By Courtney Grogan Pope Francis spoke out about inequality, the environment, sustainable development and the elimination of poverty during his visit to the United Nations’ agricultural development agency in Rome Thursday. “Few have too much and too many have little, this is the logic of today. Many have no food and go adrift, while a few drown in the superfluous,” ...

Last Monday, the Catholic world received the sudden news of the resignation of Bishop Ebere Okpaleke as the Bishop of Ahiara Diocese. His resignation followed a long drawn crisis that has lingered for close to six years in that diocese owing to the refusal of some Catholic priests and some lay faithful to accept him as their bishop. They had ...

Warning: Please if you are not dust, do not read this article. If you persist in reading through, then you bear the consequences. To be forewarned is to be forearmed. Any student who fails to read the instruction on the examination paper before writing is doomed to fail. Do not be faster than your legs, because life has no duplicate. ...

Last year, I witnessed the solemnization of matrimony of a young couple. The groom happened to be a man of the people and that attracted personalities from various areas of life. They both seemed happy as they tied the nuptial knot and walked down the aisle together. Gifts were showered on them and they danced exceptionally. I was happy and ...

1. PREAMBLE We, the Catholic Bishops of Nigeria, have held our First Plenary Meeting of the year at the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria,Durumi, Abuja, from 17 to 23 February 2018. Having prayerfully reflected on theways in which we, as a Church and a Nation, can fully enjoy the fullness of life promised us by our Lord Jesus Christ, we now ...

In order to enhance peaceful coexistence and forestall a breakdown of law and order between herdsmen and the host community in Umumbo Town in Ayamelum LGA of Anambra State, the Anambra State Police Command last Wednesday, summoned a stakeholders’ meeting between the community leaders and representatives of the Fulani herdsmen. Addressing the stakeholders, the Commissioner of Police, Anambra State Command, ...

For months now, the news has mainly been about Nigerians making their way to Libya in North Africa, from where some plan to cross over to Europe, while others choose to remain there to make quick money that never materializes. Even to get to Libya is a tortuous journey laced with danger and death. The journey to Libya is mainly ...

Our Fides Sports Profile Column is now open to numerous sportsmen and women, especially from Anambra and surrounding states who have excelled in the sports arena and sponsoring and promoting sports as well. Contact us if you have the profile at 08062608034  and fidesuceey@gmail.com. You can send us your profile and sports pictures as straight profile or using the following interview format. ...

By Francis Nlang On the 11th February, 2018, the Awka Diocesan National Federation of Catholic Students (NFCS) inaugurated her newly elected executives at Christ the King Catholic Chaplaincy, Federal College of Education Technical, Umunze The event began with a Holy Mass concelebrated by the outgoing  Chaplain,  Rev Fr Hyacinth Okafor and the incoming chaplain of the Awka Diocesan NFCS, Rev ...

The remains of a former two-time Deputy Rector of Federal Polytechnic Oko, Sir Dr. Donatus Ifeacho Mmuo (KSJI, JP), were on February 9, 2018, interred to rest in his Urunnebo Village, Enugwu-Ukwu Country home, Anambra State. At the final commendation for the deceased at the Federal Polytechnic, Oko on February 8, the rector of the polytechnic, Professor Godwin Onu, mni, ...

An Awka Diocesan Catholic priest and the assistant Cathedral Administrator II of St Patrick’s Catholic Cathedral, Awka, Rev Fr. Polycarp Okoye, has described Lenten Season as a spiritual period during which the faithful re-enact the 40 days and 40 nights’ desert experience of Jesus Christ. Rev Fr. Okoye, who stated this in his homily of the concelebrated Holy Mass of ...

An 11-Man team of new executive has been elected for the Catholic Laity Council of Nigeria, Awka Diocese, to sustain the formidable Laity Council which the Comrade Emma Ezeokafor led- exceptional executive built for the Church and the society. The new executive is expected to pilot the affairs of the Laity Council for a single term of four years. The ...

The Nigeria Conference of Women Religious (Awka Area) last Sunday, 18th February during their Lenten recollection, hosted by the Congregation of Daughters of Divine Love (DDL) at Arch-bishop Obiefuna Retreat and Pastoral Conference Center, Okpuno, Awka South Local Government Area solemnly called on God for His divine intervention on the peace of Nigeria. The recollection which had its theme as ...

In their bid to ensure that the Federal Government returns the principles of democracy to the Nigerian citizenry, the Catholic Bishops of Nigeria, under the aegis of Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, paid a courtesy visit to the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Gen Muhammadu Buhari, to discuss the state of the nation. During the meeting attended ...

During my primary school days at Our Lady of Fatima Boys’ Primary School, Jos, there was a slang we used in tracing the owner of a lost article. That three-word slang is: Lost and found. Once upon a time, one of the pupils in my class 3A slept off while a mathematics lesson was going on. He was snoring like ...

Hello pals, Hope you enjoyed our publication of ‘Benjamin, the Chinua of our time’. Lately, I was surfing the net and found a piece worth sharing, hope you will also find it interesting. “My earliest memory of my mum’s temper is from when I was a toddler and she was throwing books down the stairs at my dad. I was ...

A few days ago, I visited the Fides Website where I watched one of my directors, Rev Fr Obinna Dike on Youtube explaining the true meaning of lent and I was completely bowled over. He explained it in a way I had never heard it taught before. Perhaps that was what spurred me into going out there to talk to ...

The following is the Message of the Holy Father for Lent 2018 on the theme: “Because of the increase of iniquity, the love of many will grow cold” (Mt 24: 12). Message of the Holy Father “Because of the increase of iniquity, the love of many will grow cold” (Mt 24: 12) Dear Brothers and Sisters, Once again, the Pasch ...

Nigerians will never cease to amaze me. Daily, one sees, hears and reads things that can only happen in Nigeria; a land of a multitude of churches and even more supposed Christians. Yet, it is a country where the most bizarre lies are told; where the most heinous crimes are committed; where people will be praying with and for you ...

Catholic Olympic gold-medalist Yuna Kim lit the torch at the Opening Ceremony for the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea on Feb. 9. The Korean skating sensation has long expressed a desire to use her public role to share the light of Christ by witnessing to her Catholic faith in international competitions and performances. Kim was honored as the ...