Kidnapped priests Nigeria - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 27 Aug 2023 23:29:41 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Kidnapped priests Nigeria - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Priest and Seminarian kidnapped in August have been released https://cathnews.co.nz/2023/08/28/priest-and-seminarian-kidnapped-in-august-have-been-released/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 05:51:09 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=162911 Fr Paul Sanogo and Seminarian Melkiori Dominick Mahinini who were kidnapped on August 3 in the assault on the parish of St Luke Gyedna in the local government area of Paikoro in the State of Niger, in central northern Nigeria have been released. This was confirmed by the superior general of the Missionaries of Africa Read more

Priest and Seminarian kidnapped in August have been released... Read more]]> Fr Paul Sanogo and Seminarian Melkiori Dominick Mahinini who were kidnapped on August 3 in the assault on the parish of St Luke Gyedna in the local government area of Paikoro in the State of Niger, in central northern Nigeria have been released.

This was confirmed by the superior general of the Missionaries of Africa (known as the White Fathers), Fr Stanley Lubungo, according to whom the 2 religious were released on August 24th.

Fr Sanogo is a White Father originally from Burkina Faso. Mahinini is a Seminarian from Tanzania who was in Nigeria to carry out a missionary experience with the White Fathers and is originally from the parish of Kabanga in the Kigoma region.

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Priest and Seminarian kidnapped in August have been released]]> 162911 Abducted Kaduna Catholic priest found dead https://cathnews.co.nz/2022/07/21/abducted-kaduna-catholic-priest-found-dead/ Thu, 21 Jul 2022 07:53:32 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=149483 One of the two Catholic priests abducted by bandits last week, Rev Father John Mark Cheitnum, has been found dead. The Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev Joseph John Hayab, confirmed the development in a statement on Tuesday. Armed bandits had last Friday abducted Cheitnum and Rev Fr Donatus Cleopas from the Read more

Abducted Kaduna Catholic priest found dead... Read more]]> One of the two Catholic priests abducted by bandits last week, Rev Father John Mark Cheitnum, has been found dead.

The Chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev Joseph John Hayab, confirmed the development in a statement on Tuesday.

Armed bandits had last Friday abducted Cheitnum and Rev Fr Donatus Cleopas from the rectory of Christ the King Parish Yadin Garu in Lere Local Government Area of the state.

The statement read: "Sequel to the announcement of the two kidnapped priests from our diocese, we wish to announce that Rev Fr Donatus Cleophas escaped from his abductors and has reunited with us.

"However, it is with a deep sense of sorrow and pains that the bishop, clergy, religious and laity of the Diocese of Kafanchan announced the gruesome murder of Very Rev Fr John Mark Cheitnum.

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