One thing I like about the Church in Eastern Nigeria is that parishioners take appropriate care of their parishes. They do all they can to be sure that their parishes have the latest model of everything: latest alter with Italian White Carara Marble, the best tabernacle in the town, the latest Church building, the largest church halls, the most beautiful perpetual adoration chapels, the best-decorated grottos and the biggest houses in the…
As the debate over according amnesty to the deadly Nigerian Islamist group, The Boko Haram continues to tear apart sections of Nigeria intellectuals, politicians, religious leaders and ethnic groups, a prominent Nigerian, whose franc-speaking and courage has been noted at the international level, Mgr Hassan Kukah, the Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese puts forward his thought provoking argument on why there is need to accord the so called unknown group amnesty. The…
The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, on Saturday 10th November appointed Msgr. Fortunatus Nwachukwu, as the apostolic nuncio to Nicaragua. The bishop-elect was born in Ntigha, Nigeria in 1960 and ordained a priest on 17th June 1984. A priest of the Diocese of Aba in Nigeria, he has a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy (Urban University, Rome), and completed a Doctorate in Sacred Scriptures at the Biblical Institute in Rome, before transferring to the Jesuit Faculty, Sankt…
