An 84-year-old retired bishop of Albany, who has been accused of sexual abuse and has unsuccessfully sought to be removed from the priesthood, said Tuesday he recently married a woman in a civil ceremony. Emeritus Bishop Howard Hubbard made the Read more…
AS different reactions continue to trail the conduct of the February 25 presidential election, the Catholic Church and Society Department, has said the failure of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to upload results of the 2023 presidential election to Read more…
Pope Francis told a young transgender person that “God loves us just as we are” in a new podcast released Tuesday by the Vatican. Francis’ comments were featured in the second episode of Vatican Media’s “Popecast” ahead of World Youth Day — Read more…
Security agents have arrested an undisclosed number of suspected bandits, their wives and informants immediately after they returned from the just-concluded 2023 pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia. The suspects hail from Tsafe, Zurmi, Bungudu and Shinkafi local government areas of Zamfara Read more…
Pope Francis on Sunday announced that he would elevate 21 churchmen to the high rank of cardinal, again putting his mark on the group that will one day choose his successor after his death or resignation. The ceremony to install Read more…
Rt. Rev. Nneoyi Onen Egbe, a professor of radiography, is the Bishop of the Diocese of Calabar (Anglican Communion). In this interview, Egbe, who last taught at University of Calabar, speaks, among other issues of public importance, on the reported Read more…
Pope Francis will travel to Mongolia at the end of August, the Vatican confirmed on Thursday, indicating that his health is improving well enough after surgery to be able to go to the remotest area he has ever visited. The Read more…
The Vatican will study the modern-day killing of Christians and try to list “all those who have shed their blood” in the name of Christ since the turn of the century, Pope Francis said on Wednesday. In a letter released Read more…
Pope Francis said the burning of the Muslim holy book, the Koran, has made him angry and disgusted and that he condemned and rejected permitting the act as a form of freedom of speech. “Any book considered holy should be Read more…
The Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria has rejected a bill seeking to establish the National Council of Christian Education, contending that the proposed law violates sections 10 and 42(3) of Nigeria’s Constitution. Rather than promoting a bill that violated the Read more…
Pope Francis said on Friday there was no apparent end in sight to the war in Ukraine as his peace envoy wrapped up three days of talks in Moscow. “The tragic reality of this war that seems to have no Read more…
THE presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in the February 25 election, Mr Peter Obi has said that the situation in the country requires that those in authority must lead by example. Obi, who spoke at St Faith’s Anglican Read more…