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Nigeria

Parents of kidnapped Chibok girls

John Burger

10 Years after kidnapping, 90 Chibok girls remain missing

Pope Francis during his weekly general audience at St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on March 13, 2024

I.Media

Diversity shouldn’t become isolation, Pope Francis says

Kaduna

J-P Mauro

Hundreds of Nigerian school kids abducted in broad daylight

Burned house in Mangu, Nigeria

John Burger

Witnesses share details of Nigerian Christian “genocide”

Br. Godwin, a Benedictine monk from the monastery of Eruku in Nigeria, was slain on October 18, 2023, by his kidnappers.

Cécile Séveirac

Slain Nigerian monk spent last hours helping his brother monks

NIGERIA UNREST

John Burger

Nigerian priest spends Christmas burying parishioners

Vivian Uchechi Ogu

Philip Kosloski

14-year-old Nigerian girl could be declared a martyr

Pope Francis during his weekly general audience in St. Peter's square

Isabella H. de Carvalho

Synod going green with initiative to offset CO2 emissions

Mass burial of Fulani victims

John Burger

13 Parishes closed in Nigeria – but not for lack of parishioners

Nigeria map with flag

John Burger

Herdsmen in Nigeria attacking villages before change of government

Gathering outside church in Dali, China

John Burger

There’s less religious freedom now than a year ago, says report

NIGERIA UNREST

John Burger

Nigeria: 32-page report details atrocious anti-Christian persecution

Nigerian man prays, hands, rosary

Ngala Killian Chimton

Over 50,000 massacred in Nigeria for being Christian in the last 14 years, report says

planting trees, sapling bud

J-P Mauro

Nigerian bishops to plant 5.5 million trees in just 5 years

Nigerian Catholic celebrate the Stations of the Cross

John Burger

Nigerian seminarian reveals what happened when he was kidnapped

Nigerian president-elect Bola Tinubu

John Burger

Nigeria elects new president amid hope for solutions to violence

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Patience Ibile-ACN

Fulani herdsmen killed her husband; her faith led her to forgiveness

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Ricardo Sanches

How a Nigerian priest used his final moments of life

MAP OF NIGERIA

John Burger

Backgrounder: Why is there so much Christian persecution in Nigeria?

Cécile Séveirac

The chilling but inspiring story of a Nigerian Christian family who kept the faith in the face of martyrdom

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