June 6, 2026
News Nigeria

Vatican lauds CBCN on Communications week celebration

By PJ Usanga Responding to the report of the maiden edition of the Communications Week (ComWeek 2022), the Holy See has expressed her “sentiments of great joy and satisfaction to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN)” for what they described as a “very impressive report on the celebration of the maiden edition of the

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Pope: Priests are pastors, not functionaries

Pope Francis meets with seminarians and bishops from the Italian region of Calabria, and encourages them to adapt priestly formation to the signs of the times and to walk together in unity and fraternity. By Lisa Zengarini Pope Francis has urged Italian seminarians, formators  and bishops from the southern Italian region of Calabria, to address

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Archbishop Ukpo laid to rest amidst encomium galore

By Fr Michael Nsikak Umoh The President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN), Most Rev. Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, is among the many prelates and lay faithful who poured glowing tributes on Archbishop Joseph Edra Ukpo during his funeral Mass at the Sacred Heart Catholic Cathedral in Calabar on Thursday 23 March, 2023. The

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Nigeria

Sermon: Archbishop Audu on 5th Sunday of Lent Year A

5th Sunday of Lent Year A “I am the resurrection and the life. If anyone believes in me, even though he dies he will live, and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this”? In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit: Amen!

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Pope reiterates call to ensure fundamental human right to water

  Pope Francis sends a message to participants in an event connected to the framework of the UN Water Conference taking place in New York, and calls for “concrete and effective” action to ensure the universal human right to access water, calling it is a right to life. Fundamental human right to water Pope Francis

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FUNERAL: Archbishop Joseph E. Ukpo

Please click on the link below to view album: FUNERAL: Archbishop Joseph E. Ukpo     To receive regular news, teachings and information about the Catholic Church and the Bishops in Nigeria, please send ADD ME to 090 6000 6198 by WHATSAPP

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APGA administration refutes accusation against Archbishop Okeke

The attention of the leadership of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has been brought to a tendentious, provocative, and malicious publication on social media maligning and disparaging the exalted personality and office of the Metropolitian of the Onitsha Archdiocese, His Grace, Most Rev. Valerian Okeke. The publication in question entitled: APGA CATHOLICS PETITIONS VATICAN, ACCUSE

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Archbishop Martins strongly condemns ethnic profiling in Lagos

ARCHBISHOP MARTINS CONDEMNS ETHNIC PROFILING CALLS FOR PEACE AND TOLERANCE

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Archbishop Ukpo Begins Final Journey Home

By Jonathan Ugbal It was with mixed emotions that the remains of the Emeritus Archbishop of the Calabar Metropolitan Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church, His Grace, Most Revd. Dr. Joseph Edra Ukpo was received at the St. Benedict Cathedral, Ogoja on Monday as part of the obsequies for his funeral. Ukpo, who has been

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