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April 27, 2025 No Responses

Pope Francis Laid To Rest

Hundreds of thousands of mourners and world leaders including US President Donald Trump packed St Peter’s Square on Saturday for the funeral of Pope Francis, “pope among the people” and the Catholic Church’s first Latin American leader. Some waited overnight...

April 23, 2025 No Responses

World Leaders For Pope Francis’ Funeral On Saturday

World leaders from US President, Donald Trump to Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky said they would attend Pope Francis’s funeral on Saturday to honour the Catholic leader. The Argentine pontiff, 88, died on Monday from a stroke, less than a month after...

April 21, 2025 No Responses

Tinubu: Pope Francis, A Humble Servant Of God

President Bola Tinubu has described Pope Francis, who died on Monday morning as a humble servant of God.Tinubu in a statement he personally signed joined the Catholic faithful and Christians worldwide in mourning the passing of Pope Francis.Tinubu described th...

April 21, 2025 No Responses

Atiku Mourns Pope Francis

Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar has Pope Francis, who died on Monday morning as a shepherd of the most vulnerable who worked for a better and united world.Atiku in a statement said: “It is with a heart heavy with sorrow...

March 24, 2025 No Responses

Pope Francis Returns To Vatican

Pope Francis returned home to the Vatican on Sunday after more than five weeks in hospital with pneumonia, taking time before leaving to thank well-wishers for their support. Looking tired and worn, the 88-year-old Catholic leader waved to a crowd...

December 26, 2024 No Responses

Pope Francis Calls For ‘Arms To Be Silenced’

Pope Francis called Wednesday for “arms to be silenced” around the world in his Christmas address, appealing for peace in the Middle East, Ukraine and Sudan as he denounced the “extremely grave” humanitarian situation in Gaza. He used h...

December 29, 2022 No Responses

Warri Catholic Diocese Gets New Bishop

Pope Francis has appointed Msgr. Anthony Ovayero Ewherido as Bishop of the diocese of Warri, Delta State. He is currently the rector of Saints Peter and Paul, Seminary, Bodija, Ibadan. Oyo State. The declaration was announced on Wednesday by ...

July 25, 2022 No Responses

Pope Francis Arrives In Canada On First Stop Of Week-Long Trip

Pope Francis on Sunday arrived in Canada to apologise to residential school survivors on their lands for the Catholic Church’s operation of residential schools throughout the country. The Pope will make three stops in the course of his five-day tour...

January 3, 2022 No Responses

Catholic Bishop Urges Nigerians To Take Pope’s Message Seriously

The Bishop of Umuahia Catholic Diocese, Most Rev. Lucius Ugorji, has urged Nigerians to take Pope Francis’ New Year’s message seriously. Ugorji gave the advice in his homily on Sunday at the Mater Dei Cathedral Parish, Umuahia. He described the...

December 25, 2021 No Responses

Pope Francis’ Christmas Homily

Below is the full text of Pope Francis’ homily for the Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord, delivered Dec. 24, 2021 in St. Peter’s Basilica. In the darkness, a light shines. An angel appears, the glory of the Lord...

July 10, 2021 No Responses

Pope To Deliver Sunday Blessing From Hospital

The Vatican on Friday said Pope Francis recovery from intestinal surgery is continuing normally but Sundays prayer would be led from Rome’s Gemelli hospital. The Vatican said the pontiff is walking and working but he is not well enough to...

May 22, 2021 No Responses

Pope Francis To Get First Electric Popemobile From Fisker

Los Angeles-based Fisker Inc plans to supply the first pure electric vehicle for Pope Francis next year, it said on Friday, with features such as a solar roof and carpets made of recycled plastic bottles from the ocean.Fisker will covert its all-electric O...

April 4, 2021 No Responses

Pope Offers Easter Message Of Hope

Pope Francis, leading an Easter vigil service scaled down due to Covid-19, said on Saturday he hoped the dark times of the pandemic would end and that people could rediscover “the grace of everyday life”.This year has been the second...