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Between 2015 and 2025, at least 212 Catholic priests were kidnapped in Nigeria Photo: ACN International

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Pope invites us to pray for Christian communities living in areas of war or conflict: here is the video

On the eve of his departure for Türkiye and Lebanon, the Pope invites us to pray for Christian communities who live in war-torn or conflict zones. Leo XIV invites them to not feel abandoned and to be “seeds of peace, reconciliation and hope.” He then asks all Christians in the world “to not fall into indifference” and to be “builders of unity.”

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Empty Tabernacles and Closed Schools to Protest Kidnappings in Cameroon

The Archbishop of Bamenda has declared in his Pastoral Letter that the Church’s position is clear: it never pays ransoms. The ultimatum, issued by the Archbishop, states that if the kidnapped priest is not released, all parishes, schools, and Catholic institutions in the Ndop Deanery — in the northern part of the diocese where the kidnapping took place –, will be closed.

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Nigeria: epicenter of a crisis of extermination against Christians. Another village massacred

One of the most haunting testimonies came from Christiana Joseph, who woke on the morning of the attack preparing to attend the 6 a.m. Mass. She remembers the sudden roar of engines circling her compound. Moments later, bursts of gunfire filled the air. By the time silence returned, her husband of fourteen years, John, lay lifeless on the ground. “They surrounded us,” she recounted. “It lasted only minutes, but it destroyed everything.”