A host baking machine for the Benedictine Sisters in Umuoji Benedictine life is flourishing in the abbey of Saint Scholastica, in Umuoji, Southern Nigeria. One hundred and fourteen sisters live here, following the Rule of Saint Benedict, and vocations continue to be plentiful. They live according to the renowned Benedictine principle of “Ora and Labora” …
Category archives: West Africa
Nigeria – A Dark Holy Week.
Fulani herdsmen slaughter over 30 IDPs in Africa’s most populated country The latest case of violence carried out against mostly Christian farmers in Central Nigeria has left at least 35 dead. On Holy Saturday, April 8, an attack on internally displaced people (IDPs), carried out by Fulani herdsmen, caused nearly three dozen fatalities and countless …
Nigeria – Christian leader hoping new leaders will have “the common good of everybody at heart.”
Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu, the president elected of Nigeria who will be asserted in May, comes from a region famous for interreligious harmony and is married to a practicing Christian. Christians hope he will be an improvement on President Buhari, who has been accused of being soft on radical Islam and Fulani violence. Nigerian Catholics …