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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

Nigerian bishop urges nonviolence in response to terrorist killings
- Feb 12, 2020
Describing a seminarian who was kidnapped and killed by terrorists as a martyr, a Nigerian bishop urged worshippers at the young man’s funeral to uphold their faith and demand that the country’s president protect people of all faiths in violence-prone areas of the country.

By Catholic News Service
Seminarian murdered by kidnappers in Nigeria
- Feb 3, 2020
On Feb. 1, an 18-year-old seminarian was found murdered in Nigeria, the latest in a string of attacks against Christians in Nigeria, who have been targeted by terrorist groups like Boko Haram.

By Junno Arocho Esteves
Nigerian bishop condemns execution of Christian pastor
- Jan 29, 2020
Bishop Stephen Dami Mamza of Yola has condemned the execution of a Christian pastor who had pleaded for his life in a video just days earlier.

By Peter Ajayi Dada

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