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Trial set for alleged perpetrators of 2022 Nigerian church massacre
August 19, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: The trial of five men accused of perpetrating the 2022 Owo church attack begins in Nigeria on August 19. Federal prosecutors linked the defendants to the Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab.
Over 40 people were killed in the Pentecost Sunday attack on St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Owo, a city of 220,000 in Nigeria’s Ondo State.
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