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2025: A year of seismic shifts, in pictures

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Body of missing priest found in central Mexico

Nov 13
Associated Press

Police tape blocks the door of the rectory of St. John the Baptist Church in Fort Calhoun, Nebraska. (Credit: Josh Funk/AP.)

Man pleads guilty to killing Catholic priest who was stabbed in his rectory in Nebraska

Oct 29
Josh Funk,
Associated Press

View of Freetown, Sierra Leone, April 28, 2024. (Credit: Misper Apawu/AP.)

Murder of priest in in Sierra Leone a ‘dark moment’

Sep 4
Ngala Killian Chimtom

In this undated photo provided by The Leaven shows Rev. Arul Carasala, a pastor at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Seneca, Kan., who was fatally shot Thursday, April 3, 2025. (Credit: The Leaven via AP.)

Kansas City archdiocese mourns murdered priest from India

Apr 5
Nirmala Carvalho

Kachin Independence Army fighters walk in a jungle path from Mu Du front line to Hpalap outpost in an area controlled by the Kachin rebels in northern Kachin state, Myanmar, March 17, 2018. (Credit: Esther Htusan/AP.)

Catholic priest murdered in the Kachin area of Myanmar

Feb 17
Nirmala Carvalho

Father Paul Tatu Mothobi. (Credit: SACBC.)

Murder of priest highlights rising violence in South Africa

May 2, 2024
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Nigerian priest who was found dead is most recent to be kidnapped, killed

Jul 22, 2022
Peter Ajayi Dada

Egypt court sentences man to death for killing Coptic priest

Jun 13, 2022
Associated Press

Mexican priest killed in border community

May 20, 2022
David Agren

Priest dies from stabbing on seaside promenade in Egypt

Apr 8, 2022
Associated Press

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2025: A year of seismic shifts, in pictures

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DRC bishops’ president denounces ‘sell-off’ of country as government defends pact with US

Dec 30
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Arrests made following Christmas harassment incident at Catholic school in India

Dec 27
Nirmala Carvalho

Nigerian villagers are rattled by US airstrikes that made their homes shake and the sky glow red

Dec 27
Ope Adetayo,
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