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Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama, Archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Abuja has stated that the ongoing global crisis caused by the deadly coronavirus will reveal true clerics and individuals who set out to amass wealth for themselves under the guise of  “clerics”. The Prelate explained that, any cleric in the church whose paramount aim is to make money and not lead the flock to God amidst the pandemic is a businessman and not a true cleric. Archbishop Kaigama reiterated that “th is is the time to know who are true shepherds of the flock and those who are just engaged in work of religion in order to amass wealth for themselves or to acquire wealth and prosperity ”. “ But if you are a pastor or priest in order to acquire material wealth, in order to enjoy prosperity, then, I ’ m sorry, you ’ re not called by God. You ’ re a businessman or businesswoman and not a priest or pastor ”, he said. He further indicated that, clerics should not abandon the work of Go...

In a war situation, nobody asks anyone to stay indoors. You stay indoors by choice.  During a war, you don't insist on your freedom. You willingly give it up in exchange for survival.  During a war, you don't complain of hunger. You bear hunger and pray that you live to eat again. During a war, you don't argue about opening your business. You close your shop and run for your life. During a war, you are thankful to God for seeing another day in the land of the living. The world is currently in a state of war. A war without guns and bullets. A war without human soldiers. A war without borders. A war without cease-fire agreements. A war without sacred zones. The army in this war is without mercy. It has no respect for persons. Its ambition has nothing to do with racial superiority and its only agenda is a harvest of death. It has bases in almost every country of the world. Its movement is not governed by any war convention or protocol. It is a law unto itself. It is Coron...

John-Sebastian Laird-Hammonda, a member of the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America has become the first person to die of the novel coronavirus in the District, Rev Fr Larry Dunham, superior of the Monastery confirmed on Saturday March 21. Fr Dunham also revealed that, the Friar who was a Deacon often battled nausea after his treatments for leukemia but had seemed in to be in some of the best health earlier in February with a twist turn on him being diagnosed of the deadly coronavirus On his part, the Deacon had been at the monastery since the late 1980s and had for the last 14 years run its day-to-day operations as the business manager and  had recently been approved for a transfer to an order in New York, where he was going to be involved in fundraising efforts for missions in Central America. “It was going to be like a whole new focus and life for him,” he said. “That was to be his new assignment that never quite materialized”, he said. Mayor M...