News Around Christendom

By Fr George Adimike The celebration of birthdays and similar anniversaries are not just mere events in themselves; they are moments of acknowledging individuals who have left indelible imprints in the lives of others and great lessons for posterity. In a rather spectacular way, Mary, the mother of Christ, has touched and transformed lives through the centuries. Her life is ...

By Edoardo Giribaldi Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, joined Chilean Minister of Agriculture Dr. Esteban Valenzuela and FAO Chief Economist Dr. Máximo Torero at the United Nations agency headquarters for Latin America in Santiago, Chile, to deliver his address on the topic: “Prevent and reduce food losses and waste in the context of food and ...

Interreligious Exchanges, Community Development Projects and Interreligious Education” By Justine John Dyikuk and Isaac Umaru Abba Media professionals across Africa have pledged to entrench peace and dialogue towards reducing escalating conflicts in the continent. This commitment came at the heels of the just concluded refresher programme for the African Catholic Press Union of Burkina Faso (UCAP-Burkina) recently held in Cotonou, ...

By Rev Fr Victor Makinwa Ogunyemi There are different types of Catholics identified according to the manner they profess and exhibit themselves. They are as follows: 1 Catholics who are orthodox and very much faithful to the prescribed ways of professing and practising the faith. 2 Catholics who are never concerned about anything with Mary mother of Jesus Christ or ...

By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu The Anambra State Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Agency in collaboration with Wikimedia Foundation, has fixed Tuesday,15th August 2023 for Digital Literacy Training for Civil Society Organizations in the state. According to a statement signed by the MD/CEO of the Agency, Mr. Chukwuemeka Fred Agbata, CFA, the training is crucial in recognition of the critical role civil ...

By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control ( NAFDAC), has warned the general public that buying drugs from hawkers and fruits ripped with calcium Carbide is a complete aberration and could lead to death. NAFDAC Director General, Professor, Mojisola Adeyeye, FAS gave the warning last Tuesday in a programme organized by Association of Nigeria ...

By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu The National President of the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), Comrade Ambali Akeem Olatunji last Tuesday visited Anambra State where he affirmed Comrade Adigwe Chikwelu as the authentic President of NULGE in Anambra State. Olatunji who passed a vote of confidence on Chikwelu while addressing the members of the State Executive Council of NULGE at ...

Pope Francis arrives in Lisbon, Portugal, to kick off his 42nd Apostolic Journey abroad for the occasion of World Youth Day, joking with journalists aboard the papal flight that he will return to Rome “more youthful.” By Deborah Castellano Lubov Pope Francis has arrived in Lisbon, kicking off his 42nd Apostolic Journey abroad to the European nation of Portugal for ...

By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu The Anambra ICT Agency last Tuesday hosted Chiwetalu Okosi, the state’s UNDP focal person, at the Agency’s office in the State Government House, Awka, for a vital discussion regarding possible areas of partnership that would be of interest to both stakeholders. The meeting’s discussions centered on how the UNDP, in keeping to the memorandum of understanding (MOU) ...

….Calls For Concerted Effort By Mmaduabuchi Onwumelu Following the recent viral videos circulating on the Social media by some entertainers and AOPs where they were quoted to have ridiculed and debased Anambra State, the Commissioner for Culture, Tourism and Entertainment Anambra State, Comrade Don Onyenji, has called on those in showbiz, entertainment industry as well as On Air Personalities to ...

By Hannah Brockhaus At his first general audience in three weeks, Pope Francis praised the evangelization efforts of St. Mary MacKillop, a religious sister who devoted her life to providing Catholic education to the poor in rural Australia. “Mary MacKillop was convinced that the purpose of education is the integral development of the person both as an individual and as ...

By Lisa Zengarini The new challenges faced by Catholic education in our changing times need to be addressed with creativeness and imagination, and openness to sharing with one another, the Vatican says. “It is essential that clergy, religious men and women, and lay people all sing as one choir, and that lay people be given the chance to echo the ...

By Lisa Zengarini and Fr Stanislas Kambashi, SJ As the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) leads up to its general elections in six months’ time, the bishops of the Central African nation are calling on Congolese citizens to vote for competence and moral integrity, and to be vigilant so as to ensure a credible electoral process. On December 20, ...

By Fr Constantine Echichechi Okoli ComWEEK, the one week long programme of events leading up to this year’s celebration of the World Day of Communications came to an end on Sunday, 21st May, 2023. Speaking during the Mass marking the event, at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Awka, the Catholic Bishop of Awka, Most Rev. Paulinus Ezeokafor, represented by the Director of ...

By Rev, Fr. Constantine Echichechi Okoli Most Rev Paulinus Chukwuemeka Ezeokafor, the Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese, on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, took a tour of some of the roads under construction by the Prof Chukwuma Soludo led government of Anambra State, expressing happiness at what he saw. Bishop Ezeokafor visited two out of the many roads awarded for construction ...

Pope Francis has appointed Msgr. Anthony Onyemuche Ekpo as new Under-Secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, according to Vatican News. Until this appointment, Msgr. Ekpo had served as an official at the Section for General Affairs of the Secretariat of State. Msgr. Anthony Onyemuche Ekpo was born on 24 September, 1981 in Umudike, Imo State of Nigeria. ...

By Hannah Brockhaus Even when not called to the particular grace of martyrdom, every Christian is called to testify to Christ through his or her life, Pope Francis said on Wednesday. At his weekly audience with the public April 19, the pope quoted the Church’s dogmatic constitution Lumen Gentium to highlight a Christian’s obligation to be a positive witness of ...

By Linda Bordoni and Nathan Marley Pope Francis appealed for dialogue in Sudan as the country’s military battled a paramilitary group for control of the chaos-stricken nation for a second day on Sunday. Speaking during the Regina Coeli in St Peter’s Square, the Pope said he is following events taking place in Khartoum and elsewhere in the Horn of Africa ...

By Devin Watkins As France prepares to host the 33rd Olympic Games in the summer of 2024, Pope Francis has sent a message to French Catholics to urge them to get involved in the sporting events. The Pope’s message was signed by Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin and released on Tuesday. Paris hosts the Summer Olympics on 26 July ...

Pope Francis has washed and dried the feet of 12 residents of a Rome juvenile prison in a Holy Thursday rite symbolizing humility VATICAN CITY — In a Holy Thursday ritual symbolizing humility, Pope Francis washed and dried the feet of a dozen residents of a Rome juvenile prison, assuring them of their dignity and telling them “any of us” ...