Nigerian priest killed by kidnappers
March 05, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Father Sylvester Okechukwu, a priest of the Diocese of Kafanchan, Nigeria, was kidnapped on March 4 and later killed by his abductors.
The Kafanchan diocese confirmed on March 5 that Father Okechukwu had been killed. Neither the identity of his assailants nor the motive for the crime are known.
The kidnapping occurred just two days after another priest and a seminarian were abducted in Nigeria’s Edo state (see today’s separate CWN headline). Two other priests, kidnapped in Nigeria on February 22, remain missing.
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