It is better to have many wives, than to have one or many friends, lovers - a Catholic priest

Reverend Father Gabriel Ngbe Catholic Church Akwangwa, in Nasarawa, on Sunday discussed the need for the Catholic Church to turn some good aspects of the African culture in its doctrine and that monogamy should be taken in the Church because of those who have only one wife, a Catholic priest made it is known, during the celebration of mass acculturation Akwanga St. Patrick's Catholic church. Ngbe insisted that Catholic doctrine is most to be amended, especially in the African-Catholic churches to hold all members of the Church. "The Whiteman, who brought Christianity to us to mix religion with its culture and Africans simply accepted it as that due to our culture." If we did not include the part of our culture in the way we worship God, our culture is not in the distant time to go to extinction, "he said.
Ngbe explained that local products is now to be used for communication in the Catholic Church, rather than to use products imported from Europe. The priest also noted significant local names should be given to people at the time of Baptism and Confirmation in the Catholic Church against the use of "English names." Ngbe urged members to absorb the habit of wearing local dress at weddings, as well as with the use of local languages ​​for the masses. He says that anyone who practiced monogamy, before accepting Christ should be given equal treatment in the Church to those who have only one wife. "It is better to have many wives, than at home, to have only one, and there is still a lot of friends and fans on the street," said the priest. Therefore Ngbe praised the Yoruba people to turn their culture as they practice Christianity and Islam, and urged others to emulate them.

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