Akwangwa – Rev. Father Gabriel Ngbe of
Akwangwa Catholic Church, in Nasarawa
State, on Sunday canvassed the need for
Catholic Church to incorporate some good
aspects of African culture in its Doctrine
and that monogamy should be accepted
in the Church because of those that have
only one wife.
The Catholic Priest made this known while
celebrating Acculturation Mass at St.
Patrick’s Catholic Church Akwanga.
Ngbe insisted that the Catholic doctrine
most be amended, especially in the
African Catholic Churches in order to
accommodate every member of the
Church.
“The Whiteman that brought Christianity
to us mixed the religion with his culture
and Africans just accepted it like that at
the expense of our culture.
“If we did not incorporate parts of our
culture into the way we worship God, our
culture would in no distant time go into
extinction,” he said.
Ngbe explained that local foods should
henceforth be used for communion in the
Catholic Church instead of using products
imported from Europe.
The priest also said meaningful local
names should be given to people during
Baptism and Confirmation in Catholic
Churches as against using “English
names.”
Ngbe urged members to imbibe the habit
of wearing local dresses during weddings
as well as using local languages for Mass.
He said that anybody who practiced
monogamy before accepting Christ
should be given equal treatment in the
Church with those that have only one
wife.
“It is better to have many wives at home
than to have only one and yet have many
girl friends and lovers outside,” the priest
said.
Ngbe therefore commended the Yoruba
people for incorporating their culture in
the way they practiced both Christianity
and Islam and urged others to emulate
them.
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Seun, Lalasticlala

why dont people just leave religion alone? if they want to do wrong they first try to squeeze it into religion. it is not good for a man to have more than one woman, whether he is marrying them or not. lucky him if none of them is against him, they'l be against eachother, or eachother's children