The Catholic Bishop of Oyo Diocese, Most Rev. Emmanuel Badejo, felicitates with all the Muslim faithful in this year’s Eid el Kabir celebration.

In his goodwill message which was made available to CEOAFRICA, Bishop Badejo said that Eid el Kabir, the feast of sacrifice, reminds us that God detests the killing of human beings so he gave a ram to our father Abraham to slaughter, so that he might not kill his son, Isaac.

The bishop urges everyone to always use our religion for peace, love, reconciliation, justice and development not division, conflict and bloodshed.

The goodwill message reads in part:  

I, Most Rev. Emmanuel Badejo, Catholic Bishop of Oyo Diocese, on behalf of the Priests, Religious and the entire members of the diocese felicitate with our Muslim brothers and sisters on the occasion of this year';;s Eid el-Kabir. I pray with all Muslim brothers and sisters at this period of the holy celebration that the all merciful God protect you as you rejoice in your hearts and homes at this period. Even as we rejoice, we see in our country high level, financial and institutional corruption, serious insecurity, unemployment, terrorism, ethnic clashes, rape, ritual killing, human trafficking armed robbery etc. All Christians and Muslims who truly worship God should change this. We should ask: being so religious, why is our country like this?

Eid el Kabir, the feast of sacrifice, reminds us that God detests the killing of human beings so he gave a ram to our father Abraham to slaughter, so that he might not kill his son, Isaac. I plead with our leaders and all concerned to stop the killings taking place daily especially in the North of our country. 

Let us all use our religion for peace, love, reconciliation, justice and development not division, conflict and bloodshed. May God deliver us from this scourge and from COVID 19. To all Muslims in Nigeria, I say “Barka de Sallah” and many happy returns.