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Gunmen attacked a Catholic parish in northern Nigeria Thursday, killing one priest and kidnapping another. The incident is the latest in a series of abductions and killings of clergy in Africa’s most populous country. Bishops in Nigeria have repeatedly called on the government to do more to improve security in the country.
A Christian college in Missouri, has asked a federal court, to suspend the Biden administration’s new directive, prohibiting housing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity. The College of the Ozarks says the directive violates its faith-based standards, prohibiting men and women from living together in the same dormitories.
Pope emeritus Benedict the Sixteenth praised the vitality of the Catholic faith in Poland, in a letter to a minor seminary in the country. Benedict wrote that he is delighted to see that the faith that has withered in Germany still blossoms in Poland. The letter was dated May 7th.
The Vatican is postponing a Synod of Bishops on synodality until 2023, in an effort to involve Catholic dioceses worldwide. Over the next year, the Vatican will send dioceses questionnaires and proposals for consultation. The Vatican will then combine responses in 2022 into a working document ahead of the Synod of Bishops in 2023.
Today is the feast day of Saint Christopher Magallanes, and two dozen others, who were martyred during the Cristero uprising in the 1920s in Mexico.