![Bishop Oliver Dashe Doeme of Maiduguri](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/1017UK_Nigeria_web-scaled-e1697531061301.jpg)
UNITED KINGDOM & NIGERIA: Visionary Bishop encourages Catholics to join Rosary campaign
A bishop who received a vision of Jesus telling him to pray the Rosary to restore peace…
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UNITED KINGDOM: Papal Nuncio to celebrate Mass for persecuted Christians
The Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain will be presiding at this year’s #RedWednesday Mass in London, a…
![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…
![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…
![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…
![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 aftermath of the attack in Heipang (© Masara Kim)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0818Nigeria-scaled.jpg)
NIGERIA: Killings of Christians ‘going on and on’, with no arrests made
After 21 Christians were killed and more than 10 critically injured by Fulani militants in Nigeria last…
![Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/0806Nigeria-e1622035798403.jpg)
NIGERIA: Bishop rejects anxieties new president will Islamise Nigeria
A leading bishop has dismissed fears being expressed by Nigeria’s Christians that the new government has an…
![Father Charles Igechi (© Secretary of the Archbishop of Benin City Father Francis Morah)](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0724UK_Nigeria-e1690210820233.jpg)
UK/NIGERIA: Friend of murdered priest pays heartfelt tribute
A UK-based priest has paid tribute to “an extraordinary soul” from Nigeria who was gunned down barely…
![The aftermath of an attack by a Boko Haram suicide bomber on a church in Kaduna.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0704UK_Nigeria-e1688466968569.jpg)
UK/NIGERIA: Killings of Christians on the rise
The number of Nigerian Christians killed or abducted because of their faith has drastically increased since 2020,…
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NIGERIA: Catholic priests condemn sectarian comments by ex-Kano Governor
Nigerian priests have condemned a speech in which the former governor of Kaduna said his party was…
![Submitting the petition at No. 10 (from left to right): Father Dominic Robinson, Father Matthew Madewa, Fiona Bruce MP, Baroness Caroline Cox, Caroline Hull, John Pontifex and Mike Watts.](https://acnuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/0606UK_Nigeria_a-scaled-e1686060181438.jpg)
UK/NIGERIA: Call for justice presented at 10 Downing Street
A year to the day following the Pentecost Sunday church massacre in Nigeria, a petition calling for…