The first and oldest church in Nigeria is the Cathedral Church of St. Peters in Ake, Abeokuta. The key missionary in charge, Rev. Henry Townsend arrived from Sierra Leone to spread Christianity.

Nigeria June 5, 2022. Reuters One of the priests at the church, Rev. Fr. Andrew Abayomi, said they were at the end of the service and people were getting ready to leave when the first gunshot rang ...

Pope Leo XIV recalls working in the Apostolic Nunciature in Lagos in the 1980s as President Tinubu prepares to attend his ...

The Methodist Church Nigeria, on Sunday, enthroned Rt Rev. Nkechi Nwosu as the first female bishop of the Church in the country. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Nwosu was enthroned ...

“Nigeria will eventually win.” While the attack was the first of its kind in Ondo state ... as Mass was drawing to a close at the small church in the Nigerian town of Owo.

It was the first time that a church had been attacked ... In late May, the head of Nigeria’s Methodist Church was kidnapped and released a few days later after Methodist officials said they ...

A woman who lost her parents in the southwestern Nigerian city of Owo said they regularly attended the Catholic church where a mass ... it was an explosion at first, then we started panicking ...

many worshippers were shot in their legs Grace was being shared when the first shot rang out. For dozens of worshippers at the St Francis Catholic Church in Owo, south-western Nigeria, the Lord's ...

A religious schism has turned deadly in Nigeria, with a church member fatally shot and two young children killed as homes were set ablaze, according to United Methodist News Service. The news ...