Analysis of media reports and data from a global Catholic charity organisation based in the United Kingdom, Aid to the Church in Need, has revealed that no fewer than 28 Catholic priests were kidnapped in Nigeria in 2022.
The priest, Chinedu Nwadike, was abducted alongside a Catholic seminarian, Emmanuel Nwafor, while they were on their way to Enugu State.
Just a day earlier, on June 25, 2022, gunmen suspected to be terrorists killed a Kaduna State-based Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Vitus Borogo.
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