The second plenary session of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) will be opened in Jalingo on Sunday.
Rev. Fr. Henry Vakkai made this known on Saturday in Jalingo when speaking to journalists.
Vakkai is the chairman, local organising committee (LOC) of the conference.
He said that everything had been put in place for the success of the conference.
He also disclosed that President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba State would be at the occasion to grace it.
According to him, the second plenary session was an annual conference which rotated among the nine provinces of the church in the country after the first session which was permanently held in Abuja every January.
Vakkai urged the people of the state to come out enmasse to grace the opening Mass on Sunday at Our Lady Queen of Peace Cathedral, Mile Six, Jalingo by 9 am.
He said the people of the state and the nation stood to benefit a lot spiritually as the Bishops would offer special prayers for the state and the nation during the conference.
His words: “The Bishops would discuss issues relating to the progress of the church, the nation and the world and a communique would be issued at the end of the conference on Thursday.
“For us the host diocese, the conference has accelerated our infrastructural development and spiritually our people would be encouraged as the Bishops are scheduled to visit some local parishes to pray for the people and interact with them.
“If not for this conference, it would have taken us more than twenty years to put together these structures you are seeing around, but in less than a year we have transformed this pastoral centre courtesy of the conference.”
