![Kidnapped priest Father Marcellinus Obioma Okide.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0918Nigeria-e1695052980178.jpg)
NEWS BRIEFING: Kidnapped priest is set free
Catholic priest Father Marcellinus Obioma Okide – who was abducted on 17th September by gunmen – has…
![Bishop Edward Kawa at the statue of Pope Saint John Paul II in Lviv.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0922Ukraine.jpg)
UKRAINE: As humanitarian aid burns, bishop implores: ‘Don’t forget Ukraine’
A bishop in Ukraine has decried the destruction of thousands of pounds worth of humanitarian aid by…
![Jihadists in Cabo Delgado.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0921Mozambique-e1695371210116.jpeg)
MOZAMBIQUE: Slaughter of the innocent
At least 11 Christians in Mozambique were massacred when jihadists stormed into their village and separated them…
![A a summer camp for young people in Lebanon.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0920Syria_Lebanon-e1695225700903.jpg)
SYRIA/LEBANON: Mass exodus threatens future of Christianity
Desperate Christians in Syria and Lebanon “no longer have confidence in their country” and “there is no…
![Parishioners in the Apostolic Vicariate of Mongo, Chad.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0919Chad-e1695133063544.jpg)
CHAD: Church reaches out as Sudanese refugees pour in
A bishop from Chad has highlighted the desperate plight of more than 100,000 refugees flooding into his…
![Kidnapped priest Father Marcellinus Obioma Okide.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0918Nigeria-e1695052980178.jpg)
NIGERIA: Armed men abduct priest and six others
A Catholic priest and six other people were abducted yesterday (17th September) by gunmen while travelling in…
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IRAQ: University education offering a future for Iraq’s Christian community
A scholarship programme at an Iraqi Catholic university – which is now entering its second year –…
![Kaduna: Destruction caused by a Fulani attack in 2017](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/1217Nigeria_2-e1545131394716.jpg)
NIGERIA: Nigerian Seminarian burnt to death by militants
A seminarian died last night when extremists torched a presbytery in Nigeria’s Kafanchan Diocese. The incident took…
![An attack on Khopibung village in the Saikul sub-division of Kangpokpi District, , which saw 44 houses and the Catholic church torched on 12th June 2023.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/0906India-e1694009197871.jpeg)
UK/INDIA: Catholic charity denounces “tipp-exing of religion” from Manipur conflict
A Catholic charity has strongly condemned narratives of the recent conflicts in Manipur which eliminate all mention…
![A man with a Nigerian flag in Port Harcourt, Nigeria (© Emmanuel Ikwuegbu)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0831Nigeria-scaled-e1693492723147.jpg)
NIGERIA: Abducted priest and seminarian released
A priest and a seminarian kidnapped in Nigeria’s Middle Belt have been released after three weeks in…
![The Little Sisters of Mary Immaculate arriving in Dómuè, Mozambique.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0825Mozambique-e1692959071945.jpg)
MOZAMBIQUE: Religious Sisters welcomed back after 40 years
Four decades after the last female congregation left Mozambique because of anti-Catholic hostility following independence from Portugal,…
![The aftermath of an arson attack on St Paul’s Parish and Pastoral Training Centre in Sangaiprou, Imphal.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0824India-e1692879437588.jpg)
INDIA: 50,000 people displaced and 150 killed
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced and more than 150 died after hundreds of villages…