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(ZENIT News – FIDES / Abuja, 05.12.2026).- “Since September, over 98,000 people, including 16 priests, have been displaced due to the ongoing violence in the southern part of Taraba State (in northeastern Nigeria), while 217 churches have been completely destroyed,” reports Msgr. Mark Maigida Nzukwein , Bishop of Wukari in a statement released following the diocese’s third Ge...

(ZENIT News / Rome, 05.12.2026).- A growing controversy inside the Catholic Church has erupted after the publication of a Synod on Synodality study-group report that sharply criticized Courage International, one of the most established Catholic apostolates accompanying men and women who experience same-sex attraction while seeking to live according to the Church’s teaching on...

(ZENIT News / Jerusalem, 05.12.2026).- The forced departure of Father Louis Salman from the Palestinian town of Beit Sahour has become far more than an immigration dispute. For many Christians in the Holy Land, the decision by Israeli authorities not to renew the Jordanian priest’s residency permit is being interpreted as another sign of a steadily worsening climate for the r...

(ZENIT News / Vatican City, 05.11.2026).- The Istituto per le Opere di Religione (IOR) published the fourteenth  edition of its Annual Report, containing the 2025 Financial Statements, prepared in accordance with IAS-IFRS, and the disclosure corresponding to the Third Pillar of the Basel framework (Pillar III).

In line with the objectives of the strategic plan and...

(ZENIT News – Persecution.org / Abuja, 05.11.2026).- A new report from International Christian Concern (ICC) highlights how Niger...