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Nigerian priest commits suicide in Massachusetts
July 14, 2026
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CWN Editor's Note: A 54-year-old Nigerian priest who ministered in the Archdiocese of Boston for the last five years killed himself as his religious-worker visa was set to expire and his superior directed him to return to his home Diocese of Abakaliki.
“We are still in shock and trauma processing the sudden death of our beloved priest,” Father Benjamin Madu, said Bishop Ernest Obodo, apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Abakaliki.
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