Via Magdalene Kahiu, Courtney Mares for CNA
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Rome Newsroom, Jul 16, 2022 / 05:45 am (CNA).
The Nigerian diocese of Kafanchan has requested for prayers after two Catholic clergymen have been abducted Friday night.
Father John Mark Cheitnum and Father Denatus Cleopas have been kidnapped at round 5:45 p.m. on July 15 on the rectory of Christ the King Catholic Church within the the city of Lere in Nigeria’s northern Kaduna State.
“Might Jesus, crucified at the Move, concentrate to our prayers and hasten the unconditional liberate of His clergymen and all different abducted individuals,” Father Emmanuel Uchechukwu Okolo wrote in a commentary shared with CNA.
Okolo, who serves because the chancellor of the diocese of Kafanchan, stated that the diocese is looking folks to wish for the fast and protected liberate of the abducted clergymen.
“We can use each and every authentic manner to make sure their fast and protected liberate,” he stated.
A minimum of seven Catholic clergymen were abducted in Nigeria within the month of July, in keeping with knowledge compiled by means of Assist to the Church in Want, a Catholic nonprofit group.
The most recent abduction brings the overall as much as 20 Nigerian clergymen abducted for the reason that starting of 2022. 3 of the clergymen have been killed.
Safety knowledgeable David Otto, director of the Geneva Centre for Africa Safety and Strategic Research, founded in Geneva, Switzerland, advised CNA that the consensus of safety mavens in his staff is that the Catholic Church is being focused as a result of it’s been paying the steep ransoms demanded by means of the bandits, which will also be as top as $200,000 or extra.
Bishop Jude Arogundade of Ondo, in southwestern Nigeria, the place still-unapprehended gunmen on June 4 killed a minimum of 40 folks attending a Pentecost Mass in Owo, believes that the Catholic Church in Nigeria is each a risk and a strategic goal for radicalized Muslim Fulani herdsmen and Islamic terror teams the usage of violence to destabilize Nigeria.
Nigeria’s Kaduna state, particularly, has been described as “an epicenter of kidnapping and violence by means of non-state actors” in Nigeria by means of the UK-based human rights basis Christian Team spirit International. A 2022 file by means of the U.S. Fee for Global Non secular Freedom cites six assaults in opposition to church buildings in Kaduna State in 2021.
Catholic clergymen within the archdiocese of Kaduna arranged a protest of the violence in opposition to Christians in Nigeria on the funeral of a slain priest on the finish of June.
The Nigerian Diocesan Catholic Monks Affiliation has known as on clergymen to watch every week of prayer, fasting, Eucharistic adoration, and recitation of the rosary to lend a hand them of their ministry regardless of the harmful safety state of affairs.
“Our responsibility is to put sooner than the altar of God the gratitude, cares, worries and petitions of the devoted and ours. We’re advocates of pro-life and peace,” the clergymen affiliation commentary stated.
“We have been known as and despatched to evangelise the excellent news to the deficient, give liberty to captives, unfastened the oppressed, heal the broken-hearted, bind up wounds, and the likes. Now we have been pleasant this name and we will proceed.”
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Havana, Cuba, Jul 22, 2021 / 15:19 pm (CNA).
Cuba’s communist govt has drafted a legislation that may equate the function of dissidents’ protection legal professionals with that of public officers.
In Might, the Other people’s Splendid Courtroom, Cuba’s absolute best judicial authority, drew up a sequence of legislative proposals that it despatched to the island’s legislature, the Nationwide Meeting of Other people’s Energy, for passage.
Amongst those proposals is the “Draft Regulation on Felony Procedures,” which might equate the function of a protection attorney for dissidents with that of a “public worker or respectable,” striking the attorney on the mercy of power and sanctions from the federal government
A gaggle of Cuban legal professionals, who requested to talk with ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish language information spouse, on situation of anonymity for worry of reprisals from the federal government, warned that this invoice “would violate impartiality,” as a result of “the Prosecutor’s Administrative center represents the state, it’s a public functionary. Believe if the protection attorney additionally have been.”
The legal professionals identified that “that is one thing that for a few years they’ve attempted to perform, however some way wasn’t discovered to put in force it by means of converting the legislation.”
“However now, with a brand new felony procedural textual content, an strive is being made to introduce it in an overly underhanded means,” they stated.
Probably the most debatable texts of the invoice are discovered within the 5th particular provision, which defines what’s an worker and a public respectable.
Subsections e and f state that public staff and officers are a part of state businesses “of a public nature” appearing “legislative, govt or judicial purposes,” amongst others.
On the other hand, subsection g provides that “public staff or officers also are thought to be the ones individuals who, within the non-state sector, in addition to in international entities or public world organizations, workout positions or purposes very similar to the ones described in subsections e and f when the felony acts derive from their dating with the state or its establishments.”
The Cuban jurists advised ACI Prensa that “despite the fact that the phrase ‘attorney’ isn’t discussed, the generality of the expression ‘non-state sector’ is how to permit this interpretation the place the judges don’t revel in unique judicial independence.”
“What they’re in search of is a strategy to exert power on legal professionals and, when important, get them out of the best way. That’s how they might do it.”
“And getting them out of the best way,” they warned, may just imply “taking them out of move utterly” by means of discovering them in charge of against the law, “which additionally would lead to their expulsion from the Nationwide Group of Collective Regulation Corporations, the one establishment of its type at the island for the availability of prison services and products to local born individuals who’re defendants in a felony case.”
The judges who make up the Other people’s Splendid Courtroom are elected by means of the Nationwide Meeting of the Other people’s Energy, a one-party legislative frame which additionally elects the rustic’s president.
Communist rule in Cuba was once established quickly after the belief of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, which ousted the authoritarian ruler Fulgencio Batista.
Protests happened throughout Cuba July 11-12. Protesters cited issues about inflation, shortages of meals and drugs, and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Some protesters have been crushed, and a minimum of 100 have been arrested.

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The ransom bills to the terrorists could be thought to be as each an indication of weak point in addition to an incentive for extra kidnappings and violence in opposition to innocents. Clearly now not a just right situation with excellent alternatives.
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