Category: Church attack

Gunmen attack Nigerian church during service, killing 2

by bcadmin | Oct 18, 2022 | Associated Press, Church attack, Church in Africa, News, Nigeria | 0 |

Gunmen attacked a church in north-central Nigeria during a service, killing a woman and her young daughter, a government official said Monday as the hunt for the suspects intensified.

Nigeria funeral for church attack victims draws anger, tears

by bcadmin | Jun 18, 2022 | Associated Press, Church attack, Church in Africa, News, Nigeria | 0 |

Nigeria held a state funeral Friday for nearly two dozen of the worshippers killed by gunmen at a church service earlier this month as church officials urged authorities to take swift action to avoid future tragedies.

Nigerian priest says he shielded parishioners like chicks during massacre

by bcadmin | Jun 18, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church attack, Church in Africa, News, Nigeria, terrorist attack | 0 |

Father Andrew Adeniyi Abayomi was in the sacristy of St. Francis Xavier Church after Mass when parishioners began running in different directions.

Cardinal to Nigerian grandparent: After massacre, your presence reassures

by bcadmin | Jun 18, 2022 | Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, Catholic News Service, Church attack, Church in Africa, Grandparents, News, Nigeria | 0 |

South African Cardinal Wilfrid Napier told a Nigerian that, even if grandparents are fearful after the recent Pentecost massacre, their presence is a reassurance to younger generations to “Be not afraid.”

Brutal attack on worshippers in Nigeria is called attack on ‘entire church’

by bcadmin | Jun 12, 2022 | Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Catholic News Service, Church attack, Church in Africa, News, Nigeria, terrorist attack | 0 |

The brutal attack on people at a Catholic church in Nigeria on Pentecost Sunday is “an attack on the entire church,” said a U.S. official of Aid to the Church in Need, an international Catholic charity.

Bishops lament that Nigerians are not safe anywhere after church attack

by bcadmin | Jun 6, 2022 | Archbishop Lucius Ugorji, Archdiocese of Owerri, Church attack, Featured, Mass, News, Nigeria, Nigeria's Catholic bishops, Pentecost, U.S. & World News | 0 |

Condemning the actions of gunmen who attacked a Catholic Church as parishioners gathered for Mass on the feast of Pentecost, Nigeria’s Catholic bishops lamented that nowhere is safe in the country after the incident left dozens of people dead.

Man sentenced to life after failed French church bombing

by bcadmin | Nov 6, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church attack, Church in Europe, France, Islamic State, News, Terrorism | 0 |

A Paris criminal court sentenced a 29-year-old Algerian man Thursday to life in prison for killing a woman and trying to bomb a church near the French capital in a failed 2015 attack that investigators said was plotted by Islamic State group extremists in Syria.

Horrified by deadly attacks, French Muslims protect church

by bcadmin | Nov 6, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Catholic-Muslim relations, Christian-Muslim relations, Church attack, Church in Europe, France, News | 0 |

A group of young Muslim men gathered to stand guard outside their town’s cathedral for the All Saints’ holiday weekend, to symbolically protect it and show solidarity with Catholic churchgoers.

French bishops ‘cleanse’ Nice basilica after attack

by bcadmin | Nov 2, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church attack, Church in Europe, France, Islamic extremists, News, Nice | 0 |

French bishops conducted a “penitential rite of reparation” inside a church in which three people were murdered in late October.

French churches honor Nice attack victims; 6 detained

by bcadmin | Nov 2, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church attack, Church in Europe, France, Islamic extremists, News, Nice | 0 |

Churches around France held Sunday services honoring three people killed in an Islamic extremist attack at Notre Dame Basilica in the city of Nice that pushed the country into high security alert, while police questioned six suspects in the case.

Former Malaysian leader says remarks on French attacks taken out of context

by bcadmin | Oct 30, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church attack, Church in Asia, France, Islamic extremists, Malaysia, News | 0 |

Former Malaysian leader Mahathir Mohamad said Friday he is disgusted because his comments on attacks by Muslim extremists in France had been taken out of context.

Video shows man tackling deacon during Saturday evening Mass

by bcadmin | Feb 25, 2020 | Archdiocese of Miami, Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church attack, Church in the US, Florida, News | 0 |

A man was captured on surveillance video tackling a deacon who was conducting a Saturday evening service at a Florida church.