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Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu arrives for the closing session of the New Global Financial Pact Summit, June 23, 2023, in Paris. (Credit: Lewis Joly/Pool via AP.)

Another priest kidnapped in Nigeria amid on-going terrorism

Nov 8
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Priest kidnapping in Nigeria seen as part of assault on Christian ‘soft targets’

Oct 31
Ngala Killian Chimtom

People protest against economic hardship on the occasion of Nigeria’s 64th independence anniversary, in Lagos Nigeria, Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2024. (Credit: Sunday Alamba/AP.)

Bishop says Nigeria is ‘sinking and becoming a failed state’

Oct 15
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Father Hyacinth Alia, now governor of Benue State in Nigeria. (Credit: Hyacinth Alia Campaign.)

Nigerian bishops sanction priests involved in partisan politics

Oct 3
Ngala Killian Chimtom

People protest on the street of Kano, Nigeria, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. Nigeria’s leader on Sunday, Aug. 4, called for an end to mass protests against the West African nation’s economic hardship, saying the rallies have turned violent and have become politically motivated.(Credit: Sani Maikatanga/AP.)

Catholic researcher warns Nigerian leader against crackdown on protests

Oct 1
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Bishop Mark Maigida Nzukwein of Nigeria’s Catholic Diocese of Wukari. (Credit: Wukari Diocese.)

Nigerian military issues apology over assault on priest

Sep 11
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Children relax outside a Catholic church in Pemba city on the northeastern coast of Mozambique in this Monday, April, 29, 2019 photo. (Credit: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP.)

African theologians critique post-colonial states for hindering synodality

Sep 6
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Rangers patrol at the Kainji Lake National Park in Nigeria’s Niger State, February 2023. (Credit: Nigerian Conservation Foundation via AP.)

New study highlights high number of attacks on Christians in Nigeria

Sep 3
Ngala Killian Chimtom

A priest is pictured in a file photo accepting offertory gifts during Mass at St. Therese of the Child Jesus Catholic Church in Yaounde, Cameroon. (Credit: Saabi/Galbe.Com via CNS.)

To soundtrack of xylophones and drums, Africans debate limits of inculturation

Sep 2
Ngala Killian Chimtom

Police fired tear gas during a protest in Abuja, Nigeria, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024. Nigeria’s leader on Sunday, Aug. 4, called for an end to mass protests against the West African nation’s economic hardship, saying the rallies have turned violent and have become politically motivated. (Credit: Olamikan Gbemiga/AP.)

Bishops in Nigeria want return to regionalism to solve country’s problems

Aug 30
Ngala Killian Chimtom