Islamists have kidnapped 15 religious ministers this year already, and tragically two of them have been killed.

A Nigerian Catholic priest who recently served in the United States has been abducted by extremists along with other travelers in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, the church said. The Rev. Alphonsus ...

Boko Haram reported that it captured the Rev. Alphonsus Afina on June 1, according to the Diocese of Fairbanks.

English noblewoman Ela Fitzpayne did not “forget or forgive” the actions of the church that left her publicly humiliated, ...

When he was ordained as a priest for the Archdiocese of Washington at the age of 43 after a career in social work and ...

The priest was traveling from the city of Mubi, where he is based, to Maidiguri, the capital of Borno, for a workshop when ...

It has been more than a week since the Rev. Alphonsus Afina’s kidnapping by the Jihadist group Boko Haram in Nigeria, and ...

The Diocesan Pastoral Center (DPC) staff gathered at the Virgina G. Piper Chapel in downtown Phoenix this week to honor ...

What is it that makes a church building “sacred?” Why do we enter great churches and cathedrals and gasp with wonder while ...