Pope Leo XIV calls for “joyful laborers” in the mission field during his July 6th Angelus, urging daily witness to the Gospel.
The numbers reported by Fides do not include the death of Father Tobias Chukwujekwu Okonkwo, who was shot dead by unidentified assailants, at lhiala, along Onitsha-Owerri Expressway, Nigeria, hours after Pope Francis honored the first Christian martyr on Boxing Day.
