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Nigeria is “sinking in many fronts,” the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria, Archbishop Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji, has said. / Credit: Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria

By Agnes Aineah, Catholic News Agency, September 17, 2025

This story was first published by ACI Africa, CNA’s news partner in Africa, and has been adapted by CNA.

 

Agnes AineahACI Africa, Sep 17, 2025 / 14:10 pm (CNA) – Nigeria is “sinking in many fronts,” the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) said at a recent meeting, lamenting that in addition to economic hardships Nigerians are grappling with, many communities have been thrown into perpetual mourning due to unending insecurity.

In his address at the ongoing interactive session between CBCN and the “prominent lay faithful” of Calabar ecclesiastical province, Archbishop Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji said many Nigerians have been killed, and those who fled are languishing in camps where they are exposed to extreme weather conditions, often without food and water.

Acknowledging “notable progress here and there” in the country where persecution against Christians is said to be the highest globally, the archbishop of Nigeria’s Archdiocese of Owerri said: “We also lament that our beloved country Nigeria is sinking in many fronts.” …

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