A map of Nigeria. / Credit: Shutterstock
CNA Staff, Dec 14, 2023 / 13:17 pm (CNA).
More than two dozen human rights advocates are urging Congress to call on the State Department to put Nigeria back on a list of the world’s worst violators of re… […]
Nigerian priest Father Kingsley Eze was kidnapped Nov. 30, 2023, traveling to a sick call. / Credit: Catholic Diocese of Okigwe
ACI Africa, Dec 5, 2023 / 13:06 pm (CNA).
A priest from the Diocese of Okigwe in Nigeria was kidnapped Nov. 30 while… […]
Brother Godwin Eze. / Credit: Benedictine Monastery, Eruku
ACI Africa, Nov 30, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA).
Brother Peter Olarewaju recently recounted the horrific kidnapping and torture he and two other monks from a Benedictine monastery in Nigeria … […]
ACI Africa, Nov 3, 2023 / 14:15 pm A lack of security is impoverishing the Church in Nigeria, the bishop of Nigeria’s Sokoto Diocese said this week, noting that in the northern part of the country […]
U.S. Capitol Building, Washington, D.C. / Shutterstock
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 26, 2023 / 17:20 pm (CNA).
In testimony to the House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs on Wednesday, experts said that religi… […]
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ACI Prensa Staff, Aug 9, 2023 / 16:05 pm (CNA).
Bishop Martin Igwemezie Uzoukwu of Minna, Nigeria, called for prayers for the release of a priest and a seminarian who were kidnapped by armed men on Aug. 3 in the nort… […]
The campaign poster for Father Hyacinth Iormen Alia alluded to his well-known healing ministry. / Courtesy of APC campaign
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 2, 2023 / 06:00 am (CNA).
His titles are many: priest, faith healer, exorcist, psychothera… […]
Father Marcellus Nwaohuocha was freed from captivity in the Archdiocese of Jos in Nigeria June 20, 2023. / Credit: OMI
ACI Africa, Jun 21, 2023 / 08:00 am (CNA).
Father Marcellus Nwaohuocha of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, who was … […]
Father Marcellus Nwaohuocha was abducted on June 17, 2023, from the Archdiocese of Jos in Nigeria. / Credit: Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate
ACI Africa, Jun 19, 2023 / 16:30 pm (CNA).
Father Marcellus Nwaohuocha, a member of the Missionar… […]
Nigerian Bishop Wilfred Anagbe sat down with CNA in June 2023 to discuss the ongoing persecution and killings of Catholics in his country, which has grown so much in recent years that, he said, “it has become a daily occurrence.” / Credit: Photo… […]
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