Cameroonian religious workers freed after month in captivity
Five priests, a nun, and three laypeople where kidnapped over a month ago in Cameroon have been freed in Nigeria.
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by bcadmin | Oct 24, 2022 | Ambazonia, Anglophone crisis, Cameroon, Church in Africa, Kidnappings, lead, News, priest kidnapped | 0 |
Five priests, a nun, and three laypeople where kidnapped over a month ago in Cameroon have been freed in Nigeria.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 23, 2022 | Anglophone crisis, Cameroon, Church in Africa, lead, News, priest kidnapped | 0 |
Cameroon’s Catholic Church will never be bullied by its persecutors, according to the spokesperson of the country’s bishops’ conference.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 22, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, murdered priest, News, Nigeria, priest kidnapped | 0 |
The body of a priest was discovered July 19, four days after he was abducted from a parish rectory in central Nigeria, an official with the Diocese of Kafanchan reported.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 4, 2022 | Church in Philippines, News, Philippines, priest kidnapped | 0 |
A Catholic priest in the Philippines was found unconscious and tied up in his car after being reported missing two days earlier, said police, who suspect he was the victim of a kidnap attempt.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 10, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, Haiti, lead, News, priest kidnapped | 0 |
Father Jean-Nicaisse Milien felt the cool barrel of a gun against his right ear. The Haitian priest and nine other people had just been kidnapped while driving through the outskirts of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, in early April.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 6, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Chaldean Catholic Church, Church in Europe, Europe, Iraqi Christians, Iraqi refugees, News, priest kidnapped, Sweden | 0 |
After enduring war and suffering in Iraq, Chaldean Catholics abroad prefer to look ahead to a brighter future in their adopted countries rather than return to their native land, said Bishop Saad Sirop Hanna
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 30, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, Haiti, News, priest kidnapped | 0 |
Kidnappers in Haiti have released five priests, two nuns and two other people who had been held for nearly three weeks, Catholic authorities said Friday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 22, 2021 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, Haiti, Kidnappings, News, priest kidnapped | 0 |
Catholic institutions including schools and universities closed Wednesday across Haiti in a three-day protest to demand the release of five priests, two nuns and two other people kidnapped more than a week ago amid a spike in violence that the government is struggling to control.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 9, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic missionaries, Catholic News Service, Islamic extremists, Mali, News, Pope Francis, priest kidnapped, Sahel, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis met with Father Pierluigi Maccalli, a member of the Society of African Missions, who was freed more than two years after he was kidnapped in Niger.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 7, 2020 | Anglophone crisis, Cameroon, Cardinal Christian Tumi, Catholic Church, Church in Africa, lead, News, priest kidnapped | 0 |
Cameroon’s Cardinal Christian Tumi was released on Friday after being kidnapped on Thursday, along with the traditional leader of his home village of Nso in the country’s troubled North West region.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 24, 2020 | Brazil, Brazilian Conference of National Bishops, Catholic Church, Church in the Americas, lead, murdered priest, News, priest kidnapped | 0 |
As Brazil deals with a rising tide of violence during 2020, cases involving two missing priests have socked the country.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 15, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic missionaries, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, News, Niger, priest kidnapped | 0 |
With his feet chained during two years of captivity somewhere near the Sahara Desert, Father Pierluigi Maccalli said he found new hope on Pentecost Sunday as he huddled near a shortwave radio to listen to Mass celebrated by Pope Francis.
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