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Fr. Rodrigue Sanon. (Courtesy photo via CNA)

World

Missing priest in Burkina Faso found dead

Catholic News Agency|Jan 21, 2021|2 Min Read

Fr. John Gbakaan, a priest of the diocese of Minna, Nigeria. (Public domain via CNA)

World

Catholic priest in Nigeria found dead after abduction

Catholic News Agency|Jan 18, 2021|3 Min Read

Father Manuel Acosta, professor of theology at El Salvador's Jose Simeón Cañas Central American University, speaks with seminarians Dec. 14, 2020 in San Ignacio, El Salvador. Father Acosta, as a theologian, was a teacher and later a colleague to three priests who were assassinated in El Salvador within the last three years. He wants civil and church authorities do more to investigate the crimes. (CNS photo/Rhina Guidos)

World

In clergy killings in El Salvador, a priest who knew them asks for justice

Rhina Guidos|Jan 13, 2021|4 Min Read

The funeral Mass of Michael Nnadi at Good Shepherd Seminary in Kaduna, Nigeria, Feb. 11, 2020. (Photo courtesy of the Diocese of Maiduguri via CNA)

World

Twenty Catholic missionaries killed worldwide in 2020

Catholic News Agency|Dec 30, 2020|3 Min Read

Bishop William Iraheta of Santiago de Maria, El Salvador, speaks in Chalatenango Nov. 26, 2020, about Father Ricardo Antonio Cortez Martínez, rector of the seminary in his diocese, who was killed execution style in August. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Subcommittee for the Church in Latin America approved a $60,000 grant request for the St. Oscar Arnulfo Romero seminary in November. Father Cortez wrote the request weeks before his assassination. (CNS photo/Rhina Guidos)

World

U.S. bishops' Latin America collection to fund seminary whose rector was killed

Rhina Guidos|Nov 30, 2020|3 Min Read

One of several images that went viral on Twitter on Tuesday, as thousands of users of the social platform called for the clergy to be burned. (Twitter #FuegoAlClero via Crux)

World

Firestorm on Twitter in Spain after trending topic calls for burning priests

Inés San Martín|Nov 25, 2020|4 Min Read

Men look at the ruins of a house in Stepanakert, Azerbaijan, Oct. 17, 2020, following recent shelling during a military conflict over the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. (CNS photo/Reuters)

World

Armenia's ambassador to Vatican stresses threat of Syrian fighters in Nagorno-Karabakh

Courtney Mares|Nov 12, 2020|6 Min Read

The flag of Mozambique. (mhojnik/CC BY 2.0 via CNA)

World

Catholic charity sends aid to Mozambique after reports of mass beheading

Courtney Mares|Nov 11, 2020|3 Min Read

(Image via CNA)

World

After teacher beheaded, some in France turn to Fr. Jacques Hamel

Catholic News Agency|Oct 19, 2020|2 Min Read

Father Pierluigi Maccalli, a member of the Society of African Missions, is pictured in a file photo baptizing a child in Bomoanga, Niger. Father Maccalli, a 59-year-old native of Crema, Italy, and and three other hostages were released in Mali after being kidnapped more than two years. (CNS photo/Raffaella Russitto, courtesy Society of African Missions)

Faith

Freed missionary priest recounts harrowing tale of kidnapping

Junno Arocho Esteves|Oct 15, 2020|4 Min Read

A statue of St. Junípero Serra, which was defaced and torn down by protesters Oct. 12, at Mission San Rafael Arcangel in San Rafael, California. (Courtesy photo via CNA)

St. Junípero Serra statue defaced, pulled down on California's Indigenous People's Day

Jonah McKeown|Oct 13, 2020|8 Min Read

(Shutterstock via CNA)

World

Religion central to Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict

Matt Hadro|Oct 13, 2020|4 Min Read

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