The Rev. Alphonsus Afina, a Nigerian priest who served in Fairbanks and villages across the Seward Peninsula, was abducted by ...

Fairbanks Bishop Steven Maekawa said in a statement this week that Father Alphonsus Afina was captured by Boko Haram in the ...

On a tour of Spain with interfaith leaders, Msgr. Gregory Fairbanks reflects on how at one time Christian, Muslim, and Jewish ...

The African terrorist group Boko Haram has admitted responsibility for kidnapping the Rev. Alphonsus Afina, a Nigerian ...

The Diocese of Fairbanks says that they were contacted by a Nigerian Diocese informing them that a terrorist group in Africa ...

Alphonsus Afina, who served as a priest for many years in the Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks, has been captured by the militant ... “Even in the darkest circumstances, the Church not only survives but ...

Members of Alaska’s Catholic community are praying for the safety of a pastor who served more than six years in Fairbanks ...