Nigeria Catholic Network (NCN) is the one stop integrated network for all that concerns the Catholic Church in Nigeria. Here you find news and information on the structures, administration, sacramental life, institutions, groups, organs, events, and much more, in the Church in Nigeria. This is an initiative of the National Directorate of Social Communications, Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, (CSN), the Communication Office of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN)
FUNERAL MASS FOR FR. RAPHAEL ADEBAYO Today Thursday 12 January, 2023. 10am. Holy Cross Cathedral,
By Matthew Hassan Kukah Tutu demonstrated to us that when man meets moment and seizes the tide as Brutus said, times can change for an individual and a society. Against the backdrop of the collapse of Communism in 1989, what Francis Fukuyama would later call, end of history, the prospects for a new wave of Democracy
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By Rachel Kogi The environment is the mainstay of all human activities and the development of any society. As humans daily interact with their environment, issues of environmental degradation, destruction and utter abuse of the environment crop up. Nigeria, and indeed the entire world is battling with all forms of environmental pollution and degradation, leading
The Lux Terra Leadership Foundation on Tuesday January 11, 2022, held a full day training programme for 240 teachers of the College of Immaculate Conception, Enugu, on the Challenge of Re-parenting and Mentoring of Young People Today in a Life of Meaning, Purpose and Integrity. Facilitated by Fr George Ehusani and Dr Okey Ikechukwu,
With gratitude to God, the Catholic Diocese of Osogbo announces the demise of Msgr Nicholas Bamidele Okesola in the early hours of today Monday January 10, 2022. The burial arrangement will be announced later. Kindly pray for the repose of his soul. Fr Anthony Omodunbi Director of Social Communications Commission, Osogbo Diocese.
BY MICHAEL RUBIN Shortly before Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to Nigeria during his first visit to sub-Saharan Africa, the State Department, without explanation, removed Nigeria from its religious freedom watch list. The bipartisan U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom was ” appalled .” The problem in Nigeria, after all, has not just been
For his continued romance with bandits, the Department of State Services should invite popular Islamic cleric, Ahmad Gumi, for questioning, Christian youths under the aegis of the Christian Association of Nigeria (Youth Wing) said on Sunday. The organisation was reacting to the reported invitation of the Catholic Archbishop of Sokoto Diocese, Fr. Matthew Hassan Kukah,
By Paulette Ezuruike The Reverend Father Thomas Treacy was born to Thomas and Nora on April 25, 1945 in Ireland. He was ordained a Catholic priest on December 16, 1970 in Ireland, under the Society of African Missionary (SMA). He came to Nigeria that same year as a missionary and travelled to his country in
BY SAHARA REPORTERS, NEW YORK An employment tribunal has ruled in favour of Mary Onuoha, a Nigerian Catholic nurse, who was unfairly dismissed from her job at the Croydon University Hospital, England. Onuoha, according to a Daily Mail report, was bullied out of her job for wearing a cross around her neck at work despite
