Father Thomas Dailey, O.S.F.S.
By Father Thomas Dailey, O.S.F.S. • Posted May 21, 2021
The light at the end of the pandemic’s tunnel is getting brighter. The Archdiocese of Philadelphia recently announced the easing of COVID restrictions for parish churches. Concomitantly, it launched a new initiative – “Nothing compares to being there” – to encourage the return of the faithful to in-person worship.
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AFRICA/NIGERIA - New cry of alarm from the Bishops on the serious insecurity in the Country Monday, 17 May 2021 bishops violence NIGERIA
Abuja (Agenzia Fides) - The state of Nigeria in different parts of our country with so much violence, insecurity and anxiety is a source of major concern to us Bishops. We are speaking to you, our people at various levels of government and across the nation, to see that this nation is in great danger unless we bring a new spirit, a new approach , say the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Onitsha and Owerri in a video message in which they reaffirm the concern repeatedly expressed by the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria - CBCN on the country s insecurity. An insecurity due not only to the action of jihadist groups in the North, to armed gangs of Fulani shepherds in the center-north, and to widespread banditry everywhere, but above all to the corruption and inefficiency of the police, state and feder
May 17, 2021
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