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

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

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

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

A Fairbanks mass was held this afternoon for a former Fairbanks priest the Diocese of Fairbanks says was kidnapped while on a ...

Maekawa, 55, in his current role has created an outreach program to serve the isolated Catholic Yupik ... our Lord Jesus and the church than here in the Diocese of Fairbanks, and in this great ...

FAIRBANKS — Mary, the mother of Jesus, and pioneering Catholic women are honored in two, newly installed stained glass windows in the foyer of Immaculate Conception Church. Fittingly ...

The Diocese of Fairbanks, however ... described by one observer as “The Catholic Church’s biggest crisis since the Reformation,” has shaken the church hierarchy around the world and prompted ...

The bishop of Fairbanks announced on Wednesday that the ... against the diocese alleging sexual misconduct by priests or church volunteers in incidents from the 1950s to the early 1980s.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska – A judge has approved the final details of a bankruptcy plan revision for the Fairbanks Catholic Diocese ... brothers and church volunteers, both living and dead.

Jim LaBelle, a 77-year-old Iñupiaq from Fairbanks, Alaska ... LaBelle said he wants to see the Catholic Church and its entities share more of their detailed records on the schools, the names ...