In a statement issued June 18, the Nigerian bishops denounced the “almost daily bloodshed” in the West African nation, including the recent killing of civilians.
Regional and global experts as well as proponents of religious freedom gathered June 17 for the first International Religious Freedom Summit hosted in Africa.
In a statement, the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin’s leadership in Nigeria provided details of the car accident that occurred in Nigeria’s Enugu state.
Bishops in the Democratic Republic of Congo expressed their solidarity with victims of the recent floods and landslides that struck the capital city of Kinshasa.
A seminarian abducted on March 3 from a parish rectory in the Nigerian Diocese of Auchi was murdered by his abductors, an official of the diocese has confirmed.
IHM Secretary General in Nigeria Sister Maria Sobenna Ikeotuonye announced the abduction of Sisters Vincentia Maria Nwankwo and Grace Mariette Okoli.
After the death of Nigerian priest Father Tobias Chukwujekwu Okonkwo the day after Christmas, the diocese appealed for prayers “for his eternal joy.”
Father Thomas Oleghe, the oldest priest in Nigeria, has passed away at the age of 104.
Sister Francisca Ngozi Uti, the founder and executive director of the Centre for Women Studies and Intervention in Abuja, Nigeria, won he 2024 Opus Prize.
“A homily well prepared should last around 10 minutes. A university lecture of 45 minutes is for a different setting,” Cardinal Francis Arinze said.
Father Thomas Oyode, the rector of the Immaculate Conception Minor Seminary in Nigeria’s Diocese of Auchi who was abducted Oct. 27, has been freed.
Edmond Bahati Mbarushimana, a journalist for Radio Maria Goma, was hailed as “a faithful servant, committed and conscientious in everything he did.”
Two Catholic priests serving in Burkina Faso have spoken about the threats that terrorist groups pose to Christians in the country.
Ghanaian-born Cardinal Peter Turkson gave a lecture to open the new school year at the Nairobi, Kenya-based Hekima University College.
Bishops expressed concern about a rising trend of deviations from established liturgical norms, warning that such practices are a source of scandal.
The number of Catholic priests serving Nigeria’s Diocese of Nsukka has surpassed 400 following the ordination of 23 new priests on Aug. 10.
In a statement following their July 1–4 meeting on safeguarding children and vulnerable adults, the bishops said they are “deeply saddened by the pain caused by abuse.”
Members of the Sudan Catholic Bishops’ Conference released a statement following their June 27–29 meeting expressing alarm about the country’s civil war.
The Archdiocese of Kaduna is appealing for the “urgent and safe release” of Father Gabriel Ukeh, who was abducted from his parish rectory on June 9.
Archbishop Hubertus van Megen recently highlighted some of the weaknesses of the Church in Europe, which he said reflect an orientation toward secularism.