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FUNERAL MASS FOR FR. RAPHAEL ADEBAYO Today Thursday 12 January, 2023. 10am. Holy Cross Cathedral,
By Fr. Michael BANJO & Fr. Francis PAPA The day began with Holy Mass at 6:45 a.m. at Saint Joseph de Medina Parish, presided over by Most Rev. Joseph Afrifa, Vice President of RECOWA. The homily was delivered by Most Rev. François Xavier Gnonhossou. The morning plenary session commenced at 9:18 a.m. with a prayer
Tributes have trailed the sudden death of a young Nigerian “missionary” priest, Very Rev. John Simon Tanko, 47, who recently died of heart failure while on holiday in his home country after being away with the St. Patrick’s Missionary Society in Kenya for 7 years. The priest of the Catholic Diocese of Bauchi, Nigeria, who
The Catholic Community of St. Pius X Parish, Karu, warmly welcomed the Auxiliary Bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja, His Lordship, Most Rev. Dr. Anselm Umoren, on February 2, 2025. The visit coincided with his 13th episcopal anniversary, drawing a large gathering of parishioners and guests from across the Archdiocese. Bishop Umoren was
Floribert Bwana Chui Bin Kositi, a young civil servant from the Democratic Republic of Congo, assassinated for opposing corruption, will be beatified. Vatican News As a young Congolese civil servant, Floribert had refused to give in to corruption and allow the importation of a shipment of bad rice from Rwanda. killed in hatred of the
By Jude Atemanke Enugu, 23 November, 2024 / 10:05 pm (ACI Africa). Pope Francis has hailed the 100-year-old Bigard Memorial Major Seminary in Nigeria for its “invaluable service” to the people of God. In a goodwill message addressed to the Rector of the National Major Seminary based in the country’s Catholic Diocese of Enugu, Fr. Albert Okey Ikpenwa,
Consecrated religious in Ghana make time alongside their numerous other activities to help the wider community recognise the need to protect Creation, focusing especially on plastic pollution, which has become a major problem especially in suburban areas near cities.1 By Sr. Sylvie Lum Cho, MSHR Pollution is easily spotted in Donkorkrom, in the Eastern Region
For more than a year, religious organizations have lobbied Congress and the Biden administration to fix a sudden procedural change in how the government processes green cards for religious workers, which threatens the ability of thousands of them to continue to minister in the United States. The Catholic Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey, and five
By CSN Media The members of the African Biblical Leadership Initiative (ABLI), led by Professor Jerry GANA, paid a courtesy call to the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria (CSN) to acquaint and request the partnership of the Catholic Church in a Bible based International Conference proposed to take place in Nigeria later in October, 2024. In
Father Paul Sanogo and seminarian Melchior Maharini, who were kidnapped from their Missionaries of Africa community in Nigeria’s Catholic Diocese of Minna, came back to the community on Aug. 23 weary, traumatized, and sick. The two had spent three weeks in captivity, where they were flogged almost daily, made to sleep on rocks out in the open,
