Nigerian Catholic worshiper pray during morning mass April 12, 2005, in Kano, Nigeria. Kano is part of Nigeria s primarily Muslim north, but a devoted Catholic minority participates in frequent Masses in local cathedrals. | Chris Hondros/Getty Images
A Catholic priest s body was discovered last Saturday in Nigeria with apparent machete wounds while his brother remains missing following their abduction last week.Â
The Christian Association of Nigeria spoke out this week after the killing of Fr. John Gbakaan, a priest serving in the Minna Catholic Diocese in Kaduna state who was kidnapped by unidentified perpetrators.Â
âWe received the news of the kidnapp[ing] and killing of our dear Rev. Father John with great shock and pains,â CANâs Vice Chairman, the Rev. John Hayab, said in an interview with the Nigerian news outlet Vanguard published Sunday.Â
Experts on the persecution of Egyptian Christians report that although life under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is better for Christians than past presidents, such as Mohamed Morsi or Hosni Mubarak, believers continue to face persecution and violence at the hands of radical Muslims who evade arrest and prosecution.
Houses destroyed in Chiapas by Traditionalist Catholics | El Universal
Two families from Mexico’s Tzotzil tribe destroyed the houses of five evangelical Christians on Sunday in the Mitzitón community of southern Mexico, near the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas.
Esdras Alonso González, the director of the Christian ministry Alas de Águila, alerted news sources to the attacks. He said to El Universal that before the attack started, the local community jailed two Christians, Alejandro Jiménez Jiménez and Miguel Jiménez Heredia.
One year ago, local Catholics prevented evangelical Christians from building a church in the area and forced them to leave. When they returned a year later, local people attacked them in another attempt to make them leave.
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