Vote to eat.NSUKKA, Nigeria -- An African bishop is employing a novel approach to getting Catholics to the polls: denying Communion communion: see Eucharist; Lord's Supper. to those who fail to register for April's national elections. Father Obiora Ike, a spokesman for Bishop Francis Oboko of the Nsukka diocese DIOCESE, eccl. law. The district over which a bishop exercises his spiritual functions. 1 B1. Com. 111. in southeastern Nigeria, said that voting was a Christian duty: "We believe that a good Christian must also be a good citizen." The bishop has been concerned about a "noticeable lack of interest in Ike told BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. News. The election will precede the first transfer of power from one elected government to another since Nigeria's independence in 1960. Communicants will have to show a valid voter registration Voter registration is the requirement in some democracies for citizens to check in with some central registry before being allowed to vote in elections. An effort to get people to register is known as a voter registration drive. Centralized/compulsory vs. card before receiving Communion. |
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