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  • Priest, six others killed by armed gunmen at Nigerian parish

    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.

    By Peter Ajayi Dada
  • Franciscan friar is shot at Mexican sanctuary

    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.”

    By Catholic News Service
  • Burkina Faso: Bishop mourns death of missing priest

    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.

    By Junno Arocho Esteves
  • U.S. church aid to seminary helps continue work of slain Salvadoran rector

    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.

    By Rhina Guidos
  • In clergy killings in El Salvador, a priest who knew them asks for justice

    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.

    By Rhina Guidos
  • U.S. bishops’ Latin America collection to fund seminary whose rector was killed

    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.

    By Rhina Guidos
  • Kidnapping, murder of clergy shock Brazilians as violence soars

    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.

    By Eduardo Campos Lima
  • Papal Almoner says slain Italian priest gave ‘ultimate act of love’

    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.

    By Paulina Guzik
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