The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, in the northern states has called for the adoption of the Kaduna peace model as a strategic approach to promoting national unity and fostering religious harmony across the country.

Chairman of Northern CAN, Rev. John Joseph Hayab, made the call on Monday during the Kaduna Inter-Religious Dialogue on Peace, Unity, and Security Committee Meeting, held to mark the two-year anniversary of Governor Uba Sani’s administration, organised by the Kaduna State Bureau of Interfaith.

Hayab, who also serves as co-chairman of the committee, commended the Kaduna State Government for implementing inclusive policies and promoting a culture of religious tolerance, describing the progress made as “a silent transformation” worthy of national attention.

“Insecurity, mutual suspicion, and religious tension once defined Kaduna’s image. But today, we are witnessing significant progress under Governor Uba Sani, who has shown deliberate commitment to healing and inclusiveness,” he said.

He noted that incidents of communal clashes and banditry in the state had drastically reduced due to the administration’s combination of kinetic and non-kinetic approaches, alongside its policy of fair engagement with all communities.

Hayab also praised the governor’s symbolic participation in Christian events, including two consecutive Christmas Carol services, saying such gestures had gone a long way in restoring trust and reinforcing the spirit of belonging among the Christian community.

The new archbishop of Wales, the Most Rev Cherry Vann, has said that gay marriage in church is inevitable.

Vann, 66, stated this while speaking to the Guardian of how she kept her s3xuality secret for decades as part of her struggle to be accepted as a female minister in the Anglican communion.

Vann became one of the first female priests to be ordained in England in 1994. Now, she is UK’s first female and first openly gay archbishop, and the first openly lesbian and partnered bishop to serve as a primate within the Anglican communion.

She said that without the strong belief that God had called her to the priesthood she “would not have survived” her journey through the ranks of the church.

“It happens that I’ve lived in a time that’s meant that I’m a trailblazer, but I’m not a campaigner,” the Leicestershire-born archbishop said during an interview at the Church in Wales’s offices in central Cardiff,” she said.

“I’m not somebody to be out there all the time but I do seek to be true to what I think God’s asking of me.”

Working in the Church in Wales since 2020 has been very different from the many years Vann spent at the Church of England, she said, as clergy are permitted to be in same-sex civil partnerships. In the Anglican church in England, same-sex relationships are technically allowed, but gay clergy are expected to remain celibate

Upon becoming bishop of Monmouth five years ago, Vann publicly disclosed her civil partnership with Wendy Diamond, her partner of 30 years, for the first time.

The Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) has criticised the election of the Rt. Rev. Cherry Vann, as the Archbishop of Wales, and described it as a further indication of abandonment of the faith once delivered to the saints.

Vann, who is known to be a practising homosexual and in a civil partnership with Wendy Diamond, was elected as the Archbishop of Wales on Wednesday, July 30, 2025.

Vann, who had served as the Bishop of Monmouth for the past five years, was chosen as the 15th Archbishop of Wales.

She is to succeed Bishop Andrew John, who retired in July after three and a half years as the leader of the Church in Wales.

She was elected having secured a two-thirds majority vote from members of the Electoral College at its meeting at the St Pierre Church and Hotel in Chepstow.

In a statement on Sunday, the Anglican Primate, Most Rev’d Henry Ndukuba, said that Church of Nigeria will not recognise the election of Rt. Rev. Cherry Vann as Archbishop of Wales.

He stated that Vann’s election is a signal that some sections of the global Anglican world have resolved to abandon the truth of God’s word by sacrificing the authority of Scripture for a postmodern agenda that has no divine backing.

The Primate added that her election is a further authentication of the choice of the Church of Wales walking away from the truth.

He added that the development is an impairment of the church’s credibility to do missions and evangelism, and to salvage the very soul of Anglican orthodoxy.

The statement read, “We recall with sadness her passive and complicit role in the same-sex crisis that tore the Anglican Communion apart. The story of Rt. Rev. Vann reminds us of the sad tenure of Most Rev. Katherine Jefferts Schori, the 26th Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church in the United States (2006–2015), under whose tenure faithful Anglicans in the United States of America suffered severe persecution and opposition.

“This recent election of Bishop Vann is a clear revelation that many who claim to be members of the body of Christ cannot endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.”

He called on Anglicans to denounce, reject, condemn, and expel the rebels in their midst, and realign themselves with Anglican remnants scattered in troubled dioceses all over the world, under the umbrella of faithful Anglican Christian bodies like GAFCON.

“As a matter of urgency, the Church of Nigeria believes that this moment calls for prayer for the Church of Wales, hoping that the Church of England will not follow in her steps.

“We should hold them in our prayers with a clear message that hope lies only in true repentance and godliness; otherwise, this Church will lose complete relevance in the divine scheme for the people of Wales, and the leaders in compromise shall not be spared in time of judgment,” the statement added.