![IDPs in Bokkos, Plateau State, Nigeria.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/0716Nigeria-e1721142413391.jpg)
NIGERIA: Leaders accused of inaction amid ongoing killings and food crisis
Eight months after hundreds of Christians were massacred on Christmas Eve and three months after another carnage…
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NIGERIA: Kidnapped priest goes free
Nigerian priest Father Mikah Suleiman was released last night (Sunday, 7th July) after more than two weeks…
![The ruins of the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Mocímboa da Praia, Mozambique.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/0627Mozambique-e1719492223917.jpg)
MOZAMBIQUE: Church destroyed but Christian community standing strong
Four years after Islamist extremists destroyed their church, Catholics in a north-east Mozambique parish are still gathering…
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DRC: Bishop calls on authorities to end killings after latest slaughter
A Congolese bishop has made a fresh plea for the country’s leaders to stop the armed conflict…
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NEWS BRIEFING: Gunmen abduct Nigerian priest and parishioner
Unidentified armed men kidnapped a Catholic priest and another individual Sunday (16th June) morning after Mass in…
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NEWS BRIEFING: Kidnapped Nigerian priest released
A Catholic priest abducted from his parish in Kaduna State, north-west Nigeria on Sunday (9th June) was…
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NEWS BRIEFING: Another Nigerian priest abducted
Unknown assailants kidnapped a Catholic priest from his parish in Kaduna State, north-west Nigeria on Sunday (9th…
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IRAQ: Christian community still needing help 10 years after Mosul invasion
On the 10th anniversary of Daesh (ISIS) seizing Mosul – heralding its invasion of the Nineveh Plains…
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NIGERIA: Church ‘always full’ two years after massacre despite lack of justice
Two years on, terrorists suspected of murdering more than 40 worshippers during Pentecost Sunday Mass in south-west…
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NEWS BRIEFING: Blasphemy victim dies in hospital
Christian man Nazir Gill Masih died in hospital today (3rd June) after being beaten by a mob…
![Archbishop Joseph Arshad and Senator Tahir Khalil Sindu visiting the Sargodha police headquarters after the attack.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/0528Pakistan-e1716892902527.jpeg)
PAKISTAN: Police accuse brutally assaulted Christian man of blasphemy
Pakistan’s police have launched a blasphemy probe into a Christian man, two days after a violent mob…
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NIGERIA: Fourth priest abducted in five months
Extremists kidnapped another Catholic priest in Nigeria on Wednesday morning (15th May) – bringing the number of…