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	USCCB - (MRS) - Nigerians
		Nigeria's first contact with the Christian faith dates to the sixteenth century when Portugal was a trading partner with the kingdoms of Benin and Warri in the southwestern region of modern Nigeria.
		Of the forty-seven bishops in Nigeria, forty-five are indigenous.
		Other feast days of significance to the Church in Nigeria are the Feast of Mary Queen of Nigeria celebrated on the first of October which is Nigeria's independence day, and the feast of Saint Joseph the Worker celebrated on the first of May, Nigeria's Labor Day.
	www.usccb.org /mrs/pcmr/ethnicities/nigerian.shtml (1490 words)

	Nigeria - ExampleProblems.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Nigeria borders Republic of Benin to the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, Niger in the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the south.
		Nigeria is divided roughly in three by the rivers Niger and Benue, which flow through the country from north-east and north-west to meet roughly in the centre of the country near the new capital city of Abuja.
		Northern Nigeria was the location of half of all documented polio cases in 2003, but Muslim clerics have repeatedly inveighed against the vaccine as an effort by Westerners to sterilize young Nigerian Muslim girls.
	www.exampleproblems.com /wiki/index.php/Nigeria (3688 words)

	Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria - A brief History of the Catholic Church in Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The evangelisation of Northern Nigeria was more difficult because of the implantation of Islam and its system of government, the initial mistakes of the Church Missionary Society (CMS), its link to colonial ambitions in the north, and the application of the Lugard exclusion from preaching to Moslems.
		The emergence of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria as an organ of unity of the local churches makes concrete the remarkable co-operation that existed among the bishops of Nigeria before 1950 when a local hierarchy was established.
		Institutions like the Catholic Secretariat, the regional Major Seminaries, the National Missionary Seminary of St Paul, and the Catholic Institute of West Africa are all aspects of strengthening the "catholicity of the undivided church" and testify to the maturity of the Nigerian church.
	www.cbcn.org /aspscripts/page1.ASP (2229 words)

	The Next Christianity
		In terms of liturgy and worship Latino Catholics are strikingly different from Anglo believers, not least in maintaining a fervent devotion to the Virgin Mary and the saints.
		On present evidence, a Southern-dominated Catholic Church is likely to react traditionally to the issues that most concern American and European reformers: matters of theology and devotion, sexual ethics and gender roles, and, most fundamentally, issues of authority within the Church.
		If, however, Church officials in North America or Europe proclaimed a moral stance more in keeping with progressive secular values, they would be divided from the growing Catholic churches of the South by a de facto schism, if not a formal breach.
	www.catholiceducation.org /articles/facts/fm0018.html (6770 words)

	mhtansinews1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Catholics have made available two planes for the movement of the Pope and his entourage and we heard that Kabo Airline has offered two planes for the occasion free of charge" he stated.
		The church, he also disclosed, inherited mobile toilets that were used for the last youth rally in Abuja aimed at persuading the head of state to succeed himself.
		IGBOEZUNU, Nigeria (Reuters) - Godwin Nneke's brother is just a step away from becoming Nigeria's first saint and Nneke hopes to be there Sunday when Pope John Paul II beatifies the former monk, putting him on the last stage before sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.
	www.munachi.com /mhtansinews1.html (2532 words)

	Religion in Nigeria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There has been growth in the Christ Apostolic Church (the first Aladura Movement in Nigeria) and the Aladura Church, an indigenous Christian sect that was especially strong in the Yoruba areas, and of evangelical churches in general, spilling over into adjacent and southern areas of the middle belt.
		Nigeria is arguably the country with the largest Muslim population in Africa.
		Islam came to Northern Nigeria as early as the eleventh century and was well established in the major capitals of the region by the sixteenth century, spreading into the countryside and toward the middle belt uplands.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Religion_in_Nigeria (2337 words)

	Roman Catholic Church Namibia
		Brief Historical Summary of the Roman Catholic Church in Namibia: The Prefecture of Pella bought Heirachabis in 1895 and occupied it in 1898.
		In 1943 Magistrate Trollop in Caprivi invited the Catholic Mission in 1943 to come and open educational and health facilities.
		While initially the Catholic Church had been very cautious, in the 1970's and 1980's she took a very definite stand in favour of human rights.
	www.rcchurch.na (528 words)

