Tag: Nigeria

Police in northern Nigeria are investigating the murder of a priest who was killed in an apparent roadside ambush. The Diocese of Lokoja announced the...

WASHINGTON -- Religious persecution predominantly affecting Christian communities in Nigeria remains a key concern for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, the commission's...

Following the liberation of all the children and staff abducted from St. Mary's School in the Nigerian town of Papiri, the Sisters of Our...

A month after the abduction of American pilot Kevin Rideout in Niger's capital, Niamey, church and missionary sources in the West African country say...

WARSAW, Poland -- Faith is a matter of life and death in northern Nigeria, said Bishop John Bogna Bakeni of Maiduguri. Speaking with OSV News...

President Donald Trump said Oct. 31 he would place Nigeria on a religious freedom watch list in response to violence in that country perpetuated...

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...

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...

AUCHI, Nigeria -- In Nigeria's Edo state, gunmen stormed Immaculate Conception Minor Seminary in the Diocese of Auchi the night of July 10, killing...

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...