Tag: Nigeria
Bishop: Survival of Christian communities in Nigeria depends on security, justice
WARSAW, Poland -- Faith is a matter of life and death in northern Nigeria, said Bishop John Bogna Bakeni of Maiduguri.
Speaking with OSV News...
Trump places Nigeria on religious freedom watch list, threatens military action
President Donald Trump said Oct. 31 he would place Nigeria on a religious freedom watch list in response to violence in that country perpetuated...
Nigerian church leaders have mixed reaction to Trump threat of action...
Nigeria's return to the U.S. list of countries of "particular concern" over Christian persecution has drawn mixed reactions from church leaders and triggered a...
Kidnapped Nigerian priest who served in Alaska is now free
A Nigerian priest kidnapped by Boko Haram in June has been released, OSV News has learned.
Maria Lozano, press contact for Aid to the Church...
One dead and three abducted in attack on Nigerian seminary: ‘It...
AUCHI, Nigeria -- In Nigeria's Edo state, gunmen stormed Immaculate Conception Minor Seminary in the Diocese of Auchi the night of July 10, killing...
Sources say Nigerian priest Father Alphonsus Afina still being held captive:...
A Nigerian priest who previously served in Alaska remains missing after being captured by Boko Haram operatives in his homeland, OSV News has learned.
Father...
21-year-old seminarian Andrew Peter kidnapped and murdered in Nigeria: ‘Life has...
A young seminarian has become the latest victim of killings in Nigeria, the West African country where attack and kidnapping of Catholic clergy is...
Meet the religious sister battling the mental health crisis in Nigeria
UYO, Nigeria -- In March 2000, 46-year-old Aniette Asuquo began experiencing severe mental health struggles that led to a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Initially, she...
Nigerians deal with ‘funerals and coffins’ as part of landscape in...
Gov. Caleb Mutfwang of Nigeria's Plateau state declared a week of mourning Jan. 1-8 to honor the deaths of at least 200 Christians killed...
More than 30 defenseless Christians including parish priest abducted in Nigeria...
In another chapter of an "evil scheme" plaguing Nigeria, the southern Enugu Diocese asked for prayers for Father Marcellinus Obioma Okide, who was kidnapped...