ACN-USA News - Nigeria - ‘Our land is now a pool of blood’

 

n an October 1 message marking the 60th anniversary of Nigeria’s independence from British rule, Bishop Matthew Kukah of Sokoto was harshly critical of the country’s President Mohammadu Buhari, faulting him for failing to rein in ongoing violence, much of it targeting Christians.

 

“Where are the Chibok daughters? Where is Leah Sharibu? Who are the sponsored murderers who have overrun our land? Our land is now a pool of blood. Mr. President, please reset the clock before it is too late.”

 

“I pray for you that God will touch your heart so that you embrace the ideals of those who came before you. This is not the Nigeria they dreamt of,” said the bishop in the statement sent to Aid to the Church in Need (ACN).

 

Against the backdrop of the killing of Christian farmers by largely Muslim Fulani herdsmen, the prelate added that in violation of the Constitution, “nepotism has become the new ideology of this government. In following this ideology it is estimated that the President has handed over 85 percent of the key positions to northern Muslims and has ensured that men of his faith hold tight to the reins of power in the most critical areas of our national life; the National Assembly and Security Agencies!”

 

Bishop Kukah charged that the “President has been quite diligent and focused in the pursuit of an agenda that is clearly alien to the aspirations and hopes of our people across religious lines. Nigeria was nothing like this before he came. How long will this lie last before it melts in our faces? We are living a lie and we know it.”

 

“In Nigeria, governance is a criminal enterprise, not a call to service,” the bishop said.

 

Full message received by ACN in English can be read here:

 

—Joop Koopman

 

 

With picture of Bishop Kukah (© J. Nicholls/ACN)

 

 

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Watch: ‘A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing II – The Gender Agenda’

 

The Long-Awaited Sequel to the Highly-Acclaimed “A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing”

 

Irondale, AL (EWTN) – EWTN’s new film, “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing II – The Gender Agenda,” examines the origins and depravity of the so-called Sexual Revolution, with its current emphasis on gender dysphoria and homosexuality, and explains how the battle over marriage and family will be won.

 

The film airs at 10 p.m. ET Thursday, Oct. 15; and Saturday, Oct. 17. The Oct. 17 airing will be preceded at 8:30 p.m. ET by the original “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” documentary, which explores the rise of Marxism in the U.S.

 

The new film begins with Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, whose existential philosophy started a dumbing-down of the culture. But the two-hour program really shines in its exposure of Alfred Kinsey’s fake science and child abuse, which kicked off the Sexual Revolution, and its corresponding assault on marriage and family.

 

It was Kinsey – with his “research” involving 200 sexual psychopaths, 1400 sex offenders and more – who birthed a man like Hugh Hefner and a woman like Kate Millet, co-founder of the National Organization of Women. It fact, it is Millet’s sister Mallory, Director of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, who tells viewers that every meeting of NOW opened with a call to destroy the American family. She reveals that their plan was to destroy both the American Patriarch and the ethic of monogamy by promoting promiscuity, eroticism, prostitution, abortion and homosexuality.

 

We also learn it was Kinsey’s sex therapists, and Communists such as Bella Dodd (who told Dietrich and Alice von Hildebrand that she helped infiltrate U.S. seminaries with 1,100 Communists), who helped usher in the sex abuse crisis which has roiled the Catholic Church in modern times.

 

“[Current revolutionaries understand] “what earlier radical movements such as the Communist movement understood, which is that you’ve got to take down God…because religion gets in your way,” says Dr. Paul Kengor, Author and Professor of Political Science at Grove City College.

 

Fortunately, the film does not leave viewers without hope. The final third of the program transitions to calls from Archbishop Fulton Sheen, St. Louis Marie de Montfort, Fatima Visionary Sister Lucia and others who not only predict what will happen, but show viewers that the way out is actually the way up.

 

In the film, Archbishop Sheen decries those who, even in the 50s, were tearing down schools, tearing down churches, tearing down teachers, tearing down the government, and tearing down the police. He said: “Can you build anything down?” He says it’s time for our nation to change the words we use. “Let’s begin now to use the word up. Up from all this filth, up from the violence, up from the indifference of course, up, up to God!”

 

De Montfort says the time will come – or perhaps is already here – when the Lord will raise up saints, devoted to the Blessed Virgin, who will surpass in holiness all the other saints, a word that is meant to both challenge and comfort us.

 

The current assault is nothing more than “a house of cards,” says Brian Camenker, founder and director of Mass Resistance, a leading nonprofit that provides information and guidance to people who confront the assault on traditional family, school children, and the moral foundation of society. “[And while] it is not permanent…it’s not going to go away by itself. It’s going to take a push and it can either happen now or it can happen in 80 years like the Soviet Union. It’s up to us.”

 

Pre-order your copy of “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing II-The Gender Agenda” here: http://bit.ly/ERCHDWGA.

 

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