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Freed students of St. Mary’s Catholic School in the Papiri community, upon their arrival at the government house, in Minna, Nigeria, Monday, Dec. 22, 2025. (Credit: Sunday Alamba/AP.)

Tears of joy as Nigerian families reunite with kidnapped schoolchildren

Dec 25
Associated Press

Freed students from St. Mary’s Catholic School in the Papiri community arrive at the government house, in Minna, Nigeria, Monday, Dec. 22, 2025. (Credit: Sunday Alamba/AP.)

Nigerians welcome 130 schoolchildren and teachers released after mass abduction

Dec 23
Associated Press

Freed students of St. Mary’s Catholic School in the Papiri community are reunited with their parents on Dec. 9, 2025. (Credit: Afolabi Sotunde/AP.)

130 schoolchildren and staff abducted in Nigeria last month have been released, police say

Dec 22
Dyepkazah Shibayan,
Associated Press

Aerial view of Djibo town, Burkina Faso, Feb. 18, 2021. (Credit: Sam Mednick/AP.)

Burkina Faso has become a ‘Church on the move,’ says Catholic priest

Dec 17
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, center, arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, Sept. 1, 2024. (Credit: Greg Baker/Pool Photo via AP.)

Under-fire Nigerian bishop says Christian genocide claims ‘escalated by the Trump administration’

Dec 13
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Precious Njikonye, center, the mother of a student at St. Mary's Catholic School, who was abducted by gunmen and later released, sits outside her house in Papiri, Nigeria, Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025. (Credit: Afolabi Sotunde/AP.)

‘They said they’d shoot us’: Nigerian child recalls how he was taken in mass school abduction

Dec 11
Ope Adetayo,
Afolabi Sotunde, Associated Press

Freed students of the St. Mary’s Catholic School in the Papiri community upon arrival at the government house in Minna, Nigeria, Monday, Dec. 8, 2025. (Credit: AP Photo.)

Nigerian children reunite with their parents after being released from abduction

Dec 11
Associated Press

Soldiers ride in a military vehicle during an attempted coup in Cotonou, Benin, on Dec. 7, 2025. (Credit: Associated Press.)

Faced with violence, the bishops of Benin plead for the ‘precious gift’ of peace and unity

Dec 9
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Freed students of the St. Mary's Catholic School in the Papiri community upon arrival at the government house in Minna, Nigeria on Dec. 8, 2025. (Credit: Associated Press.)

100 schoolchildren abducted in Nigeria are released but more are still held

Dec 9
Chinedu Asadu,
Yunusa Umar, Associated Press

A worried parent of abducted school children in Papiri, Nigeria, on Nov. 28, 2025. (Credit: Associated Press.)

100 schoolchildren abducted in Nigeria are released but more are still held

Dec 8
Associated Press

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