Owerri, 05 September, 2025 / 8:25 pm (ACI Africa).
Humanity bears a moral obligation to exercise responsible stewardship, having been entrusted by God with the care of creation, the Local Ordinary of Nigeria’s Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri has said.
In a video recording taken on the sidelines of the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation on Monday, September 1, in his Metropolitan See, Archbishop Lucius Iwejuru Ugorji cautions that humanity’s carelessness and irresponsibility are destroying creation and driving some animals and plants toward extinction.
“Unfortunately, on account of carelessness and irresponsibility, we are destroying the chain of being that God placed in creation and this is resulting in many consequences,” he says in the video recording that the Oweri Archdiocese published on Wednesday, September 3.
He adds, “On account of pollution of the atmosphere, the air, the land, and the sea, many animals and plants are becoming extinct. That is our concern: that we try, as much as possible, to be responsible stewards entrusted with the care of creation.”
“God created the world to proclaim His Glory, to proclaim His greatness and to proclaim also His love,” says the Shepherd of the Owerri Archdiocese.
