THE NIGHT OF SEPT. 6 AN ITALIAN WOMAN RELIGIOUS, AGED 83, WAS BRUTALLY MURDERED in an armed attack on the Chipene mission in the Diocese of Nacala, Mozambique. ACN International deplores the fact that a religious dimension is becoming increasingly prominent in the attacks by Islamist terrorists Sister María de Coppi, a Comboni sister who…
Amid rising jihadist violence in Mozambique, an 83-year-old Italian nun was shot and killed and six others were beheaded earlier this month by suspected militants aligned with the Islamic State. Sister Maria de Coppi was killed in the Sept. 6 attack in Chipene city when gunmen stormed a Catholic mission compound and set fire to…
More than 40 people have reportedly been killed as anti-government protests rocked dozens of Iranian cities in the last week following the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman arrested by the Iranian “morality police” for not properly wearing a hijab earlier this month. At least 41 people have been killed, and more than 1,200…
Donald Trump and three of his children have been served with a lawsuit alleging “years of bank, tax and insurance fraud”. New York attorney general Letitia James is suing the former US president, his family, and the Trump Organisation. If successful, it could halt Mr Trump’s ability to do business in the state for years…
A 22-year-old woman has died in an Iranian hospital days after being detained by the regime’s morality police for allegedly not complying with the country’s hijab regulations. Mahsa Amini was travelling with her family from Iran’s western province of Kurdistan to the capital, Tehran, to visit relatives when she was reportedly arrested for failing to…
The ex-husband of gospel musician Obaapa Christy, Pastor Love Kweku Hammond, says he has not seen their last child for over a decade. According to him, the last time he saw his son was when the boy was about two years old adding that the singer has not allowed him to see his kid since…
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been given the green light by the United States government to activate the satellite internet service Starlink to help Iranians protesting against the death of a woman in police custody. Access to social media and some content is tightly restricted in Iran and significant internet outages were reported across the…
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a $100m fund to help in tackling the food crisis in Africa and South Asia. According to a press statement by the Foundation, the organization made the commitment at the United Nations General Assembly during the week. It said the $100 million is “to help alleviate the…
Six new cases of Ebola have been found in Uganda, the World Health Organization said Thursday after the country reported its first fatality from the highly contagious virus since 2019. Uganda’s health ministry declared an Ebola outbreak in the central district of Mubende on Tuesday, announcing the death of a 24-year-old man. “So far, seven…
The three-storey building located at Oye Sonuga Street, Off Oye Roundabout in Isolo Road, Mushin collapsed on Friday afternoon trapping an unidentified number of persons. The latest update from the Lagos Territorial Coordinator of NEMA, Ibrahim Farinloye, confirms that two female and two male bodies have been pulled out from the rubble of the building….