'Please hear us, and please help us,' Nigerian bishop pleads, calling 'blood of martyrs' the 'seed of Christianity'

WASHINGTON (OSV News) -- 'Death does not announce any day,' cautions a Nigerian proverb. It's advice the Catholic faithful of the Diocese of Makurdi -- in Nigeria's Benue state -- are grimly familiar with as they and their Christian neighbors endure a sustained campaign of terrorism now stretching into a second decade.

OSV News recently interviewed Bishop Wilfred Chikpa Anagbe of Makurdi, a Claretian, during a U.S. visit hosted by Aid to the Church in Need, a Catholic charity under the guidance

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