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Courageous witnesses to the faith: 17 missionaries were murdered in 2025
Father Sylvester Okechukwu of the Diocese of Kafanchan in Nigeria was found murdered on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025. |…
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Mexican bishops say root causes of crime must be addressed after another mayor is murdered
Mayor Carlos Alberto Manzo Rodríguez of Uruapan, a city in the Mexican state of Michoacán, was murdered Nov. 1, 2025.…
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Catholic News - General
Catholic father murdered while on pilgrimage to Marian shrine in Pakistan
Marian shrine in Mariamabad, Pakistan. / Credit: Agenzia Fides, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons ACI Prensa Staff, Sep 16,…
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Abducted seminarian murdered in Nigeria; priest released after 10 days in captivity
Andrew Peter (left), a seminarian, and Father Philip Ekweli (right) were abducted March 3, 2025, from a parish rectory in…
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Nigerian diocese pays tribute to priest who was murdered on Ash Wednesday
Father Sylvester Okechukwu of the Diocese of Kafanchan in Nigeria was found murdered on Ash Wednesday, March 5, 2025. /…
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44-year-old priest murdered amid Myanmar civil war
Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win. / Credit: Courtesy of Archdiocese of Mandalay ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 19, 2025 /…
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Catholic priest in Nigeria murdered by ‘unidentified assailants’
Father Tobias Chukwujekwu Okonkwo was manager of the respective schools of nursing, midwifery, and medical laboratory at Our Lady of…
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Report: 80 priests murdered in Mexico over last three decades
The most recent murder of a priest in Mexico occurred Oct. 20, 2024. / Credit: Martha Calderón/ACI Prensa Puebla, Mexico,…
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Murdered priest in Mexico remembered as ‘tireless apostle of peace’
In an Aug. 2, 2024, interview, Father Marcelo Pérez revealed that a “price” had been put on his life. The…
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Catholic journalist murdered in Democratic Republic of Congo eulogized as ‘man of peace’
Bishop Willy Ngumbi Ngengele of the Goma Diocese presides over the Oct. 1, 2024, funeral Mass for Edmond Bahati Mbarushimana,…
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