Nigeria Archives

Nigerian bishops: All church hospitals can be used for COVID-19 patients

Apr 10, 2020

Nigeria’s Catholic hospitals and clinics can all be used to treat COVID-19 patients, the country’s bishops told the presidential task team set up to combat the spread of the coronavirus.

By Peter Ajayi Dada

Grassroots group to host Good Friday prayer marathon for persecuted Christians

Apr 7, 2020

The Good Friday prayer event is set to start at sunrise Jerusalem on Holy Friday and to end at sunrise Jerusalem on Saturday, is organized by Save the Persecuted Christians (STPC).

By Inés San Martín

Catholic aid worker calls on leaders to be ‘factual, accurate’ after chloroquine overdose in Nigeria

Mar 28, 2020

An official for a Catholic aid agency in Nigeria says international leaders “have a moral obligation to ensure that information they pass out to the public is factual, accurate and evidence-based,” after three Nigerians overdosed on chloroquine after President Donald Trump endorsed it as a treatment for COVID-19.

By Crux Staff

Nun, security guard among those killed in Nigerian gas explosion

Mar 17, 2020

The principal of a Catholic girls’ school was among 15 people killed in the impact of an explosion at a gas processing plant in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital.

By Peter Ajayi Dada

Priest cites religious freedom violations in northern Nigeria

Mar 11, 2020

A priest who serves as director of the Justice, Development and Peace Commission in his diocese in northern Nigeria cited an ongoing series of religious freedom violations in his region of the country, which is majority Muslim.

By Mark Pattison

Bishops seek international help for Nigeria to fight insecurity

Feb 27, 2020

Nigeria’s bishops called on the international community to help the West African country in its fight against ethnic insecurity and terrorist groups such as Boko Haram.

By Peter Ajayi Dada