Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has described as disheartening and most disappointing for some leaders of the Country to come out boldly to support the gross injustice being perpetrated on Citizens. This is even as the Association urged all patriotic Read more…
Category: Religion
The Benin monarch, Ewuare II, on Wednesday, approved the appointment of Mr Igbinoghodua Edebiri as the new presiding priest of Holy Aruosa Cathedral, Benin. The approval of the new Ohen-Osa of Benin national church by the Oba is sequel to Read more…
A man described as the head of Islamic State’s (IS, formerly ISIS) recruiting network in Germany has been sentenced to 10 and a half years in a high-profile case that took more than three years to try. An Iraqi man Read more…
The Imo State government has given reasons for the arrest of some priests and leaders of white garment churches – Cherubim and Seraphim and Sabbath Missions – in some council areas in Orlu by soldiers. It said members of the Read more…
BY IFEOMA EJIOFOR The diocese of Nnewi Anglican Communion has rolled out a weeklong program to celebrate the twenty fifth years anniversary of the existence of the diocese. The program which is scheduled to begin j Monday 15th January is Read more…
A 101-year-old grandma has been discharged from Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, Ile-Ife, Osun State after she recovered from COVID-19. The grandma was on admission in a private hospital for treatment before the medical personnel of the hospital noticed she Read more…
Pope Francis apologised for staying sitting during an audience Friday, blaming the “troublesome” sciatica that has caused him to cancel several events in recent weeks. “I would like to speak to you standing up but sciatica is a troublesome guest,” Read more…
Fifteen minutes after President Biden was sworn in Wednesday, the Vatican released the text of the warm congratulatory telegram Pope Francis had sent the second Catholic U.S. president, after John F. Kennedy. Such telegrams are traditional for the pope — he sent Read more…
Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi has congratulated the Bishop of Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Most Revd (Dr) Matthew Hassan Kukah on his appointment into the papal dicastery on the promotion of integral human development. The Governor, in a personally Read more…
Pope Francis has appointed the Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, as a member of the Dicastery for the Promotion of Human Integral Development. The appointment was contained in a letter to Kukah signed by the Prefect of the Dicastery, Read more…
The Order of The Knights of Saint Mulumba Nigeria (KSM) has condemned the stance of the Federal Government on the ‘Apologize or quit Sokoto’ threat issued to the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Hassan Kukah, by the Muslim Solidarity Forum. Read more…
The Presidency has condemned the call on the Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev Matthew Kukah, to leave Sokoto State as unconstitutional and a violation of the clergyman’s rights. A group known as the Muslim Solidarity Forum had during a Read more…