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Aid to the Church in Need documents actions against clergy, religious and seminarians.
The number of priests, religious, and seminarians who were killed, kidnapped, or arrested is troublingly high, according to a Catholic agency supporting the Church under oppression.
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) found that 132 Catholic priests and religious were either arrested, kidnapped, or murdered during 2023, up from 124 cases the previous year.
In Nigeria, a total of 14 murders included 11 priests, one bishop, one religious brother and one seminarian. This represents a drop from the 18 registered in 2022. As far as ACN was able to ascertain, no women religious were murdered last year.
Worldwide, ACN identified seven deaths directly related to persecution, with three of them being in Nigeria. Fr. Isaac Achi was murdered in January when he was unable to escape his burning residence. A seminarian, Na’aman Danlami, suffered the same fate in September. Soon afterwards, in October, Godwin Eze, a Benedictine brother who had been abducted along with two fellow novices, was murdered by his kidnappers.
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The number of priests, religious, and seminarians who were killed, kidnapped, or arrested is troublingly high, according to a Catholic agency supporting the Church under oppression.
Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) found that 132 Catholic priests and religious were either arrested, kidnapped, or murdered during 2023, up from 124 cases the previous year.
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Thirteen priests and one religious brother were murdered in 2023, although half were killed for reasons seemingly unrelated to persecution.In Nigeria, a total of 14 murders included 11 priests, one bishop, one religious brother and one seminarian. This represents a drop from the 18 registered in 2022. As far as ACN was able to ascertain, no women religious were murdered last year.
Worldwide, ACN identified seven deaths directly related to persecution, with three of them being in Nigeria. Fr. Isaac Achi was murdered in January when he was unable to escape his burning residence. A seminarian, Na’aman Danlami, suffered the same fate in September. Soon afterwards, in October, Godwin Eze, a Benedictine brother who had been abducted along with two fellow novices, was murdered by his kidnappers.
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132 Priests and religious killed, kidnapped in 2023: Report
Aid to the Church in Need documents actions against clergy, religious and seminarians.
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