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Catholic World News

Another priest abducted in Nigeria

May 23, 2024

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CWN Editor's Note: Father Oliver Buba, a priest of the Diocese of Yola in Adamawa State, Nigeria (map), was kidnapped from his rectory on May 21.

Father Buba’s abduction follows the May 15 kidnapping of Father Basil Gbuzuo, a priest who ministers in the Onitsha archdiocese in Anambra State.

The above note supplements, highlights, or corrects details in the original source (link above). About CWN news coverage.

 

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Mon16 March
Lent

Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent

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During the next two weeks the Gospel for each Lenten weekday Mass is from St. John. We shall read, day after day, about the growing hostility against Jesus that climaxed in the horror of Good Friday. The tragedy begins today on a happy note—a continuation of yesterday’s Laetare Sunday spirit. —The Vatican II…

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