	CISA: Catholic Church in Africa called to improve pastoral outreach to prisoners - Catholic Online
		LIMBE, Cameroon (CISA) — The Catholic Church in many parts of Africa has not given due attention to pastoral care of prisoners, most of whom are ignorant of their rights and live in deplorable conditions.
		Churches should appoint qualified pastoral personnel for the prisons, and each diocese in Africa should set aside a week to observe ministry to prisoners each year, delegates at a regional conference said.
		The delegates recommended that prison pastoral care be given enough emphasis in the church at all levels through appointment of coordinators and provision of adequate training to prison pastoral workers.
	www.catholic.org /international/international_story.php?id=22096 (858 words)

	USA/Africa Dialogue, No 418: Catholic Church Representation and Popular Imagination
		However, on a spiritual path the Church during the 1993 political crises composed a "prayer for Nigeria" that is still being recited in Catholic Churches.
		At the moment the Catholic Church has seized upon the opportunity of sending someone to the conference but it has rather decided to be silent regarding the irregularities and illogicalities of the processes leading to the conference.
		The Nigerian Church, while not having to be antithetical always and assuming the role of a political opposition, must define itself as a Church of all people, and more as the supporter of the poor and marginalized, and a voice of reasoning in times of social chaos.
	www.utexas.edu /conferences/africa/ads/418.html (2650 words)

	The New Yorker: PRINTABLES
		But, unlike the Catholic Church, there is no Pope, no overriding single authority, and this is the source of the tension that is finally threatening to tear the whole thing apart.
		Nigeria was Christianized by the evangelical wing of the Church of England, a very fervent, orthodox, evangelical, and literalist brand of the faith.
		By this summer, one of two things is going to happen: the Episcopal Church in America may stay on its course and continue to endorse the consecration of gay people—three of their seven candidates for bishop of the Diocese of California are openly gay.
	www.newyorker.com /printables/online/060417on_onlineonly01 (2445 words)

	A.N.O. Ekwunife, CSSp - Integration of Traditional African Values in Priestly Formation
		Here he emphasizes that even though indigenisation of Church personnel, liturgy, theology and life was on paper the main concern at this period of seminary formation, in reality the seminarians were made to believe the contrary.
		The genuine religious interests of the Igbo Church have been made to suffer because of the misleading administrative jargon and metaphor that regarded Latin as "the language of the church".
		Catholic seminaries in Africa need to emphasize the sense of community living and values to cut across ethnic and social boundaries.
	www.sedos.org /english/ekwunife.htm (5277 words)

	World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Church bells rang across Rome and in many countries around the world as the news emerged, while state leaders - some of whom had attended John Paul II's funeral 11 days earlier - were quick to congratulate him.
		An ecstatic crowd of nearly 200,000 cheered and waved wildly as Ratzinger, the 265th pontiff in the Church's history, smiled and waved to acknowledge the applause from the curtain-draped balcony of Saint Peter's basilica.
		The iron-clad birth control policies promoted by John Paul II were embraced wholeheartedly by the Church in the Philippines, which has one of the highest birth rates in Asia and tens of millions living in poverty.
	www.dailynews.lk /2005/04/21/wld02.htm (639 words)

	Daily Headlines : Emergency rule in Plateau State:You can't sack Dariye•Rotimi Williams tells Obasanjo
		Meanwhile, Catholic Church in Nigeria has criticised the imposition of a state of emergency in Plateau State, describing it as a fire brigade approach that will not solve the intractable ethno-religious crises in the country.
		The church also frowned at the recent verbal attacks on the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, and an ordained clergyman by President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying that it was unbecoming of a statesman of such immense capacity.
		According to the church’s spokesman, the state of emergency, apart from reflecting bias, has amply demonstrated that the president has lost grip, adding that it is a bad precedence that will not translate to a way forward in stemming the perennial ethno-religious crises in Nigeria.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/headline/f123052004.html (1159 words)

