A total of 3,964 people have been kidnapped in Nigeria since May 2023 and the start of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's term in office, according to risk management consulting firm SBM Intelligence Photo: El País

Pope establishes study groups between dicasteries and Synod Secretariat to study issues raised in first part of synod on synodality

The Pontiff established that «the Dicasteries of the Roman Curia collaborate, «according to their respective specific competencies, in the activity of the General Secretariat of the Synod,» by forming study groups that will initiate, with a synodal method, the in-depth study of some of the themes that emerged from the First Session of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops.