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Passengers are processed at the immigration section after arriving at Asmara International Airport in Asmara, Eritrea, July 18, 2018. Eritrean authorities are continuing to detain Catholic Bishop Fikremariam Hagos Tsalim of Segheneity, who was arrested at the airport Oct. 15, 2022. (CNS photo/Tiksa Negeri, Reuters)

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Eritrean authorities detain Catholic bishop, but won't say why

Fredrick Nzwili|Oct 18, 2022|3 Min Read

Displaced people fleeing the war in Cameroon. (Public Domain via CNA)

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Catholic church burned, priests and religious sister kidnapped in war-torn Cameroon

Catholic News Agency|Sep 18, 2022|2 Min Read

Formerly detained Father Oliver Opara (left) with Ummi Hassan; Bishop Matthew Kukah of the Diocese of Sokoto (not an abductee); Father Stephen Ojapah; and Hassan Fareed Hassan after the four were released from being held captive by terrorists. (Photo courtesy of the Diocese of Sokoto via CNA)

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Freed Nigerian priest recounts details of his kidnapping by insurgents

Douglas Burton|Sep 7, 2022|6 Min Read

Sister Suellen Tennyson, 83, a U.S. member of the Marianites of the Holy Cross, is pictured in a 2007 photo. Sister Tennyson, a native of New Orleans, was kidnapped late April 4 or early April 5, 2022, after armed attackers broke into the convent on the parish compound in Yago, Burkina Faso. (CNS photo/Christine Bordelon, Clarion Herald)

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Sister Suellen freed after five months of captivity in Burkina Faso

Peter Finney Jr.|Aug 31, 2022|4 Min Read

Sr. Johannes Nwodo (R), Sr. Christabel Echemazu (L), Sr. Liberata Mbamalu (C), and Sr. Benita Agu, freed from captivity in Nigeria's Imo State, Aug. 23, 2022. (Courtesy photo via CNA)

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Kidnapped Nigerian religious sisters released

Jonah McKeown|Aug 23, 2022|2 Min Read

Father Stephen Ojapah and Father Oliver Okpara, who were abducted in Nigeria’s Sokoto diocese on May 25, 2022. (Father Chris Omotosho via CNA)

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Gunmen kidnap 2 Catholic priests in Nigeria

Catholic News Agency|May 26, 2022|2 Min Read

A man holds up a sign against killings in southern Kaduna state and insecurities in Nigeria during a protest in Abuja Aug. 15, 2020. The Archdiocese of Kaduna announced May 12, 2022, that Father Joseph Aketeh Bako, a priest kidnapped in March, was killed by his captors. (CNS photo/Afolabi Sotunde, Reuters)

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Nigeria: Kidnapped priest died in captivity

Junno Arocho Esteves|May 12, 2022|2 Min Read

Three Marianite Sisters: Suellen Tennyson, Pascaline Tougma and Pauline Dourin, are pictured in an undated photo near the clinic where they serve in Yago, Burkina Faso. Sister Tennyson, 83, an American, was kidnapped late April 4 or early April 5 after armed attackers broke into the convent on the parish compound. (CNS photo/courtesy Marianites of the Holy Cross)

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U.S. nun, 83, kidnapped in Burkina Faso

Peter Finney Jr.|Apr 6, 2022|4 Min Read

Filipino Father Leoben Peregrino, 58, who disappeared April 1, 2022, was found unconscious April 3 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. Father Peregrino, of Most Holy Rosary Parish in Rosario, Philippines, is pictured in an undated photo. (CNS photo/UCAN)

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Missing Filipino priest found, unconscious and bound, after two days

Catholic News Service|Apr 4, 2022|2 Min Read

A disaster response trailer sits outside the home office of Christian Aid Ministries in Millersburg, Ohio, Oct. 17, 2021. Sixteen Americans and one Canadian from the group were kidnapped in Haiti Oct. 16. (CNS photo/Aaron Josefczyk, Reuters)

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After latest kidnappings, archbishop says ‘worst Haiti has been for a long time’

John Lavenburg|Oct 19, 2021|5 Min Read

Pope Francis blesses Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez Argot, a member of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate, at the end of Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 10, 2021. The sister, a missionary from Colombia, was kidnapped in Mali in 2017 and released in early October. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

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Pope blesses nun held captive nearly five years by insurgents in Mali

Carol Glatz|Oct 10, 2021|3 Min Read

Freed: Msgr. Julius Agbortoko Abbor, vicar general of Cameroon’s Mamfe diocese. (Diocese of Mamfe)

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Catholic priest in Cameroon freed after three days in captivity

Catholic News Agency|Sep 2, 2021|3 Min Read

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