Abuja, 07 August, 2023 / 3:49 pm (ACI Africa).
The Archbishop of Nigeria’s Abuja Archdiocese has blamed the religious and ethnic divisions in the West African nation on the people’s bitterness and their failure to listen and act upon the Word of God.
In his Sunday, August 6 homily at St. Augustine’s Pastoral Area, Pyape II of the Archdiocese of Abuja, Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama underlined the need to listen attentively amid the current world’s distractions.
“The failure of listening to God and acting on what we have heard is the reason for most of our suffering in the world. It is the same reason why we cannot remain cohesive in our country as one people and one nation,” Archbishop Kaigama said.
He added that ignorance of Scripture is also causing more injuries to Africa’s most populous nation due to “bitterness and prejudices” that Nigerians express based on religious and ethnic grounds.
Archbishop Kaigama who has been at the helm of the Archdiocese of Abuja since December 2019 found it unfortunate that even in religious and worship places, some people fail to listen to the Word of God.