	Vanguard - Headlines : Increasing attacks on Catholic Churches: These are signs that Nigeria is sick — Okogie
		Catholic Church and Convent were attacked by armed robbers.
		It’s very unfortunate that the Catholic Church has been at the receiving end of armed robbers in the recent times.
		Bishop Joseph Ojo is the national secretary of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN and also reacts to the attack on churches by robbers.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/headline/f120082005.html (1648 words)

	Islam Seen as Politicized in Nigeria - Catholic Community Forum Discussion Groups
		On this very account, the Church cannot stand by, indifferent as to the import and significance of laws enacted by the State; not insofar, indeed, as they refer to the State, but in so far as, passing beyond their due limits, they trench upon the rights of the Church.
		From God has the duty been assigned to the Church not only to interpose resistance, if at any time the State rule should run counter to religion, but, further, to make a strong endeavor that the power of the Gospel may pervade the law and institutions of the nations.
		On the contrary, she is (as she is bound to be) the upholder of those who are themselves imbued with the right way of thinking as to the relations between Church and State, and who strive to make them work in perfect accord for the common good.
	www.catholic-forum.com /forums/showthread.php?t=7342 (659 words)

	Roman Catholic Church News
		The Catholic Diocese of Honolulu and an O'ahu man last night reached an out-of-court settlement of a sex-abuse lawsuit on the eve of the scheduled start of trial.
		The new primate-elect of the Church of Ireland has called for the removal of the ban on Catholics, or those married to Catholics, from becoming British monarch.
		A priest suspected of stealing more than $600,000 from two churches has denied accusations in court documents that he was living a double life as a family man in a neighboring county.
	www.topix.net /religion/catholic (854 words)

	Syro Russian Orthodox Catholic Church
		The Orthodox Church is the original Christian Church founded by Jesus and continued by his Apostles.
		The Syro-Russian Synod is the body of Bishops of the Syro-Russian Orthodox Catholic Church, originally known as the American Orthodox Catholic Chuch (1892).
		It is a canonical autocephalous jurisdiction as it adheres to the Rudder (Canon Law) of the Holy Orthodox Catholic Church, the Teachings of Christ God, the Early Church Fathers, and the ancient customs of the Orthodox Christian Church.
	www.rbsocc.org (161 words)

	Catholic World News (CWN)
		His discourses on the Church of his youth show he was imperfectly catechised then, and, with a pathetic irony, the adult sometimes falls back on more recently learned pop-psych jargon that he grasps about as well as his catechism.
		Church documents refer to homosexuality as an intrinsic disorder, a pathological constitution, a perversion of nature, etc. and claim that homosexual acts are always wrong, always opposite to holiness; objectively sinful.
		It was, I believe, the President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops who said that the rebuttal to those who would exclude gays from the clergy lies in the lives of those priests who are "seeking each day not to be served but to serve their people." Orlando, consider yourself served.
	www.cwnews.com /offtherecord/offtherecord.cfm (2988 words)

	Print article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The life of the Church in all the continents was also supported last year with particular pastoral aid (21.6%), Mass intentions for priests in difficulties (13.8%), biblical apostolate (5.6%), means of transportation for programs of pastoral care (4.4%), media apostolate (3.8%) and support of nuns (2.9%).
		The association's press office in Australia reported that the Catholic Church in Russia was helped (with one million euros), as were inter-confessional projects (also about one million euros) and the Russian Orthodox Church (more than 720,000 euros), especially for the formation of priests.
		In regard to information and sensitization activities vis-à-vis the persecuted Church, of note is the publication of the "Annual Report on Religious Freedom in the World," whose latest edition -- presented to the press last June 27 -- brought to light the substantial problems connected with the vulnerability of this human right in 2005.
	www.catholic.net /global_catholic_news/print.phtml?news_id=92768 (447 words)

	Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome
		ROME, AUG. 28, 2006 (Zenit.org).- The Catholic Church in Nigeria is poised to play a key role as the country goes to the polls.
		Father Peter Audu, a priest from the Archdiocese of Kaduna in northern Nigeria, recently told Aid to the Church in Need that the bishops' Justice and Peace Commission has been chosen as one of six internal observers for next year's presidential election.
		Nigeria's elections come at a time of unrest for the country.
	www.zenit.org /english/visualizza.phtml?sid=93885 (304 words)

