NEWS BRIEFING: Kidnapped priest is set free
Catholic priest Father Marcellinus Obioma Okide – who was abducted on 17th September by gunmen – has…
NIGERIA: Armed men abduct priest and six others
A Catholic priest and six other people were abducted yesterday (17th September) by gunmen while travelling in…
NIGERIA: Nigerian Seminarian burnt to death by militants
A seminarian died last night when extremists torched a presbytery in Nigeria’s Kafanchan Diocese. The incident took…
NIGERIA: Abducted priest and seminarian released
A priest and a seminarian kidnapped in Nigeria’s Middle Belt have been released after three weeks in…
NIGERIA: Killings of Christians ‘going on and on’, with no arrests made
After 21 Christians were killed and more than 10 critically injured by Fulani militants in Nigeria last…
NIGERIA: Bishop rejects anxieties new president will Islamise Nigeria
A leading bishop has dismissed fears being expressed by Nigeria’s Christians that the new government has an…
UK/NIGERIA: Friend of murdered priest pays heartfelt tribute
A UK-based priest has paid tribute to “an extraordinary soul” from Nigeria who was gunned down barely…
UK/NIGERIA: Killings of Christians on the rise
The number of Nigerian Christians killed or abducted because of their faith has drastically increased since 2020,…
NIGERIA: Catholic priests condemn sectarian comments by ex-Kano Governor
Nigerian priests have condemned a speech in which the former governor of Kaduna said his party was…
UK/NIGERIA: Call for justice presented at 10 Downing Street
A year to the day following the Pentecost Sunday church massacre in Nigeria, a petition calling for…
NIGERIA: Bishop reflects on evils of terrorism and lack of justice a year after church massacre
On the first anniversary of the Pentecost Sunday 2022 church attack in Nigeria, the bishop of the…
NIGERIA: Call to beatify the Owo martyrs
A Nigerian priest has called for the beatification of more than 40 Christians who were killed in…