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Primates unite in outrage, prayer for schoolgirls kidnapped in Nigeria

Primates from countries including Brazil, New Zealand and South Africa have joined the worldwide outcry the abduction of more than two hundred young girls from Chibok, Nigeria.

09 May 2014

Archbishop Welby condemns abduction of Nigerian schoolsgirls

The Archbishop of Canterbury today condemned the abduction of over 200 Nigerian schoolgirls from their boarding school

07 May 2014

Anglican Women call for action on kidnapped Nigerian girls

Leaders of the International Anglican Women's Network have called on women around the Anglican Communion to do what they can to help the 200+ women kidnapped in Nigeria

06 May 2014

Archbishop Makgoba Condemns Abductions of Nigerian Schoolgirls as 'Outrage'

Archbishop Thabo Makgoba of Cape Town today called for "all of Africa, and especially South Africa" to rise up and demand the release of hundreds of Nigerian schoolgirls who were abducted from their school three weeks ago. 

06 May 2014

WCC encourages "swift and peaceful" action to restore Nigeria's missing girls

The abduction of more than 250 young women by the Boko Haram fighters in Nigeria has prompted “profound concern” from the World Council of Churches (WCC), Rev. Dr Olav Fykse Tveit. 

06 May 2014

Enugu Abp: "Send northern military, police to Boko Haram areas"

An Anglican archbishop in Nigeria has called for the immediate transfer of security operatives of Northern extraction to Boko Haram ravaged areas.

01 May 2014

DSS: "N10m was paid for kidnapped Anglican Archbishop"

N10 million was paid as ransom before the Dean of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) and Archbishop of the Niger Delta Province of the church, Bishop Ignatius Kattey, who was kidnapped last year, was freed 

19 April 2014

Nigeria: Kaduna villages death toll rises to 150

The death toll following a massacre across three villages in central Nigeria a week ago has risen beyond 150

26 March 2014

Bishops Condemn Continued Killing of Nigerians in North-East

Catholic and Anglican bishops have expressed their concern about the ongoing security situation in the country.

10 March 2014

I never thought I'd be a bishop

The bishop-elect of Yewa in Nigeria, Michael Adebayo Oluwarohunbi, in an interview with the Daily Trust newspaper.

18 February 2014