Tag: Thousands
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Nigeria diocese appeals for help, prayers after thousands displaced by floods
By ACI Africa ACI Africa, Sep 12, 2024 / 11:00 am The Diocese of Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria is appealing for prayers and humanitarian assistance for thousands of people displaced by floods that intensified Sept. 10. In a Facebook post, the diocese announced that the flooding in Maiduguri, a city in Borno Estate, is the…
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Thousands gather in jungle for celebration honoring Catholic priest killed in eastern India
By Anto Akkara Bangalore, India, Sep 10, 2024 / 11:15 am More than 4,000 Catholics on Sept. 2 assembled in the remote Jamboni jungle to mark the 25-year observance of the death of 33-year-old Father Arul Das of the Balasore Diocese, who was shot and pierced with arrows in his thatched chapel-house during the early…