Tuesday, 26 November, 2024

Category: Religion


By Ezeakukwu Emmanuel Nsoedo On Sunday, February 13, 2022, a day preceding Saint Valentine’s day, Chinelo Edwin Ejimbe reached another milestone of his life of service. The ceremony took place at St Mary’s Anglican Cathedral Nnewi. He and his wife Read more…


The Advocate for Social Justice, a group concerned about the plight of Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, has advised the President Muhammadu Buhari led government to grant the leader of the Islamic movement, Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky and his wife, Malama Zeenatuddin Ibrahim Read more…


By Isaac Ojo 47 Catholic Archbishops and Bishops, including President Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, Most Rev. Augustine Akabueze; his predecessor Most Rev. Alaba Job, Emeritus Archbishop of Abuja, His Eminence John Cardinal Onaiyakan; Archbishop Valerian Okeke of Ecclesiastical Read more…


Over 3,873,000 bottles of assorted brands of alcoholic beer were, Wednesday, destroyed and burnt by the Kano State Hisbah Board. The landmark destruction exercise which took place at Kalabawa village,  along Kano /Dambatta Way, in the outskirts of the metropolis, was Read more…


Retired Pope Benedict XVI asked for forgiveness on Tuesday, days after a report faulted him for his handling of multiple reports of child sex abuse during the 1970s and ’80s. But he did not apologize or claim specific responsibility. Many Read more…


Catholic Archbishop of Abuja Catholic Archdiocese, Most Rev. Ignatius Kaigama, has advised politicians vying for political offices in the 2023 elections on what to do to win election and how to succeed when they eventually get elected. Archbishop Kaigama, in Read more…


Kwara State Muslim stakeholders, on Friday, urged the state government to enforce its policy on wearing of hijab by Muslim schoolgirls in all government grant-aided secondary schools. They made the call while addressing journalists in Ilorin over the Thursday violence Read more…


Ahead of 2023 general elections, Archbishop of Abuja Catholic Archdiocese, Most Rev. Ignatius Kaigama, has advised religious leaders, particularly in the Christian faith to desist from engaging in “political prophecy” that are often used to patronise politicians. He also tasked religious Read more…


The admission comes days after a report into sexual abuse in Germany faulted Benedict for his lack of action against four abusive priests when he was archbishop of Munich. Retired Pope Benedict XVI admitted on Monday that he did attend a meeting in Munich in 1980 Read more…


The body representing Catholic bishops in Spain has acknowledged that nearly 1,000 real estate properties across the country were registered as possessions of the Church despite having no proof of ownership or clearly belonging to others. The Catholic Church will Read more…


Pope Francis on Sunday for the first time conferred the lay Roman Catholic ministries of lector and catechist on women, roles that previously many had carried out without institutional recognition. He conferred the ministries at a Mass in St. Peter’s Read more…


The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has alleged that our schools are gradually becoming centres of killings, kidnappings, homosexuality, cultism and drug-related cases. This was even as it said this latest new trends if not tackled would endanger the future of Read more…