When I go through the discussions and deliberations we had this year on my page, I have every reason to thank you, my dearest friends for making the year a lively one despite all odds. Together we celebrated, we cried,…
During the 19th century Christian mission in Africa, Religious Education in schools was introduced simply as an extension of catechism classes or Sunday school. This served the purpose of conversion or grooming those already converted in the faith of the…
By Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu ([email protected]) 25.12.2021 1) Owing to the daily betrayals, heartbreaks and disappointments, many Igbo sons and daughters no longer want to hear anything concerning teamwork. Many just want to do their own thing. Unfortunately, there is…
On 24 December, 1818, Fr Josef Mohr who was a priest in St Nicholas parish in Oberndorf, Salzburg Austria visited Franz Xaver Gruber, the parish organist. Fr Mohr handed Gruber a poem he had written some years before then to…
Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu (17.12.2021) Once upon a time, there existed a soothsayer in a small village. He was known for ancestry search. This means he was able to tell those who consulted him about their ancestral lineage up to…
Among many African Christians there are always spirits incharge of every unfavourable situation. There are, for instance, spirits in charge of poverty, barenness, road accidents, fire outbreak, cancer, fibroids, mental sickness and so on. Hence it does worry us that…
1) Why was it possible that less than 2000 colonialists were able to colonize the whole of Africa? Answer: teamwork. The colonialists were united. 2) Why was the African resistance against the colonialists not sustained? Answer: lack of teamwork among…
We are economically poor not because God has not blessed us but because we have not understood the connection between wealth and teamwork. Show me any sustainable investment that is not built on teamwork. If you think that you know…
One popular cartoon that many of us know is that of a man who was facing a python on a tree. At the foot of the tree is a lion waiting for him, and crocodiles are seen in the nearby…
The 3rd Sunday of advent is traditionally known in the Catholic Church as ‘Gaudete’. This word originates from the Latin introit of the 3rd Sunday of Advent: “Gaudete in Domino semper” which translates as “rejoice in the Lord all the…
