Owerri, 01 August, 2024 / 5:04 pm (ACI Africa).
The Year of Prayer in preparation for the Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year provides an opportunity for the people of God in Nigeria to pray for healing and reconciliation, Bishops in Nigeria's Ecclesiastical Province of Owerri have said.
Pope Francis announced the start of a Year of Prayer in preparation for the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year on January 21, the second in his Pontificate after the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy in 2015.
In his Angelus address on January 21, the Holy Father said that the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year is to be “a year dedicated to rediscovering the great value and absolute need for prayer in one’s personal life, in the life of the Church, and in the world.”
In a statement following their July 30-31 meeting, Catholic Bishops in the Nigerian Ecclesiastical Province underscore the importance of prayer amid Nigeria’s multifaceted challenges.
“Our states and communities are in dire need of prayer,” they say in the statement issued Wednesday, July 31 at the Sacred Heart Pastoral/Retreat Centre in the Catholic Diocese of Orlu.
