(OSV News) — Several gunmen abducted 32 people in Nigeria’s Kaduna state, including a catechist and his pregnant wife, in an attack that has increased fears of Christians in the country …
Kidnapping
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“Christians are being kidnapped every day, killed every day in this country,” said Emeka Umeagbalasi, director of the nongovernmental agency Intersociety.
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Community recounts unspeakable tragedy of parents awaiting news of their kidnapped children in Nigeria
by OSV Newsby OSV NewsReeling from the Nov. 21 kidnapping of more than 250 kids and teachers from a Catholic school in central Nigeria, Bishop Bulus Dauwa Yohanna of Kontagora said trauma, helplessness and …
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The rising kidnapping of foreign nationals and local Christians has left a feeling that the Sahel region is “an endangered place for missionaries.”
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Irish missionary freed after monthlong kidnapping in Haiti amid worsening gang violence
by OSV Newsby OSV NewsThe NGO for which the missionary works, Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos, reported the news with “deep gratitude and a relief that cannot be described in words.”
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An Irish parish priest described kidnapped missionary as a “wonderful, generous, caring and compassionate person.”
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“We raise our voices today to demand freedom for our colleague and friend Gena Heraty.”
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A Nigerian priest kidnapped by Boko Haram in June has been released, OSV News has learned.
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(OSV News) — As the growing violence in Haiti directly impacts more and more children and teenagers, Catholic missionaries struggle to offer safe havens to regain hope and dreams of a …
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(OSV News) — Two Nigerian women religious who were kidnapped Jan. 7 as they returned home from a meeting in Ogboji, a town in Anambra state in Nigeria, were freed …
