Women are pictured in a file photo praying during Mass at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in Abuja, Nigeria. Seminarian Andrew Peter, 21, has become the latest victim of killings in the West African country, where the attack and kidnapping of Catholic clergy is on the rise. On March 3, 2025, he was kidnapped alongside Fr Philip Ekweli, a priest from the Diocese of Auchi in southern Nigeria. The priest was released March 13, but the abductors killed the seminarian, the diocese said. Photo: OSV News/Afolabi Sotunde, Reuters.
It was the summer of 2014 when I first heard the harmony. It was so flawless, I thought it must have been a recording. In fact it was the sweet sound of seminarians from St Bonaventure’s, a Francisan college, in Lusaka, Zambia, located next to the orphanage, where I was volunteering. At the time, St…
Martina Purdy
