Nigerian bishop says ‘weaponization of identity’ breeds hatred
The weaponization of identity breeds hatred and conflict, says a leading Nigerian prelate.
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by bcadmin | Nov 7, 2022 | anti-Christian violence, Bishop Matthew Kukah, Church in Africa, lead, News, Nigeria, Nigerian bishops | 0 |
The weaponization of identity breeds hatred and conflict, says a leading Nigerian prelate.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 21, 2022 | Bishop Matthew Kukah, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, News, Nigeria, Nigerian bishops | 0 |
While the Catholic Church continues to play its part in helping people in Nigeria, the policies of the current government obstruct a clear path toward peace and reconciliation between Christians and Muslims, said Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 18, 2021 | Aid to the Church in Need, Bishop Matthew Kukah, Catholic Church, Christian persecution, Church in Africa, lead, News, Nigeria | 0 |
Bishop Mathew Kukah of Sokoto says “our people have risen to the challenge” of Islamic terrorism in Nigeria.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 21, 2021 | Aid to the Church in Need, Bishop Matthew Kukah, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, News, Nigeria, Seminarians | 0 |
The pontifical charity Aid to the Church in Need hopes to raise $51,000 to erect a security wall around the major seminary of the Good Shepherd in Nigeria’s Sokoto Diocese.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 7, 2021 | Bishop Matthew Kukah, Boko Haram, Catholic Church, Church in Africa, lead, News, Nigeria, Nigerian bishops, President Muhammadu Buhari | 0 |
A Nigerian bishop has drawn the ire of the government after saying the country has become a killing field under President Muhammadu Buhari.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 15, 2021 | Anti-Christian persecution, Bishop Matthew Kukah, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, News, Nigeria, Nigerian bishops | 0 |
The Christian Association of Nigeria told a group threatening Bishop Matthew Kukah of Sokoto to stop and said security agencies must ensure his safety.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 17, 2020 | Bishop Matthew Kukah, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the Middle East, Father Augusto Zampini, G20, Interfaith, News, Saudi Arabia, second | 0 |
COVID-19 provides an opportunity for people to prepare the future, and religious leaders have an opportunity to make sure that preparation includes the world’s most vulnerable, said Catholic participants in the annual G-20 Interfaith Forum.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 29, 2020 | Anti-Christian persecution, anti-Christian violence, Bishop Matthew Kukah, Boko Haram, Catholic Church, Fulani, Genocide, In Defense of Christians, lead, News, Nigeria, Nigerian bishops, Uncategorised | 0 |
Nigeria has had over 50,000 people killed since 2009 due to the Boko Haram insurgency, which has also displaced over 2 million people. In the country’s “Middle Belt” – where the Muslim North meets the Christian South – Muslim Fulani bands have killed thousands of Christians.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 15, 2020 | Africa, Bishop Matthew Kukah, Boko Haram, Catholic Church, Church in Africa, lead, News, Nigeria | 0 |
Following a June 10 report by the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) that nine of the ten “most neglected displacement crises in the world” are found in Africa, one Nigerian bishop is warning against blaming the West for the situation.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 14, 2020 | anti-Christian violence, Bishop Matthew Kukah, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, martyrdom, News, Nigeria, Nigerian bishops | 0 |
A murdered Nigerian seminarian had the courage of a martyr, his bishop said after three men were arrested for murder and kidnapping.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 13, 2020 | Bishop Matthew Kukah, Catholic Church, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Interviews, lead, News, Nigeria, Nigerian bishops | 0 |
Nigeria’s people are “coping well” in the face of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, according to one bishop.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 12, 2020 | Bishop Matthew Kukah, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Africa, News, Nigeria, Nigerian bishops | 0 |
Describing a seminarian who was kidnapped and killed by terrorists as a martyr, a Nigerian bishop urged worshippers at the young man’s funeral to uphold their faith and demand that the country’s president protect people of all faiths in violence-prone areas of the country.
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