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FUNERAL MASS FOR FR. RAPHAEL ADEBAYO Today Thursday 12 January, 2023. 10am. Holy Cross Cathedral,
As the tempo of electioneering heightens ahead of the 2023 election in Nigeria, the Archbishop Emeritus of Abuja Archdiocese, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, enunciates the role of the Church in politics. The incisive, deeply researched and didactic paper was presented at the Second John Onaiyekan Annual lecture held on October 2, 2022 at the Loyola Jesuit
Faith and patriotism, panacea for a new Nigeria, says Bishop Dugu By Rachel Kogi, CSN While Nigerians celebrate sixty-two years of nationhood amidst economic hardship, they are encouraged that prayer, faith and patriotism are the panacea for repositioning the country as they elect leaders in the forthcoming general elections. The new Catholic Bishop of Katsina-Ala
Warning! warning!! To All Parents!! This bottle they are holding is not Zobo. It is called SKUNCHIES made by socking marijuana in water for a day or two, they will then extract the water, add mkpulumili, ethenol and Zobo color. They call it king of highness and mostly sold in Lagos but now in Southeast
Pope’s October prayer intention: A Church that walks together Pope Francis releases his prayer intention for the month of October, in which he asks that the Church be one of synodality, which means walking together, along the same road. By Francesca Merlo As is customary at the beginning of every month, Pope Francis has released
Catholics in Osun hold first synod as bishop asks Nigerians to shun politicians’ money As the Catholic Diocese of Osogbo, Osun State, is holding its first synod, the Bishop of the diocese, Most Rev. John Oyejola, has informed Nigerians that their votes make them more powerful than politicians and that they should desist from collecting
Fr. MBAKA: THE TRUE POSITION. 3 October, 2022 Going by an interview with the Director of Communications, Enugu Diocese, Rev. Fr. Benjamin Achi, Very Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka was not removed from the Adoration Ministry, as many reports are suggesting. Rather, according to Fr. Achi, since it was recommended that Fr. Mbaka takes time away
The archbishop also urged Nigerians not to lose hope as Nigeria marked its 62nd Independence anniversary. Ignatius Kaigama, the metropolitan bishop, Abuja Archdiocese, says Nigerians should deploy the positivity of their cultures to drive morality in line with religious teaching. Mr Kaigama, in his homily titled “A trusting faith that never fails”, held at Our
As Nigerian university lecturers enter their eighth month of strike, president Muhammadu Buhari has listed the minister of education Adamu Adamu among the recipients of national honours – an order of awards given to citizens and sometimes foreigners in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the nation’s development – to the chagrin of many Nigerians.
The Holy Father, Pope Francis has appealed to the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, to ‘stop the spiral of violence and death’ in Ukraine and denounced the ‘absurd’ risk to humanity of catastrophic nuclear war a s tensions escalate. On the seventh-month war as he addressed the public in St. Peter’s Square, last Sunday, the Holy Father also called on Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy to ‘be open’ to
By Francesca Pollio Fenton Denver Newsroom, Oct 2, 2022 / 00:00 am Guardian angels are instruments of providence who protect their charges from suffering serious harm, and care for their salvation. It is a theologically certain teaching that every one one of the faithful has his or her own guardian angel from baptism, and it is