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FUNERAL MASS FOR FR. RAPHAEL ADEBAYO Today Thursday 12 January, 2023. 10am. Holy Cross Cathedral,
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: “You 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.
Erezione della Diocesi di Katsina (Nigeria) e nomina del primo Vescovo Il Santo Padre ha eretto la nuova Diocesi di Katsina (Nigeria) per dismembramento della Diocesi di Sokoto, rendendola suffraganea della Sede Metropolitana di Kaduna. Allo stesso tempo ha nominato primo Vescovo della neo-eretta Diocesi il Rev. Sac. Gerald Mamman Musa, del clero della Diocesi
(CSN Media) The Holy Father has appointed Rev. Fr. Simeon Okezuo Nwobi, C.M.F., as the Auxiliary Bishop of the sede vacante of the Diocese of Ahiara (Nigeria), also assigning him the titular See of Rusgunie. Curriculum vitae H.E. Mgr. Simeon Okezuo Nwobi, C.M.F., was born on 25th March 1960 in Eziama Oparanadim Ekwereazu, in the
Ahiara diocese gets Auxiliary Bishop! The Holy Father has appointed Rev. Fr. Simeon Okezuo Nwobi, C.M.F., as the Auxiliary Bishop of the sede vacante of the Diocese of Ahiara (Nigeria), also assigning him the titular See of Rusgunie. Curriculum vitae H.E. Mgr. Simeon Okezuo Nwobi, C.M.F., was born on 25th March 1960 in Eziama Oparanadim
PROFESSOR ANTHONY AKINWALE WAS UNANIMOUSLY APPOINTED BY THE CBCN TO BE THE SUPPORT THEOLOGIAN FOR THE NIGERIAN DELEGATION TO THE SYNOD ON SYNODALITY IN ROME FROM WHERE HE WRITES THESE REFLECTIONS. Synodality and Ecumenism In our quest to be a more synodal Church, it is necessary but insufficient to journey together. We must differentiate between
Several Catholic churches in Nicaragua no longer enjoy the privilege of the Eucharistic celebration of the Holy Mass, due to the persistent arrest and detention of Catholic priests in the country by the autocratic regime of President Daniel Ortega and his wife and Vice-President, Rosario Murillo. Last weekend, two more Catholic priests; Fr. Yesner Cipriano