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FUNERAL MASS FOR FR. RAPHAEL ADEBAYO Today Thursday 12 January, 2023. 10am. Holy Cross Cathedral,
At Holy Mass of the Day-3 in the ongoing 5th edition of the National Mission Congress (NAMICON5) at the Maria Assumpta Cathedral in Owerri, the Episcopal Chairman, Mission and Dialogue Department of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), Most Rev. Stephen Mamza, and Chief Celebrant, specially offered the Mass for the safe release of
By PJ Usanga Presenting a paper on the topic: ‘Digital Mission: A Contemporary Approach to Evangelization in the Face of Media Toxicity,’ at the ongoing 5th edition of the National Mission Congress (NAMICON5), the National Director of Social Communications, Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, Rev. Fr. Dr. Michael Umoh, has stated that an un-communicating Church is
The 5th edition of the National Mission Congress (NAMICON5), kicks off officially today, October 25, 2023 at the Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri, Imo State, with the theme: “Fear not for I am with you” Isaiah 41:10, at the Maria Assumpta Cathedral in Owerri. The Congress started with an Opening Mass celebrated by the Emeritus Archbishop
The Catholic Bishop of Kafanchan Diocese, Most Rev. Julius Kundi, has emphasized that the mission of spreading the good news of Christ who brings truth, love and freedom particularly to those enslaved must be sustained with much enthusiasm because everyone has the right to receive the gospel. Bishop Kundi emphasised during his homily at the
By Fr. Henry Charles Umelechi Each Catholic Metropolitan province contains an Archdiocese and suffragan diocese(s). An archdiocese is referred to as a metropolitan see or the โheadโ diocese of an ecclesiastical province: the “primus inter pares,” the first among the dioceses in a province. For example, the Archdiocese of Onitsha is the Metropolitan See for
With the persistent conflicts and crisis between Isreal and the Hamas militia, the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, through an interview last weekend, has expressed the Holy See’s willingness to help mediate a peace agreement between the two warring parties. Cardinal Parolin who disclosed that the Vatican’s major concern amid the conflict is
Not less eight priests detained by the dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua have reportedly been transferred to the El Chipote prison _ a torture facility for political prisoners, last weekend. Disclosing this to the Nicaraguan daily; El Confidencial by a priest who preferred to remain anonymous, the priest explained that the eight priests
African Union and the United Nations Women had on Tuesday October 17, 2023, convened a stakeholders consultation on positive masculinity in leadership to end violence against women and the girl child at the presidential villa of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in Kinshasa. The stakeholders consultation engaged a sampling of traditional rulers and religious
By Ruben-Mario Brodrick The theological virtue of charity is the supernatural virtue by which we love God above all things for His own sake, and our neighbor as ourselves as part of our love for God, the holy Bible also says: โYou shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all
By CSN Media The Holy Father, Pope Francis, has created a new diocese of Katsina in Nigeria, and has named Rev. Fr. Gerald Musa as the new bishop of the ecclesiastical see. The new diocese which is suffragan of the Metropolitan See of Kaduna, is carved out of the Catholic diocese of Sokoto. Very Rev.