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Vatican agency says 17 churchworkers murdered in 2025

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Seventeen Catholic priests, sisters, seminarians and lay workers were murdered in 2025, according to Fides, the Vatican's missionary news agency. The post Vatican agency says 17 churchworkers murdered in 2025 first appeared on OSV News.

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