By Valentine Benjamin LAGOS, Nigeria (OSV News) — For decades, Nigeria has remained a source, transit and destination country for human trafficking in sub-Saharan Africa, with her citizens making up …
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(OSV News) — Recent kidnappings of hundreds of people in Nigeria, including almost 300 schoolchildren March 7 in Kuriga in the central part of the country, have left church leaders …
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(OSV News) — The Australian Catholic University’s Center for Liturgy offered a training program for lay liturgical ministers of the Word in Nigeria. The program, delivered online, aims to equip …
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Nigerian religious sisters provide humanitarian assistance to Cameroon refugees
by OSV Newsby OSV NewsBy Valentine Benjamin WUKARI, Nigeria (OSV News) — It was a day Andre Nkoulou from Cameroon will never forget. On Sept. 19, 2018, armed groups and government forces laid siege …
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Today’s the feast of St. Apollonia, the patron saint of dentistry and toothaches — for the gristly reason her martyrdom involved Apollonia’s teeth being pulled or broken before she was …
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Women break stereotypes to encourage interreligious dialogue in violence-torn Nigeria
by OSV Newsby OSV NewsBy Valentine Benjamin ABUJA, Nigeria (OSV News) — While religion was not originally an issue linked to conflicts in the country, deeply rooted religious hostility has in recent decades created …
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(OSV News) — The chairman of U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, has described religious freedom conditions in Nigeria as “abysmal.” Speaking July 18 at a House …
