Pope Francis on Saturday dissolved the leadership of the Knights of Malta, the global Catholic religious order and humanitarian group, and installed a provisional government ahead of the election of a new Grand Master. The change, which the pope issued Read more…
The Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, Matthew Hassan Kukah yesterday said it was important for the political actors, particularly the 2023 presidential candidates to listen to the young people, understand their frustrations, and align their agenda toward assuaging Read more…
Gunmen kidnapped dozens of worshippers attending Friday afternoon prayers at a mosque in Nigeria’s northwestern state of Zamfara, police and witnesses said. Armed gangs are rife across Nigeria’s northwest where they rob or kidnap for ransom, and violence has been Read more…
Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested a 48-year-old Pastor, Michael Abiodun, for forcefully having a canal knowledge of a 12-year-old church member and consequently impregnating her. The Pastor, a father of three, with his church located in Read more…
An American nun in her eighties who U.S. federal officials said was kidnapped in Africa nearly five months ago has been found alive, the Catholic Church reported Wednesday. Sister Suellen Tennyson, a member of the Marianites of Holy Cross in Read more…
The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has congratulated the Catholic Bishop of Ekwulobia Diocese, His Eminence Peter Cardinal Okpaleke who canonically received the Red Hat from His Holiness, Pope Francis, at a Consistory in Rome, on Read more…
The governor of Anambra State, Chukwuma Soludo, and his wife, Nonye, attended the swearing in of the Bishop of Ekwulobia, Peter Okpaleke, as a cardinal by Pope Francis in Rome. Okpaleke was part of the 20 new cardinals sworn in Read more…
Pope Francis called Daria Dugina, the daughter of an ultra-nationalist Russian philosopher who applauded the war on Ukraine, an “innocent” victim of the war on Wednesday, eliciting criticism from Ukraine’s ambassador to the Vatican. “The madness of war,” Francis said Read more…
Pope Francis has quashed rumours that he plans to resign anytime soon but his planned visit next weekend to the Italian city of L’Aquila will underscore the Catholic Church’s need to regulate the status of pontiffs who step down instead Read more…
The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, His Grace Most Rev. Ignatius Kaigama, has urged the Federal Government to liberate Nigerians, especially the youth, from the nation’s current harsh economic realities. According to him, many young people were desperately seeking greener pastures Read more…
A Nigerian court on Wednesday ruled that Islamic religious law does not violate the constitution, dismissing a test-case challenge from a singer who was sentenced to death two years ago on the charge of blasphemy. But in a majority decision, Read more…
Rev. Fr. Godfrey Gopep, the Parish Priest of St Finberrs’ Catholic Church, Rayfield, Jos, has advised Nigerians to freely vote persons with credible credentials and impeccable character in 2023. Gopep gave the advice in his sermon on Sunday in Jos, Read more…