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Before his run for governor, Father Alia was best known for his healing ministry.

Hyacinth Alia, a suspended priest in the Catholic diocese of Gboko, Benue, says he joined the state's gubernatorial race to effect some change.

Genocide in Nigeria ‘happening before our eyes,’ congressman says at hearing Nigerian schoolboys walk after they were rescued by security forces in Katsina, Nigeria, Dec. 18, 2020. (CNS photo/Afolabi Sotunde, Reuters) By Kurt Jensen • Catholic News Service • Posted December 21, 2020 WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Catholic bishop of Gboko, Nigeria, and the Knights of Columbus added their voices to a Dec. 17 congressional hearing spotlighting sectarian violence in Nigeria in which thousands of Christians have been killed simply for their faith identity. The hearing of the Tom Lantos Human R...

Genocide in Nigeria 'happening before our eyes' Religious organizations urge the American government to pressure the Nigerian state to provide protection Trending Parents of abducted schoolboys wait outside a camp to receive their children on their release in Katsina, Nigeria, on Dec. 18. (Photo: Kola Sulaimon/AFP) The Catholic bishop of Gboko, Nigeria, and the Knights of Columbus added their voices to a Dec. 17 congressional hearing spotlighting sectarian violence in Nigeria in which thousands of Christians have been killed simply for their faith identity. The hearing of the Tom Lantos Huma...

Catholic church in the city of Akure, Nigeria. Credit: Jordi C/Shutterstock Washington D.C., Dec 18, 2020 / 10:00 am (CNA).- The world must not ignore the “genocide” of Christians in Nigeria, the Catholic Bishop of Gboko told members of Congress on Thursday. “The mass slaughter of Christians in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, by every standard, meets the criteria for a calculated genocide from the definition of the Genocide Convention,” Bishop William Avenya of Gboko, in center of Nigeria, told a congressional commission on Thursday. The bishop said that “it is depressing that our Middle B...