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People look at the damage caused by flash floods in Derna, eastern Libya, on Sept. 11, 2023. / Credit: AFP via Getty Images
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Nigeria s newest cardinal shares secret behind the highest Mass attendance in the world – Catholic World Report catholicworldreport.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from catholicworldreport.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Cardinal Peter Ebere Okpaleke offers Mass in Rome at his titular church, the Holy Martyrs of Uganda Catholic Parish, on Feb. 5, 2023. / Credit: Daniel Ibanez/CNARome Newsroom, Feb 14, 2023 / 13:00 pm (CNA).After Nigeria was recognized as having the highest Mass attendance in the world, the African nation s youngest cardinal has shared some of the secrets behind his country s vibrant sacramental life.A recent study found that 94% of Nigeria s 30 million Catholics say they attend Mass at least weekly or more, while only 17% of American Catholics attend Mass weekly.Cardinal Peter Ebere Okpaleke, 59, who leads the southern Nigerian diocese of Ekwulobia, sees three key factors behind the active participation of Catholics in Nigeria.In an interview with CNA when the cardinal was in Rome this month, Okpaleke said that he believes Nigeria s traditional worldview, the role of the family, and a sense of community within parishes have kept Nigerians close to the sacraments generation afte.
Stashed inside pickup trucks and guarded by armed militias and jihadists, every year billions of illicit cigarettes wind their way through the lawless deserts of northern Mali bound for the Sahel and North Africa.
The profits from their long journey fuel north Mali’s many armed conflicts, lining the pockets of offshoots of al-Qaida and the so-called Islamic State (IS) group, as well as local militias, and corrupt state and military officials. This violence is now spilling out across West Africa, displacing more than two million people in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, and Niger.
Cigarettes made by one of the world’s largest tobacco companies, British American Tobacco (BAT) and distributed with the help of another major, Imperial Brands, through a company partially owned by the Malian state, dominate this dirty and dangerous trade.