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by 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 | Jun 13, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the Middle East, Coptic Orthodox Church, Egypt, murdered priest, News | 0 |
An Egyptian court Saturday sentenced a man to die for the April stabbing death of a Coptic Christian priest in an attack that shocked the Arab world’s most populous nation.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 20, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Mexico, murdered priest, News | 0 |
A Catholic priest who directed a migrant shelter was killed in the Mexican border state of Baja California, reinforcing Mexico’s reputation as a murderous country for clergy.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 8, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the Middle East, Coptic Church, Egypt, murdered priest, News | 0 |
A knife-wielding man mortally wounded a Coptic priest during an attack at the popular seaside promenade in Alexandria on Thursday evening, Egypt’s interior ministry said.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 9, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, Father Jacques Hamel, France, murdered priest, News | 0 |
Four men were convicted in Paris Wednesday of terrorist conspiracy after the murder of a Catholic priest in a Normandy church in 2016, an attack claimed by the Islamic State group.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 8, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Honduras, murdered priest, News | 0 |
Honduran church leaders have called for a thorough investigation into the abduction and murder of a priest in the Diocese of San Pedro Sula, a crime causing outrage in the Central American country.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 14, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, Father Jacques Hamel, France, Islamic State, murdered priest, News | 0 |
Four people go on trial on Monday on charges of conspiring to commit a terrorist act in connection with the murder of a Catholic priest inside a Normandy church in 2016.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 31, 2022 | anti-Christian violence, Associated Press, Church in Asia, lead, murdered priest, News, Pakistan | 0 |
Pakistani police said they widened their manhunt Monday, searching for two unidentified assailants who shot and killed an Anglican priest and wounded another the previous day in the country’s northwest.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 22, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Kenya, murdered priest, News | 0 |
The 2019 murder of a Kenyan priest, Father Michael Maingi Kyengo, has taken a new twist with a suspect saying he killed the cleric over sexual assaults.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 9, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, France, French bishops, French Catholics, murdered priest, News | 0 |
A Rwandan immigrant awaiting trial for the arson of the cathedral in Nantes turned himself into police for killing the French provincial of the Montfort Missionaries.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 18, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, Kenya, murdered priest, News | 0 |
Police in Kenya arrested a suspect accused of brutally murdering a Catholic priest in 2019.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 15, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Mexico, Church in the Americas, Mexico, murdered priest, News | 0 |
A Franciscan priest was killed in a hail of gunfire as he returned from celebrating Mass and providing sacraments in a rural Mexican village known for drug cartel conflicts.
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