The Nigerian bishop whom Pope Francis had fiercely defended has resigned after a five-year, sometimes violent, standoff with some priests and worshippers who rejected him as an ethnic outsider, the Vatican said on Monday. A Vatican press release quoted by its news agency, Agenzia Fides, reads;

German Pentecostal Evangelist, Reinhard Bonnke, is set to return to Nigeria for a five day crusade and a three day multi-purpose ministers’ fire conference, according to his team, Christ for All Nations (CFaN).