Catholic priest appeals for prayers for evangelical missionary kidnapped in Niger — By: Catholic News Agency

null / Credit: Blue Mist Film Studios/Shutterstock ACI Africa, Oct 24, 2025 / 12:32 pm (CNA). A Catholic priest in Burkina Faso has appealed for prayers for the safe release of an evangelical Christian missionary abducted in Niger on Tuesday, Oct. 21. Kevin Rideout, an American missionary, was abducted from his home in the country’s…

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Author of religious freedom report weighs in on Cardinal Parolin’s Nigeria comments — By: Catholic News Agency

Marta Petrosillo, editor-in-chief of the Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Religious Freedom Report. / Credit: Gael Kerbaol/Secours Catholique Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 24, 2025 / 09:14 am (CNA). The author of Aid to the Church in Need’s 2025 Religious Freedom Report, Marta Petrosillo, is coming to Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin’s…

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Pope Leo XIV approves decrees for 11 martyr saints killed by Nazi Germany, communists — By: Catholic News Agency

The sun rises over the main gate with the renowned sign “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work makes you free”) of the Museum of Auschwitz/Birkenau German Nazi concentration and extermination camp on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp, Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. / Credit: Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images Vatican City, Oct 24, 2025 /…

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