A host baking machine for the Benedictine Sisters in Umuoji Benedictine life is flourishing in the abbey of Saint Scholastica, in Umuoji, Southern Nigeria. One hundred and fourteen sisters live here, following the Rule of Saint Benedict, and vocations continue to be plentiful. They live according to the renowned Benedictine principle of “Ora and Labora” …
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Nigeria – A Dark Holy Week.
Fulani herdsmen slaughter over 30 IDPs in Africa’s most populated country The latest case of violence carried out against mostly Christian farmers in Central Nigeria has left at least 35 dead. On Holy Saturday, April 8, an attack on internally displaced people (IDPs), carried out by Fulani herdsmen, caused nearly three dozen fatalities and countless …
Nigeria – Christian leader hoping new leaders will have “the common good of everybody at heart.”
Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu, the president elected of Nigeria who will be asserted in May, comes from a region famous for interreligious harmony and is married to a practicing Christian. Christians hope he will be an improvement on President Buhari, who has been accused of being soft on radical Islam and Fulani violence. Nigerian Catholics …
Nigeria-Two Nigerian seminarians recall their time in captivity
They also tell us how one of their brothers paid the price for their freedom. Pius Tabat and Stephen Amos were kidnapped, along with two other seminarians, on January 8, 2020. For several days, they were held in captivity and tortured while their captors tried to extract ransoms from their families. One of the members …
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Nigeria-If not for the faith, many victims would have taken up arms, says priest.
Father Remigius Ihyula, a project partner of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), heads the Foundation for Justice, Development and Peace, an arm of the Diocese of Makurdi in Benue State, Nigeria. The state is among the hardest hit by attacks from Fulani herdsmen, and the Foundation distributes the Church’s aid for Internally Displaced …
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Pope Francis, 10 years in solidarity with persecuted Christians
This past Wednesday, March 8, the Holy Father met with two young Nigerian Christians who were victims of jihadist persecution. (Cover photo: Pope Francis in Iraq, March 2021). On the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’ pontificate, Pontifical Charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) highlights the Holy Father’s closeness to Christians who suffer persecution …
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Religious Freedom: Biden pressured to designate Nigeria a “Country of Particular Concern.”
The fate of Nigeria’s Christians tops agenda at International Religious Freedom Summit. A bi-partisan resolution calling the Biden Administration to task for failing to protect Nigeria’s Christians took the spotlight at the third annual International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit in Washington, D.C. from January 31 to February 1, only weeks before the presidential election in …