Pope Francis on Saturday called for the respect of ethical values in public life and politics as their absence was “hurting all of humanity”. “We are seeing a crisis of mankind which is destroying mankind,” the pope told a crowd of 200,000 people, most of them members of religious groups, in Saint Peter’s square. “If [...]
An Argentina court ordered a bishop from a town outside Buenos Aires to pay damages of $30,000 plus ten years’ interest to a priest sex abuse victim, according to the ruling released Monday. The appeals court ruling, handed down on April 9, came just days after Pope Francis, originally from Argentina, told Vatican disciplinarians to [...]
The Catholic Church in Benue says 70 of its churches have been destroyed in the crises that rocked Benue in the past few months. Rev. Felix Apine, Coordinator, Justice Development and Peace Commission (JDPC), an outreach arm of the Church, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Makurdi that the destroyed churches were outreach [...]
The deceased Boston bombing suspect recently described the Bible as a copy of the Quran during an argument about religion, a former neighbor claims. Al Ammon, whose apartment is in the same building in the Boston suburb of Watertown where Tamerlan Tsarnaev once lived, told CBS television’s “60 Minutes” that the dispute between the two [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan and former Prime Minister of Britain, Tony Blair graced today’s opening ceremony of the grand Cathedral Metropolitan Church of Christ in Lekki Lagos. The church built in eight years, is now valued at about $85million(N13.4 billion), according to the founding pastor of the church, Paul Adefarasin. At the unveiling ceremony of the [...]
Some religious leaders in Lagos State on Thursday attributed the increase in cases of rape to societal decadence and lack of parental care. In interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, the clerics said that the country also needed good leadership to revive the norms and values of the society. Monsignor Gabriel [...]
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, in one of his popular hit songs on religious leaders and their followers the world over, said pastors’ houses are always the best. According to Fela in pidgin English, “pastor’s house na hin dey fine pass.” But Fela did not reckon with the flashy wives of most Nigerian pastors when he sang that [...]
