JORAS - Nigerian Journal of Religion and Society

Much social responsibility and action is going on within the Church in Nigeria in the form of charity. The situation of poverty, misery, injustice and corruption which seem to be the order of the day in Nigeria pose some quite daunting challenges to the Church. This paper argues that the failure of many of Nigeria's professors of political science, for whom democracy is an article of faith; legal luminaries who hold the title of "Senior Advocate of Nigeria" and have sworn to defend the rule of law; and even some respected religious prelates who are expected to hold truth as sacred, cannot allow the Church to escape from the world or be an innocent by-stander in the politics of her time. She must not just keep quiet, watch, pray and continue to console the victims of the system to humbly accept their suffering with Christian fortitude. Rather, the Church must courageously highlight the evil of society by bringing our community to stand under the judgment of the enduring values of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to criticize what is fundamentally inhuman and anti-human in our system of governance.

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