5 guard dogs and armed escort: this is the life of the bishop of the world’s most dangerous diocese

May 23, 2023 05:03

ZENIT Staff

Bishop Matthew Ndagoso, Archbishop of Kaduna in Northern Nigeria. Photo: AIN

Local Church•Testimonies

Archbishop optimistic about new Nigerian president

According to Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission, Tinubu received 8,794,726 votes in February’s presidential election, putting him ahead of main challenger Atiku Abubakar who came second with 6,984,520.

Mar 29, 2023 04:41

John Newton

Local Church•Testimonies

12 years as leader of the largest Eastern Rite Catholic community: the Ukrainian one

Throughout these 12 years, I have felt that the Head of the Church is God, Jesus Christ, and I am only His hands, mouth, or face acting in His name, said His Beatitude Sviatoslav on the air of the United News telethon on the 12th anniversary of his enthronement.

Mar 28, 2023 00:21

ZENIT Staff

Persecuted Christians•Testimonies

Killed for teaching kidnapper the ‘Our Father’

Michael Nnadi’s killer confessed that he killed him for preaching the Gospel.

Mar 22, 2023 13:44

John Newton

Local Church•Popes•Rome•Testimonies

Five People Can Inherit From Benedict XVI

Monsignor Gänswein stressed that it’s “not about copyright stuff.” He explained that “everything that has to do with books, everything that has to do with his intellectual work has already been clarified.”

Mar 21, 2023 09:50

ZENIT Staff

Persecuted Christians•Testimonies

Raped at gunpoint. Christian teen describes her horrific captivity

Kinza Sindhu – who is just 14 years old – was abducted from her home in Lahore by five men on 19th September 2022. The Movement for Solidarity and Peace calculated that up to 1,000 young female Christians and Hindus, aged 12-25, are abducted and forced to convert to Islam every year.

Mar 19, 2023 22:01

John Newton

Photo Gallery: Leo XIV Now Has An Official Mosaic to Enrich St. Paul’s Basilica, and This Is How He Reacted When It Was Shown to Him

Just over eight months after the election of Pope Leo XIV, the Vatican Mosaic Workshop has completed the mosaic portrait for the Basilica of St. Paul Outside-the-Walls, at the request of the Archpriest of the Basilica, Cardinal James Michael Harvey.

How Jesus Christ transforms man’s relationship with God, according to Pope Leo XIV

Pope’s general audience, January 14, 2026, on the Dogmatic Constitution Dei Verbum on Divine Revelation

5 guard dogs and armed escort: this is the life of the bishop of the world’s most dangerous diocese

Catholics in South Sudan set out to help those fleeing Sudanese civil war

Priest Explains Why Demons Can’t Look at Themselves in a Mirror

Sudan: As fighting breaks out, priests remain with their flocks

Interview with the Person in Charge of Aid to the Church in Need’s Projects in Africa, to Understand the Situation in Sudan

Pope Baptizes Child Admitted in the Same Hospital as He Was

Vatican Reports to UN That One Out of Every Seven Christians Suffers Persecution

Archbishop optimistic about new Nigerian president

12 years as leader of the largest Eastern Rite Catholic community: the Ukrainian one

Killed for teaching kidnapper the ‘Our Father’

Five People Can Inherit From Benedict XVI

Raped at gunpoint. Christian teen describes her horrific captivity