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Just weeks after an attack on a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria on Pentecost Sunday, the diocese's bishop is urging the international community to speak out. ....
Just weeks after an attack on a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria on Pentecost Sunday, the diocese's bishop is urging the international community to speak out. ....
The funeral of Father Vitus Borogo in the Archdiocese of Kaduna, June 30, 2022. / Photos courtesy of the Archdiocese of KadunaWashington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 14, 2022 / 13:27 pm (CNA).Father Peter Amodu was supposed to say the 5 p.m. Mass at Holy Ghost Parish in southern Nigeria on July 6.He never arrived.Gunmen kidnapped the Catholic priest as he walked to the church along the Otukpo/Ugbokolo highway in Benue State. He was released unharmed four days later, the chancellor of the Diocese of Oktupo confirmed.Amodu s abduction was no isolated crime. He is one of at least 18 Nigerian Catholic priests kidnapped since the beginning of this year, according to a tally by Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), a Catholic nonprofit organization. Three of the priests were killed.More troubling, the kidnappings seem to be escalating. There were five priests abducted in Nigeria in the first week of July alone, ACN noted.The alarming trend begs the question: Why are Catholic priests being targeted. ....
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Bishop Jude Arogundade in Washington, D.C., on June 30, 2022 outside the Belmont House, where he attended a breakfast social with U.S. congressmen and religious freedom advocates. / Shannon Mullen/CNAWashington D.C., Jul 6, 2022 / 09:36 am (CNA).Jude Arogundade was serving as a parish priest in upstate New York on Sept. 11, 2001 when a pair of hijacked airliners brought down the Twin Towers.Along the Hudson River, a short drive from his parish, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Elmsford, a mile-square village in Westchester County, he could see the dark plume of ash and smoke rising from Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan.Friends and family back in his native Nigeria flooded him with calls. Was he safe? What was happening? In the days and weeks that followed, priests in the Archdiocese of New York were inundated with grieving families and huge crowds at Masses. Shaken and afraid, people filled the pews and jammed the side aisles. They came seeking consolation, healing, an. ....