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  • JUST IN: Herdsmen invade seminary, shoot catholic priest, injure students

    JUST IN: Herdsmen invade seminary, shoot catholic priest, injure students

    There was pandemonium again on Monday as gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen attacked a minor seminary in Jalingo, Taraba State capital.

    Two Catholic priests were reportedly shot and students of the seminary beaten to a stupor. Some cars were also destroyed.

    While the persons injured were said to be receiving treatment at the Federal Medical Centre, it was not yet clear if people were killed.

    The Director of Caritas Nigeria, an agency of the Catholic Church, Rev. Fr. Evaristus Bassey, revealed this in a WhatsApp message to our correspondent.

    He said, “Please Frs, pray for us. Our minor seminary in Jalingo has just been attacked by the Fulani, some students are injured, some cars destroyed, two priests beaten and one shot on the leg. They are currently receiving treatment at FMC.”

     

    Details later…

  • Tension as herdsmen attack, kill two people returning from Catholic priests’ burial

    Tension as herdsmen attack, kill two people returning from Catholic priests’ burial

    There was pandemonium again in Benue State as persons suspected to be Fulani herdsmen attacked and killed two people along the Naka/Makurdi Road.

    The incident was said to have occurred on Tuesday while the deceased were returning from the burial of the Catholic priests and 17 parishioners killed by herdsmen earlier in the week.

    The deceased, who were said to be riding on a motorcycle, were said to have been ambushed by the herdsmen who reportedly slaughtered them.

    Naka/Makurdi road, which is a federal road, has been abandoned for a long time due to the activities of herdsmen along the federal highway.

    A native who confirmed the incident said, “The two men were returning from the burial of the Catholic priests and the parishioners when they were attacked by herdsmen.

    “Naka/Makurdi highway has been abandoned since herdsmen invaded Naka a few weeks ago. Anyone coming to Makurdi from Naka has to pass through the major road to Taraku, making the journey of 30 minutes’ drive to result in two and a half hours’ journey.

    “I think the deceased just decided to take the route; unfortunately, they were killed,” the local said.

    Efforts to get the state Police public relations officer, ASP, Moses Yamu, were not successful, as he did not respond to his call.

    The state governor, Samuel Ortom, however confirmed this while receiving in audience on Thursday, the Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka.

    “Killing is still ongoing. Just on Tuesday, two people returning from the burial were killed along Naka/Makurdi road,” Ortom told his visitor.

  • Gunmen abduct Catholic priest in Edo

    Gunmen abduct Catholic priest in Edo

    Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted a Catholic Priest, Rev. Lawrence Adorolo, in Edo State.

    Rev. Adorolo, who is‎ the Parish Priest of St. Benedict Church, Iddo 2, Okpella of Auchi Diocese, was abducted along Auchi-Okene highway at about 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday while returning from Igarra in Akoko-Edo local government area of the state.

    He was abducted at Okpella road in Igarra where he attended the “Month Mind” of the oldest Priest of the Auchi Diocese, late Fr. Lawrence Balogun, at St. John Apostolic Church, Igarra.

    The priest was driving in his Mercedes 350 ML, dressed in his white Cassock and accompanied by a boy when he was abducted.

    Details later…

  • Celibacy should be scrapped, we are dying of loneliness – Catholic priests tells pope

    Celibacy should be scrapped, we are dying of loneliness – Catholic priests tells pope

     

    A group of senior priests in Germany has called on the Roman Catholic Church to end the celibacy rule in priesthood.

    The 11 high ranking clerics, who were ordained in Cologne in 1967, are of the opinion that every man should have the right to choose to take the vow or not as other Protestant and Orthodox Church pastors have

    They wrote the letter as part of a review of their 50 years in the Catholic Church.

    A group member Franz Decker told DW, “We believe that requiring that every man who becomes a priest to remain celibate is not acceptable.

    “We think, every Catholic should be allowed to choose if they would rather be celibate or not, regardless of whether they want to work as priests or not – just like in the Protestant Church or the Orthodox church, really, every church but the Catholic Church.”

    To the group, celibacy causes many modern priests to suffer from seclusion and believe the men have little to gain from church-imposed solitude.

    “What moves us is the experience of loneliness – as elderly people who are unmarried because our office required this from us, we feel it vividly on some days after 50 years on the job. We agreed to this clerical life because of our jobs, but we didn’t choose it,” the group wrote.

    They also gave a number of suggestions as to how the Catholic Church could “modernise”, including allowing women to join the clergy.

    However, the office of Pope Francis is yet to react to the open letter