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52ND ANNNIVERSARY OF THE EXPULSION OF THE CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES FROM NIGERIA (18 FEBRUARY 1970 – 18 FEBRUARY 2022)

By Rev Fr Angelo Chidi Unegbu ([email protected]) At the beginning of the Nigeria-Biafra War in 1967, the missionaries were ordered, or rather given the permission to leave Nigeria for their own safety, but they all decided to stay with their…

Angelo Chidi Unegbu
February 18, 2022

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50 YEARS AFTER THE EXPULSION OF THE CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES FROM NIGERIA (FEBRUARY 18, 1970 – FEBRUARY 18, 2020): LESSONS FOR THE CHURCH TODAY

The foreign mission of the Holy Ghost Fathers (Catholic missionaries) to Nigeria that began in December 1885 and ended in February 1970 recorded great successes. Yet, the mission was chequered with suspicion, quarrels, litigations, imprisonment, sickness, death and deportation. 1)…

Angelo Chidi Unegbu
February 18, 2020