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Mission Sunday and Digital Missionaries: The Day After (By Bishop Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo)

Thousands of digital missionaries who had been proclaiming the Gospel online met virtually and in person with Vatican officials who encouraged them in their service to the Church

By Bishop Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo: Oyo Catholic Diocese (www.CatholicDioceseOyo.org). The period right after Mission Sunday is time to appreciate the good effort of Catholic parishes and communities in responding so positively and contributing to the universal celebration. Thanks to priests, consecrated persons, catechists and others pastoral agents who catechized and…

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Olympics opening ceremony 'Last Supper' scene: Message from Most Rev Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo, Bishop, Catholic Diocese of Oyo

Christians should exercise their right of outrage and boycott

The religious depictions of Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” painting with contemporary ideological figures that are clearly offensive to Christianity at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games 2024 in France is to say the least shocking and disrespectful. Sadly, it is a perpetration of deliberate ongoing attempts in…

Catholic Diocese of Oyo, Nigeria
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Special Message to the Nigerian Elderly and Grandparents

Pray and Persuade your descendants and others never to forget the land of their birth like old Jacob and Joseph did in the Old Testament

As the universal Church, through The Holy Father, Pope Francis has asked us to do, the Catholic Diocese of Oyo (https://CatholicDioceseOyo.org) today celebrates the gift of all our elderly and grandparents. You are a gift and treasure to us especially in Africa and will always be cherished. I greet you…

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Believe and Take Responsibility: A Christmas Letter to the Youths

Define your plans clearly in the face of those challenges and follow up with a firm, prayerful resolve

Dear Young People,  I wish to express my vote of confidence in you and in your ability to do well in life and to carve something good out of our world despite economic and political woes, challenges in the education sector and moral deficiency in high and low places all…

Catholic Diocese of Oyo, Nigeria
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Advent Charge: No Christmas with War and Hunger

Spare a thought and take action this Christmas for the poor, the sick and suffering, the oppressed, victims of violence, greed, racism, tribalism and so on

It is still right to say if we did not have Christmas, we would have had to invent it today. With all the strife conflict, bloodshed, hunger, suffering, abuse and injustice all around, the world needs Christmas, not every year but every day. By that I mean the world needs…

Catholic Diocese of Oyo, Nigeria
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May 1: Awaiting a Happier Workers’ Day (By Most Reverend Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo)

The Catholic Church has always taught that there is dignity in labour and that work is a vocation with a spiritual dimension

By Most Rev Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo: Bishop, Catholic Diocese of Oyo (www.CatholicDioceseOyo.org) Workers’ Day, May 1st every year all over the world, necessary calls for an evaluation of work, workers and working conditions all around the world. This is because work is one indispensable resource by which God made man and by…

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Easter Message of Bishop Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo, Bishop, Catholic Diocese of Oyo, Nigeria: We Must Rise up to a New Life

Easter is the accomplishment of the mission of Jesus to reconcile the world to God

By Bishop Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo Easter is Good News for All Easter Sunday commemorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. It is good news, no matter how bad things are around us. Life overcomes death, good wins over evil and truth triumphs over the falsehood of sin. After…

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LENT 2023: Nigerians Knocking on Heaven’s Door (By Bishop Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo)

The three pillars of Lent, prayer, fasting and almsgiving must go together

By Bishop Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo Lent, is a 40-day season of great hope for Christians. Leading up to Easter, it calls for repentance, the mobilisation of all human, material, and spiritual resources to attract God’s mercy and favour on our personal lives and that of our country. This is important…

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THE LANGUAGE OF CHRISTMAS IS LOVE: Christmas message of Most Reverend Emmanuel Adetoyese Badejo, Bishop, Catholic Diocese of Oyo

God could have seized the palace of King Herod to have his Son born there but he chose a lowly manger

Christmas speaks God’s word to our broken, suffering world and his language is love. That fact will never change. The Bible teaches: “At many moments in the past and by many means, God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets: but in our time, the final days, he has spoken…

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Richard Cardinal Kunia Baawobr: Your Optimism Will Keep the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) Going

The new President of SECAM showed the direction he wanted SECAM to go, through his adoption of a synodal and inclusive style of procedure

Richard Cardinal Baawobr, Bishop of Wa, Ghana, President of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) and one of the recently created cardinals in Africa who died on Sunday 27 November, 2022 at the Agostino Gemelli hospital in Rome at the age of 63, was a symbol…