Nigerian bishops Archives

Nigeria facing ‘systematic, planned, calculated’ genocide of Christians

Jun 29, 2020

Nigeria has had over 50,000 people killed since 2009 due to the Boko Haram insurgency, which has also displaced over 2 million people. In the country’s “Middle Belt” – where the Muslim North meets the Christian South – Muslim Fulani bands have killed thousands of Christians.

By Charles Collins

Nigerian bishop: Murdered seminarian had courage of a martyr

May 14, 2020

A murdered Nigerian seminarian had the courage of a martyr, his bishop said after three men were arrested for murder and kidnapping.

By Catholic News Service

Nigerian bishop rejected by Ahiara diocese installed as Bishop of Ekwulobia

May 5, 2020

A Nigerian bishop who was blocked from taking over the Diocese of Ahiara for years was last week installed as Bishop of Ekwulobia, hopefully ending a crisis that has shaken the Church in Africa’s most populous nation. Bishop Peter Ebere Okpaleke was appointed to Ahiara by Pope Benedict XVI in

By Inés San Martín

Despite problems caused by corruption, bishop says Nigerians ‘coping well’ with corona crisis

Apr 13, 2020

Nigeria’s people are “coping well” in the face of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, according to one bishop.

By Crux Staff

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

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