This feature raises alarm over the dwindling numbers of those enrolling in seminaries, novitiates, and young people attending Holy Mass in Europe, stressing that the empty pews are a metaphor for a Church in need of oxygen.
Reports from late 2025 and early 2026 underline that while mass abductions by terrorist groups like Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) persist, local religious leaders have remained critical voices for negotiation and restorative justice.
The Catholic diocese of Nnewi¸ southeast Nigeria, has pushed back a claim from a Knight that a deceased politician who contributed significantly to the building of Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral was not acknowledged during the recently concluded dedication ceremony.
Barrister Zannah Mustapha, a Borno-based Islamic cleric, lawyer, and educationist, has built a free school for orphans of slain soldiers and Boko Haram in Maiduguri, Borno state.
On 17 January 2026, Nigerians woke up to the gruesome murder of 35-year-old Fatima Abubakar and her six children: Maimuna, 17 years, Aisha, 16, Bashir, 13, Abubakar, 10, Faruk, 7, and Abdussalam, 1
The Nigerian government has been accused of complicity in the protection of lives and livelihoods, with a call for local communities to take to self-defence.
Jesus’ heart, which was pierced with a lance (cf. John 19:34), overflows with boundless mercy and graces, a theme central to St. Maria Faustina’s message of divine mercy. Inspired by the theme “The Message of Mercy for Today’s World,” this article suggests concrete ways of getting our brothers and sisters back to the family of God.
Reactions have trailed the Nigerian government’s alleged lobbying of the U.S. to change the genocidal narrative in the country.
The case has been made for teachers to consider specialised religious education as a “sacred obligation” that must be preserved….
The Archdiocese of Kaduna, north-western Nigeria, has expressed appreciation to security agencies and people of goodwill across the world for prayers offered, which led to the release of one of their priests.
