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Pope Leo XIV
on Sunday called for the release of more than 300 hostages, including students and teachers kidnapped from a Catholic school in one of the country’s largest mass kidnapping cases.
Nigeria
in recent years.
“I received with deep sadness the news of the kidnapping of priests, congregation and students in Nigeria and Cameroon,” he said, quoted from
AFP
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The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) on Saturday confirmed that armed groups kidnapped more than 300 students and teachers in attacks targeting two different schools in the country.
“I make a sincere appeal for the immediate release of the hostages,” the Pope said, expressing “deep sorrow, especially for the kidnapped boys and girls and their anxiety-ridden families.”
He closed the Angelus prayer with the invitation, “Let us pray for our brothers and sisters, and that churches and schools may always be places of safety and hope.”
The wave of kidnappings began on Monday when armed groups stormed a secondary school in Kebbi state and abducted 25 schoolgirls.The second attack occurred early Friday morning at St.Mary in Niger state.
The two attacks occurred at the same time as another incident at a church in western Nigeria, where two people were killed and dozens more kidnapped.
The series of violence sparked international attention, including from United States President Donald Trump, who threatened to take military action over what he called “the persecution of Christians by radical Islamic groups in Nigeria.”
Nigeria is still haunted by the tragedy of the kidnapping of nearly 300 schoolgirls in Chibok by Boko Haram more than a decade ago.A number of them are still unaccounted for, leaving unhealed wounds for the country.
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