Nigeria: Hundreds Kidnapped in School Attacks
Shock and grief have spread through Niger State in central Nigeria after gunmen raided a Catholic boarding school in the village of Papiri on November st, taking students and staff members captive. According to the Christian Association of Nigeria, of the kidnapped students managed to escape
China: Pastors Released from Prison
Pastor Xing Wenxiang (far right)
Photo: ChinaAid
In November Pastor Zhang Shaojie was arrested on charges of fraud and " disrupting public order." Despite multiple appeals, the church leader was sentenced to years in prison. His family reported that, while imprisoned, Pastor Zhang suffered mental and
Belarus: Priests Pardoned by the Nation's Presidential Leader
(second from right), along with two archbishops.
Photo: Catholic.by
Two Catholic priests who had been convicted and sentenced to more than years in prison were pardoned and freed from a Belarusian labour camp on November th. State media claimed that the