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		In the past 30 years, the Roman Catholic Church has seen its ranks triple to more than 110 million in Africa, and the continent now accounts for 10 percent of the worldwide church population.
		Its explosive numbers are beginning to influence the broader church, as priests and nuns from Africa now work as missionaries in the United States and Western Europe to shore up what they view as an erosion of the faith.
		This process of claiming the liturgy as their own, known in church terms as inculturation, is one reason experts say Christianity has caught fire in Africa.
	www.remnantofgod.org /art49.htm (1149 words)

	Dragnet (This Rock: March 1992)
		Australian Catholics are every bit as concerned and confused about their faith as are American Catholics (readers of this magazine excepted, of course--our readers always are concerned, but never are confused).
		The Church in Nigeria is growing especially fast--in fact, the whole country is. In Nigeria are found one in five Africans, or so say the guide books.
		Since Nigeria is a poor country by our standards (even though it is fairly well off by African standards), we can't expect the larger expenses to be picked up at that end.
	www.catholic.com /thisrock/1992/9203drag.asp (966 words)

	Liturgy of the Hours
		All three names refer to the same reality, the official prayer of the Church offered at various times of the day in order to sanctify it.
		Monastic and eremitical (hermit) practice as it developed in the early Church recognized in the Psalms the perfect form of prayer and did not try to improve upon it.
		Originally the practice of monks, it was also used by the canons of cathedrals and other great churches.
	www.ewtn.com /expert/answers/breviary.htm (1572 words)

	The Carpetbagger Report > Print > Mysticism bad, bizarre stories good (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		I was amused by a recent story in the Dallas Morning News about the rise of charismatic forms of worship in the Roman Catholic Church in Nigeria.
		The article chronicled the exploits of the Rev. Ejike Mbaka, a Catholic priest whose style is more akin to the “700 Club” than the often-staid Church of Rome.
		The story notes that not all Catholics are comfortable with services where people fall on the floor, scream and generally behave like “holy rollers” — a dismissive term for Pentecostal Protestants who believe in the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
	www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com /wp-print.php?p=4365 (249 words)

	VirtueOnline - News - NIGERIA: Dr Williams asked to censure Akinola over riot reaction
		The writers, a group of mixed nationalities and religions, all believed that the statement issued by the Roman Catholic Church in Nigeria, which appealed for calm, was far more effective.
		Nigeria's new law "denies gay citizens the freedoms to assemble and petition their government".
		Bishop Chane wrote of how the Episcopal Church in the US and the Anglican Communion "are engaged in a bitter internal struggle on the role of gay and lesbian people within the Church".
	www.virtueonline.org /portal/modules/news/print.php?storyid=3689 (712 words)

	A conservative pope \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		VATICAN CITY – Roman Catholics around the world reacted with a mixture of shock and joy to the announcement Tuesday evening that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, one of the most conservative and doctrinally orthodox of the church's cardinals, had been elected as the next pope.
		Church bells pealed throughout Rome just after six o'clock, echoing the great bell of St. Peter's, calling hundreds of thousands of people to St, Peter's Square to celebrate Cardinal Ratzinger's surprise elevation to the head of the Catholic Church.
		Though many observers had expected the cardinals to pick a more-moderate figure in order to unite the church's various factions, the fact that John Paul II had named 113 of the electors always made it probable they would name a man in the late pontiff's theological mold.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0420/p01s04-wogi.html (1337 words)

	Professor Incandela's "Catholic Social Thought" Online Resources
		The Association for the Rights of Catholics in the Church: a group seeking to promote justice in the Church and an egalitarian understanding of what it means to be the People of God.
		Church documents by subject: an alphabetical list of Latin titles along with the subject of the statement, and usually its author and date.
		The Catholic News Service: the oldest and largest news wire service specializing in reporting on religion, the Catholic News Service is the the primary source of national and world news that appears in the U.S. Catholic press.
	www.saintmarys.edu /~incandel/cst.html (9408 words)

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