Abuja, 06 December, 2025 / 12:20 pm (ACI Africa).
Ten years after the release of the Encyclical Letter of the late Pope Francis on care for our common home, Laudato Si’, the Local Ordinary of Abuja Archdiocese has urged Nigerians to revive a culture of environmental discipline, caring for the earth, ecological spirituality that respects the environment, protects the poor, and restores harmony between humanity and nature.
In an interview with ACI Africa on the sidelines of a special Laudato Si’ Mass that was held at the La verna Healing and Reconciliation Garden which the Franciscan Missionaries of Divine Motherhood (FMDM) organized, Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama called on Nigerians to prioritize care for the environment, insisting that care for the earth must begin with personal responsibility and childhood training.
Archbishop Kaigama told ACI Africa on the sidelines of the Thursday, December 4 event, that care for the environment “starts with everyone, even children”, adding, “We teach them how to eat bread and not take the plastic cover and throw it anyhow.”
He emphasized that homes must become the first schools of environmental discipline, saying, “We have to start teaching the children from the home. Everyone is involved. It’s not just one group of people. Together we can transform our community, our society, our state, our federal capital territory and our country.”
Archbishop Kaigama appealed to the government to revive the culture of public sanitation in a non-coercive way.
