A Communiqué issued at the end of the First Plenary Meeting of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) (https://CBCN-ng.org) at the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria Resource Centre, Durumi, Abuja, 5 – 11 March 2022: 1. PREAMBLE We, the Catholic Bishops of Nigeria, held our First Plenary Meeting for the year at the Catholic Secretariat […]
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Catholic Bishops in the South East have raised the alarm that Nigeria is in great danger ,calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to, immediately, adopt a new spirit and approach to governance and issues of security.
Speaking during an emergency meeting on the state of the nation, at the Basilica of the Most Holy Trinity, Onitsha, Wednesday, the bishops decried the rising wave of violence and insecurity across the country.
The meeting attended by bishops and auxiliary bishops of all Catholic dioceses in the South East was chaired by Archbishop Anthony Obinna of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province and hosted by Archbishop Valerian Okeke of Onitsha Archdiocese.
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1. Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa yesterday said the agency had recovered $150million from former Petroleum Resources Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke. Bawa made this known during an interview in a television station on Wednesday.
2. Catholic Bishops in the South East have raised the alarm that Nigeria is in great danger, calling on President Muhammadu Buhari to, immediately, adopt a new spirit and approach to governance and issues of security. They made the call after an emergency meeting chaired by Archbishop Anthony Obinna of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province.
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Auxiliary Bishop Moses Chikwe (center) of Owerri Archdiocese in Nigeria. (Photo: Vatican News)
During his nearly 15 years in southern California, Father Moses Chikwe was always up to something, even when he wasn t taking graduate courses at Loyola Marymount University and UCLA.
The Nigerian priest helped in parishes, visited the sick in local hospitals, served as a prayer group chaplain, and joined soccer matches after Sunday Masses were done. He even handed out rosaries to strangers on the Venice Beach boardwalk.