The Most Reverend Albert Obiefuna, Archbishop of Onitsha and President of the Nigerian Catholic Bishops’ Conference, approaches the Holy Father, accompanied by the Postulator, and requests the Beatification of the Venerable Servant of God, Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi. Most Holy…
-A REFLECTION BY FRANCIS CARDINAL ARINZE On 22 March 1998 the Holy Father Saint Pope John Paul Il beatified the Blessed Michael Cyprian lweneTansi, o.c.s.o., at Onitsha in Nigeria. Tansi is in many ways a priest who has a message…
Family background The beginning of the twentieth century witnessed a big wind of economic and religious change which blew across West Africa. This wind was fanned by the colonial masters who were resolute in establishing their conquest through economic ties…
