Religious Freedom

Nigeria church attacked

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Armed men took three people hostage in a church in southeast Nigeria. Four days earlier, Father Samuel Opeyemi Oyetoro was found dead in the center of the country. These attacks reveal the persistence of criminal gangs targeting religious and civilian communities.

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