On the 14th of March this year, many Christian communities celebrated their mothering or mothers’ Sunday in Nigeria. Today being 18th April, Catholics are celebrating theirs. This means that someone whose mother is Anglican and mother-in-law is Catholic will have…
I once reproached some Igbo Christians who were demolishing and setting on fire an ancient Igbo native shrine and sacred objects. They told me that it were the villagers or the family that invited them to destroy them. “We did…
1) Any sociologist who has followed meticulously the discussions generated by the Ada Jesus and Odumeje saga would not have any difficulties identifying the reasons for our economic woes and the reasons why Nigerian leaders play Ping-Pong with their citizens’…
Catholics among us will discover that today’s gospel reading taken from John 20:19-31 ends with the following sentence: “Jesus performed many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. But these are written…
“Honesty and fair dealing were pretty much taken for granted in the market. You could price a commodity and then take it out of the seller’s sight to ask the opinion of your friends. An article purchased and found bad…
By Rev. Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu ([email protected]) 1) During my 4th year (SS1) as a minor seminarian, I and my cousin and classmate Fr. Elias Chima Unegbu (of blessed memory) decided to spend our Easter holidays together at Owerri with…
By Rev Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu ([email protected]) 1) The story of the coming of Christianity in Arondizuogu began in 1910 with a blind man named Akweke. Akweke’s elder brother who incidentally was the village head learnt about the Iyienu Hospital…
1) The poor Pilate had nothing to gain with the death of Jesus but he had everything to lose if he had decided otherwise in opposition to the will of the people. With one voice the people demanded the death…
By Rev Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu 1) Do we realise that treason is considered to be the highest offence against the state? This means that the state can pardon a person for every crime but hardly does so when it…
I had wanted to reflect today on how communal meal had also existed in Igbo culture since time immemorial and on how we could build a bridge between the two. I wanted to analyse how meals in Igboland also bonded…
