Onitsha, 03 March, 2022 / 9:00 pm (ACI Africa).
Catholic Bishops in Nigeria’s Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province are calling on the people of God under their pastoral care to pray the Holy Rosary “daily and faithfully” throughout the Lenten Season imploring for peace in the Southeastern part of the country.
In a Monday, February 28 statement, the Local Ordinaries of Onitsha Archdiocese and the Dioceses of Ekwulobia, Enugu, Awka, Abakaliki, Awgu, Nnewi and Nsukka say Southeastern Nigeria which is covered by their Ecclesiastical See “has become a theater of ungodly and wanton destruction of life and properties.”
“We appeal to all as individuals, Families, Associations, Parishes to say their Rosaries daily and faithfully within this period of lent in order that this cloud of bloodletting hanging over our region will collapse like the walls of Jericho,” the Catholic Bishops say.
They express their fear for “forces of darkness and death” that seem to have cast their shadows over the Southeastern part of the country and which may lead to the loss faith in God and hope in man.
“Those who put their trust in the Lord can never be disappointed,” the Catholic Bishops of Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province say their collective statement, and call upon the people of God under their pastoral care to commit themselves to prayer “for peace and security” in the West African country throughout the Lenten Season.
