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Police and government officials gather at St. Mary’s Catholic Primary and Secondary School where gunmen on Friday abducted children and staff in Papiri community, Nigeria, Tuesday, Nov.25, 2025. (Credit: Yunusa Umar/AP.)

Nigeria’s president declares emergency and beefs up forces following abductions

  • Nov 27
  • Grace Ekpu, 
    Associated Press
People who were kidnapped in a church service in November 2024 leave after a church meeting in Kabuna, Nigeria, on Nov. 6, 2025. (Credit: Sunday Alamba/AP.)

Nigerian rights group links surge in violence to Vatican’s ‘inconsistent’ narrative

  • Nov 27
  • Ngala Killian Chimtom
Police and government officials walk past St. Mary's Catholic Primary and Secondary School where gunmen on Friday abducted children and staff in Papiri community, Nigeria, on Nov. 25, 2025. (Credit: Yunusa Umar/AP.)

Nigerian parents say they are kept in the dark over abducted schoolchildren

  • Nov 27
  • Yunusa Umar, 
    Ope Adetayo, Associated Press
Burnt cars at the site of a bomb blast at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Nigeria on Dec. 25, 2011. (Credit: Sunday Aghaeze/AP.)

Catholic bishops in Nigeria say ‘genocide’ might qualify for attacks on Christians

  • Nov 27
  • Charles Collins
A vendor display local newspapers on the street of Lagos with headlines of the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, where gunmen on Monday attacked the school dormitory, abducted schoolgirls, in Kebbi Nigeria, Wednesday, Nov. 19 2025. (Credit: Sunday Alamba/AP.)

24 schoolgirls abducted from Catholic school in Nigeria have been rescued, president says

  • Nov 26
  • Tunde Omolehin, 
    Ope Adetayo, Associated Press
Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, center, arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, Sept. 1, 2024. (Credit: Greg Baker/Pool Photo via AP.)

A timeline of abductions from schools in Nigeria

  • Nov 25
  • Associated Press
A Cameroonian policeman and a gendarme patrol in Lysoka, near Buea, in Cameroon’s Anglophone South-West region, October 07, 2018. (Credit: Voice of America.)

Cameroon archbishop attacks separatists targeting priests

  • Nov 24
  • Ngala Killian Chimtom
Dormitories of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Niger state’s remote Papiri community in Nigeria. (Credit: Christian Association of Nigeria via AP.)

Nigeria: 50 kidnapped pupils escape captors, 265 persons still held, as pope appeals for release of captives

  • Nov 24
  • Chinedu Asadu, 
    Associated Press
A view of the school bus of the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, where gunmen on Monday attacked the school dormitory and abducted schoolgirls, is seen in Kebbi, Nigeria, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. (Credit: Tunde Omolehin/AP.)

Why schoolchildren are often abducted in Nigeria and who the usual kidnappers are

  • Nov 22
  • Associated Press
Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, center, arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport in Beijing, Sept. 1, 2024. (Credit: Greg Baker/Pool Photo via AP.)

Hundreds of students at Catholic school in Nigeria seized by Islamists

  • Nov 22
  • Ngala Killian Chimtom

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