As poor Nigerians are crying for hardship, some self proclaimed Pastors and Bishops are seriously becoming unreasonably rich. How come that those who climb on the pulpit to preach modesty are moving on private jets and Limousines whereas there Christians cannot afford a normal daily ration? Here is a serious and critical analysis of this phenomenon which if care is not taken, is going to bring to an end, sooner or later, the glory that most…
In their famously controversial book, The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, described religion as the opium of the people which, when taken in right dosage, benumbs the body and soul to suffering, shame and sin. The church, especially in Nigeria, has been so emblematic of the Marxian prognostication and turned otherwise educated men and women into robotic wimps, manipulated by pastor, prophets and prophetesses and recounting sometimes meaningless supplications to…
The biggest country in Africa that the United Kingdom colonised is Nigeria. The biggest country that the United Kingdom colonised in Asia is India (which then comprised the present Pakistan and Bangladesh). When the UK came into Nigeria and India, like all other countries they colonised, they brought along their technology, religion (Christianity), and culture: names, dressing, food, and language, among others. Try as hard as the British did, India rejected the…
Photo Courtesy of Sahara Reporters For an effective program of evangelisation to take proper root today and for us to avoid the mistakes of the past, a proper reading of our collective national history is inevitable. This phase of history has been so distorted that this now has serious implications today in how Muslims and Christians see one another and read their histories. For example, many Islamic scholars have often created the…
An intervention of His Excellency Rev. Mons. John Ebebe AYAH, Bishop of Ogoja (NIGERIA) at The Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Faith CHRISTIAN WITNESS IN THE FACE OF TERRORISM (BOKO HARAM): THE NIGERIAN EXPERIENCE INTRODUCTION Greetings to the Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI and to the Synod Fathers in this gracious year of Faith! I am glad to share with you the joys and anxieties…
VATICAN CITY, OCT. 19, 2012 . – Here is the intervention of Archbishop John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan of Abuja, Nigeria. The address was given at the Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization for the Transmission of the Faith. * * * Excerpts. Photo Courtesy of Ankwara.com, 23 Oct. 2009 First of all, I wish to thank very sincerely the Holy Father and this august assembly for the concern about and prayers for our…
Karen King, a professor at Harvard Divinity School, is interviewed outside the Augustinianum institute where an international congress on Coptic studies is held in Rome, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. Scholars are questioning the authenticity and significance of a much-publicized discovery by a Harvard scholar who reported that a 4th Century fragment of papyrus has provided the first evidence that some early Christians believed Jesus was married. Karen King announced the finding…
At the meeting in Rimini the president of the Nigerian conference of bishops launched an appeal to the international community “Put pressure on your governments, do not abandon us otherwise Nigeria will face destruction.” This appeal was launched by Mgr. Ignatius Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos and President of the Episcopal Conference of Nigeria. For months the country has lived in violence which mostly seems directed at the Christian community. The Archdiocese of…
Nigeria is said to be a Country, good and fine, but I am beginning to think that the idea we have of a country is different from what it ought to be. A nation should, I suppose, independent of the cultural, religious, climatic differences, share a common goal, a common purpose, and this should be expressed by the amount of peace and freedom that every member of the State enjoy in any…
One of those areas where the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate continue to show their love for the most abandoned and desire to assure that justice is not just a desire but a reality is in peace talk. Here is a good example of such involvement. In this article: Muslim clerics back gun amnesty in ARMM By John Unson[1] we can see a pratical example of such areas where the Oblates remain…
