Entries by COFPFound

COFP Fellow Becomes a Catholic Bishop

  It was a day of joy in the newly erected Diocese of Katsina in Katsina state Nigeria on 12th December, 2023 when a COFP Fellow, Monsignor Gerald Musa was ordained as the first Catholic Bishop of Katsina Diocese. Monsignor Gerald now Bishop Gerald was a COFP Fellow of the 2020/2021 set (Class of 2021). […]

Site Visits from Partners

In October, 2023, we received representatives from the United Religions Initiative (URI) in our office in Abuja and also, Observatoire Pharos in November, 2023. Their visit gave us the opportunity to explore the possibility of collaboration as both organizations share the same vision with the COFP Foundation. In the same light, we welcomed one of […]

COFP Welcomes the 6th Set of COFP Fellows

After a rigorous selection process, another set of Fellows, 50 in all, were selected from the many individuals who applied for the 2023/2024 COFP Fellowship program. The first module of the 6th annual and 3rd Continental COFP Fellowship Program, commenced with the arrival of Fellows on Sunday, 23rd July, 2023, at the Ajuji Greenwich hotel, […]

Scholarship Program for Indigent Children

To ensure that the less privileged children can access basic education beyond FCT Abuja, the Foundation expanded its scholarship scheme to indigent students and pupils in Nasarawa state. 50 students/pupils from ten different schools were assisted during the third term of 2022/2023 academic session while 42 of them received financial support during the 1st term […]

Catholic Sisters Engages in Grassroots Development

    Through funding support from the Conrad Hilton Foundation and COFP Foundation, some COFP Fellows (Catholic Sisters) embarked on the second phase of their community development peace project in August 2023 following huge successes recorded during the first phase of their project in January, 2023. Their projects targeted destitute women and youth in their […]

Celebrating 5th Anniversary of COFP Fellowship Program

After the painstaking effort ploughed into Modules 1and 2 by the 2022/2023 set of the COFP Fellowship program as well as the execution of a community peace project initiated by each one of the Fellows, they all had the honour of getting to the final and concluding phase of the Fellowship- Module 3! This was […]