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FUNERAL MASS FOR FR. RAPHAEL ADEBAYO Today Thursday 12 January, 2023. 10am. Holy Cross Cathedral,
Pope Francis: To be a teacher is to live a mission Pope Francis greets Sisters from the Maestre Pie Filippini Institute, and pilgrims from the Italian dioceses of Viterbo and Civitavecchia-Tarquinia, which included children making their First Communion, and underlines that we cannot be content with “teaching” Jesus if we do not bear witness to
Four years ago, Notre Dame University brought four Chibok girls to study here. They graduated yesterday. Notre Dame flew their parents from Nigeria to attend the graduation ceremony. During the four years, Notre Dame accompanied their families, built houses for them and relocated them from their destroyed villages to the city. The girls excelled in
UNACCEPTABLE ACTS OF VIOLENT EXTREMISM ON CHRISTIANS AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH BY ISLAMIC EXTRIMISTS IN NORTHERN NIGERIA The Knights and Ladies of the Catholic Order of Knights ofย S t. Mulumba, Nigeria, hereby condemns in totality the gruesome murder of a student, Deborah Yakubu by some violent islamic extremists on Thursday, 12 May 2022, at
Female Student Stoned to Death in Sokoto By Matthews Otalike A 200 level female christian student, Deborah Yakubu, was stoned to death and set ablaze at the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto. Deborah allegedly had argument with fellow students online and the muslims among them claimed that she blasphemed prophet muhammad. The interaction
Bishop Paulinus Ezeokafor receives the operational license for Peter University Achina-Onneh, Anambra state from the Hon. Minister of Education. 05.12. 2022
Cardinal Zen arrested in Hong Kong, Holy See expresses concern Cardinal Joseph Zen was detained in Hong Kong on Wednesday by the police force set up to oversee national security, and charged with โcollusion with foreign forcesโ in connection with his role as administrator of the 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund. The director of the Vatican
BREAKING NEWS: 90 year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen, the retired Archbishop of Hong Kong, has been arrested by Chinese authorities. His apparent “crime” is that he helped set up a fund to pay for legal representation for pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong who were arrested for criticizing the government. Please pray for Cardinal Zen’s immediate release.
THE CLARETIAN MISSIONARIES HAVE A NEW GOVERNMENT The Claretian Missionaries, West Nigeria Independent Delegation convoked for a week Elective Assembly at their, now famous, Institute of Consecrated Life in Africa (INCLA) located in Bwari Area Council of Abuja, the Nigerian Federal Capital Territory. However, it was on Thursday, April 28, 2022, at exactly 11:15 that
A PASTOR CLOSES DOWN MINISTRY TO JOIN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Former Protestant minister embraces the truth of the Catholic Church. But How? What would drive a Protestant pastor to give up his ministry, to wander in spiritual darkness for a time and eventually follow Godโs call in a new direction? For Steve Dow, it was
