When I graduated from college, I volunteered to work with the Lay Mission Helpers of the Los Angeles Archdiocese. After training, I was sent to southern Nigeria and assigned to Holy Family College in Abak, where I taught â?? along with priests from the Irish Kiltegan Fathers and native lay instructors â?? Latin, English, and Scripture to high-school and junior-college age boys.
The region was Largely populated by varieties of Christians, as well as pagans with their shrines to various gods. I asked the priests about conversions and was told that things were going very well, except it was impossible to convert a Muslim.
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