Nigerian troops have killed Boko Haram commander Ameer Malam Jidda and some of the terrorist leader's associates. The ...

Church officials say a Nigerian Catholic priest who recently served the United States has been abducted by extremists along with other travelers in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state.

Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorists have abducted a Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Daniel Afina and nine others after killing one person ...

Rev. Alphonsus Afina, a Nigerian priest who served in Alaska, was kidnapped by Boko Haram near Gwoza amid rising violence in ...

The Nigerian Army’s Operation Hadin Kai, OPHK, and the Borno State Police Command have pledged renewed cooperation in the fight against terrorism, ...

Aid to the Church in Need said the Nigerian-born priest is the 15th religious to be kidnapped in Nigeria this year.

Boko Haram reported that it captured the Rev. Alphonsus Afina on June 1, according to the Diocese of Fairbanks.

Islamists have kidnapped 15 religious ministers this year already, and tragically two of them have been killed.

It has been more than a week since the Rev. Alphonsus Afina’s kidnapping by the Jihadist group Boko Haram in Nigeria, and ...

Rev. Alphonsus Afina, a Nigerian priest previously serving in the U.S., was abducted by Boko Haram in northeast Nigeria's Borno state. Taken during an ambush on June 1, alongside other travelers, his ...