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Priest, six others killed by armed gunmen at Nigerian parish
- Apr 1, 2021
Father Ferdinand Fanen Ngugban and six others died of gunshot wounds after armed gunmen invaded the grounds of St. Paul Parish in Ayetwar March 30, said the Diocese of Katsina-Ala.
Franciscan friar is shot at Mexican sanctuary
- Mar 17, 2021
A young Franciscan friar was shot at one of western Mexico’s most important Catholic sites in what local church officials are calling “an isolated incident.”
Burkina Faso: Bishop mourns death of missing priest
- Jan 22, 2021
The body of a priest was discovered in a remote forest in Burkina Faso four days after he was declared missing.
U.S. church aid to seminary helps continue work of slain Salvadoran rector
- Jan 17, 2021
Just weeks before his killing, Father Ricardo Cortez had written to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops requesting economic help for his beloved seminary, damaged by tropical storms that barreled through Central America in 2020 and struggling from the economic effects of COVID-19.
In clergy killings in El Salvador, a priest who knew them asks for justice
- Jan 14, 2021
El Salvador, in recent years, has had one of the highest crime rates in the world for a nation not at war.
U.S. bishops’ Latin America collection to fund seminary whose rector was killed
- Dec 1, 2020
Among the projects approved during an early November meeting of U.S. bishops was aid to a seminary in El Salvador whose rector was killed execution style in August on the side of a road as he headed to his home diocese to celebrate Mass.
Kidnapping, murder of clergy shock Brazilians as violence soars
- Oct 24, 2020
As Brazil deals with a rising tide of violence during 2020, cases involving two missing priests have socked the country.
Papal Almoner says slain Italian priest gave ‘ultimate act of love’
- Sep 19, 2020
The funeral on Friday in Valtellina, Italy, for Father Roberto Malgesini was a testimony of how he lived: Modest, simple and – just as the family wanted – private.
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