Catholic leaders, pastors and families say the joint U.S.-Nigeria strikes feel like long-overdue recognition of their suffering, and a fragile test of whether safety will finally follow.

It is often said that you cannot attend Mass in Nigeria without hearing a Jude Nnam composition, an ubiquity Nnam combines ...

(OSV News) – While some Nigerian Catholic Church leaders welcomed the U.S. airstrikes against the Islamic State group militants in the northwest of the country, an outspoken bishop strongly opposed it ...

San Antonio priest, Rev. Fr. Jude Offor, describes faith under fire in Nigeria and why Christmas Day airstrikes brought hope ...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — A Nigerian Catholic priest who recently served in the United States has been abducted by extremists along with other travelers in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, the church ...

At least 42 people have been killed and an unknown number of women and children abducted following a series of coordinated ...

MINNA, Nigeria — A total of 100 of the schoolchildren abducted from a Nigerian Catholic school last month have been released, the Christian Association of Nigeria said Monday, adding that more than ...

Militants have killed at least 58 individuals in Christian villages in northeastern and northcentral Nigeria since Christmas, ...

An unspecified number of students and teachers have been kidnapped from a Catholic school in central Nigeria, adding to a growing number of attacks on Christians in the West African nation. The ...

Nigerian authorities say they have secured the release of the remaining 130 schoolchildren kidnapped from a Catholic boarding school in the country's central Niger state. Nigeria's federal government ...

From 12 January, public and private schools "in safe and secure areas" will be allowed to reopen, Niger state's education ...