SIGNIS Nigeria to host 2025 congress on Catholic media’s role in national transformation

by Catholic Trends

September 2, 2025

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SIGNIS Nigeria to host 2025 congress on Catholic media’s role in national transformation

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Abuja, Nigeria – Catholic communicators from across Nigeria are expected to converge in Abuja from September 3 to 5, 2025, for the third SIGNIS Nigeria Congress, a major gathering aimed at strengthening the Church’s communications apostolate in Nigeria.

The event, scheduled to take place at the Sisters of Divine Love Retreat Centre in Lugbe, will run under the theme “Communicating Hope and Change – Catholic Media’s Role in Shaping Nigeria’s Future.”

According to the organisers, the congress will serve as a vital forum for media professionals to sharpen their skills, reflect on their mission, and strategize for the future of Catholic communications. “It will also provide a platform for strategic deliberation and the election of new leadership to guide the association forward,” a statement shared with Catholic Trends said..

Expected to open the congress is Archbishop of Abuja, Most Rev. Dr. Ignatius Kaigama. A keynote address will be delivered by distinguished diplomat Ambassador Joe Keshi, while the Bishop Chairman of Communications and Bishop of Lafia, Most Rev. Dr. David Ajang, will lead a session on the future of Catholic communications in Nigeria.

Other highlights include goodwill messages from the President of SIGNIS World, Mrs. Helen Osman, and the President of SIGNIS Africa, Rev. Fr. Prof. Walter Ihejirika.

According to the statement, the congress is crucial for strengthening professional bonds and equipping our members to be more effective promoters of hope within Nigeria’s current socio-economic landscape.

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SIGNIS Nigeria, a member of the global SIGNIS network, brings together Catholic communications professionals including members of the Catholic Media Practitioners Association of Nigeria (CAMPAN), the Catholic Artiste and Entertainers Association of Nigeria (CAEAN), diocesan communication directors, lecturers, and ICT experts.

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Wednesday of the Twenty-sixth week in Ordinary Time

Book of Job 9,1-12.14-16.

Job answered his friends and said:
I... know well that it is so; but how can a man be justified before God?
Should one wish to contend with him, he could not answer him once in a thousand times.
God is wise in heart and mighty in strength; who has withstood him and remained unscathed?
He removes the mountains before they know it; he overturns them in his anger.
He shakes the earth out of its place, and the pillars beneath it tremble.
He commands the sun, and it rises not; he seals up the stars.
He alone stretches out the heavens and treads upon the crests of the sea.
He made the Bear and Orion, the Pleiades and the constellations of the south;
He does great things past finding out, marvelous things beyond reckoning.
Should he come near me, I see him not; should he pass by, I am not aware of him;
Should he seize me forcibly, who can say him nay? Who can say to him, "What are you doing?"
How much less shall I give him any answer, or choose out arguments against him!
Even though I were right, I could not answer him, but should rather beg for what was due me.
If I appealed to him and he answered my call, I could not believe that he would hearken to my words.

Psalms 88(87),10bc-11.12-13.14-15.

Daily I call upon you, O LORD;
to you... I stretch out my hands.
Will you work wonders for the dead?
Will the shades arise to give you thanks?

Do they declare your mercy in the grave,
your faithfulness among those who have perished?
Are your wonders made known in the darkness,
or your justice in the land of oblivion?

But I, O LORD, cry out to you;
with my morning prayer I wait upon you.
Why, O LORD, do you reject me;
why hide from me your face?

Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Luke 9,57-62.

As Jesus and His disciples were proceeding... on their journey someone said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go."
Jesus answered him, "Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head."
And to another he said, "Follow me." But he replied, "Lord, let me go first and bury my father."
But he answered him, "Let the dead bury their dead. But you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God."
And another said, "I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say farewell to my family at home."
Jesus answered him, "No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks to what was left behind is fit for the kingdom of God."

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