"We fear moneylenders will end up targeting people who will just not be able to repay loans at the exorbitant interest rates they are charging," says SVP president Kieran Stafford.

"Until the population dialogues with their children and gives me a written guarantee of the safety of the pastors who work for them, the parishes will remain without pastors,” - Bishop Nkea.

“Celebrations must be beautiful, not worldly, because worldliness depends on the god of money, which is idolatry.”

“For those corrupted by love of riches, nothing exists beyond their own ego. Those around them do not come into their line of sight.”

God’s dream for his creation is to see it fulfilled “in the loving union between a man and a woman, rejoicing in their shared journey, fruitful in their mutual gift of self”.

Without father figures, young people often feel ‘orphaned’ and left adrift at a critical moment in their growth and development.