SOS Africa: Faith without borders
Read about the SSPX's apostolate in Nigeria.
From the SSPX's foreign mission in Nigeria, we offer the 8-page newsletter SOS Africa: Faith Without Borders.
A key feature of this issue of SOS Africa is a column that offers the interesting insight of an expert on African affairs about the politics of Nigeria's northern region and how the militant Islamic Boko Haram has effectively taken control of it. In relation to this subject, we offer below 2 recent news reports from DICI.
Of course, there are reports of the SSPX's continuing missionary work in the southern region enhanced by colorful pictures:
- The missionary spirit
- St. Michael Mission: the missionary mind
- What's new at the mission?
- Praying with the mission
- Special File; Bernard Lugan's column: Nigeria has lost the North
- Projects to come
- Life of the association
- See statistics and map about SSPX's mission in Nigeria
- Why do we need help?
DICI news
5 countries unite against Boko Haram
Five African countries will unite their efforts to try to put an end to Boko Haram’s terrorist attacks. The African Catholic agency Misna has announced that a regional plan to deploy 7,500 soldiers was approved on January 29, 2015 in Abbis-Abeba during an African Union summit. The plan is to be carried out with contributions to the contingents from Nigeria, Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Benin.
Boko Haram, the Sunnite movement aiming at establishing the Sharia in sub-Saharan Africa, is estimated to have between 6,000 and 30,000 warriors, essentially from Nigeria.
(Sources: apic/misna/Wikipedia—DICI no.310 [see more related articles at this link], 2-13-2015)
Nigeria: Bishop Ike “is not Charlie”
See the article: I am not Charlie>
In an interview with Swiss news agency Apic on January 19, 2015, Bishop Obiora Francis Ike, vicar general of the diocese of Enugu in southern Nigeria, declared that he “is not Charlie!” He explained that “on the ground, in Nigeria, the fanatics of Boko Haram are making us pay the full price” for the now world-famous caricatures of Charlie Hebdo.
He stated,
In our African countries, satire that provokes Moslems puts Christians in grave danger! Today, statements and caricatures made in Europe or in the USA can have immediate consequences on the other side of the world… People massacred, businesses looted, churches burned, just as it happened in Niger.”
The prelate recalled that a caricature of the prophet Mohammed published a decade ago by a Danish paper “cost the lives of some 2000 people in Nigeria.” In his opinion,
in Europe and in North America, society has arrived at such a level of tolerance that people are limited to indifferentism...
...In your country, people will accept anything, even what is most immoral.”
The consequence, he struck in, is
a society that is losing its values, that is forgetting its Christian past. The relativism that prevails in the West leaves the path open to fanaticism, which then can take over.”
(Sources: kipa-apic.ch—DICI no. 309, 1-30-2015)
