Luisa Campbell’s appointment as Secretary General of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Scotland has been met with praise and optimism, as it is expected to strengthen the principles of subsidiarity and co-responsibility within the Church.
Fiery Nigerian cleric, Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo has called for healing and restoration after visiting various Plateau communities sacked by suspected Fulani terrorists who have left memories of silent graveyards and ruined households.
In his 2026 Easter Message, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, North-West Nigeria, Most Rev. Dr. Matthew Hassan Kukah disclosed that “Our land will heal not by the power and the sizes of our armies, guns and bullets.” He contended that “We need a new set of eyes to identify these traitors because it is their greed that has helped to sustain this ugly war.”
Amid the war in the Middle East, the Holy Father Pope Leo XIV has called for an end to war, injustice, and isolation, which threaten global peace.
The Papal Preacher, Father Roberto Pasolini, OFM Cap, has urged Christians to choose good, not to return evil and to be patient in the face of trials in imitation of the Lord Jesus.
Like his predecessor, the Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, has urged everyone around the world to stand on the side of the oppressed, following the example of Jesus, who offered himself as a sacrificial meal.
The Holy Father, Pope Leo XIV, has appointed Nigeria’s vocal Prelate, Most Rev. Dr. Matthew Hassan Kukah, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, as a member of the Council of the Dicastery for Integral Human Development, Vatican City.
The Justice, Development and Peace Commission (JDPC) of the Jos Archdiocese in North-Central Nigeria has described the Palm Sunday attacks at Angwan Rukuba as deliberate and well-coordinated operations executed on a clean slate, without any culprit apprehended by law enforcement agencies.
A Catholic priest has likened the photo of a Jos mother, who was inconsolably holding the lifeless body of her young man, Mr. Promise, a victim of the recent sporadic gunfire by suspected Fulani Islamist militants, to Michelangelo Buonarroti’s 1498 Pietà, which depicts Our Lady holding the lifeless body of Jesus.
African theologians, comprising scholars, pastoral workers and consecrated men and women, have decried the cancers of poverty, corruption, and suffering while pointing to theological formation and sound catechesis as panacea.
