The
role of a civil authority is to govern society and we're instructed to respect our civil authority as a clear biblical mandate.
May I suggest to you that the image of the beast has already been formed, but that it only awaits the
support of civil authorities to require its allegiance on pain of death.
A statement in this regard signed by FPRO, ACP Olabisi Kolawole said, «The Force Management Team has taken a step towards the restoration
of civil authority in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states and some of the liberated areas in the North East as it deployed the Deputy Inspector - General of Police in charge of Department of Operations, DIG Sotonye Wakama, to move with a team of intelligence officers to the area for need assessment and other scooping activities».
The Nigerian Police has put machinery in motion towards evolving operational strategies that will lead to the restoration of police primacy and
restoration of civil authority in the North — East.
The statement reads, «The Exercise, set to span across 3 Divisions of the Nigerian Army (2, 6 and 81 Divisions), is in line with the 2017 Training Directives which aims at training troops in the conduct of Internal Security Operations in
aid of Civil Authorities across the various formations» areas of responsibilities, based on Constitutional provisions.
While couched in different language, Catholic social teaching has much in common with this approach, in its overriding concern to safeguard the unique dignity of every human person, created in the image and likeness of God, and in its emphasis on the
duty of civil authority to foster the common good.
«Far from competing with analogous
documents of civil authority, the charter intends to make a specific contribution to the promotion and safeguarding of the dignity and rights of the person and of peoples.»
The
job of civil authority is to protect that religious liberty — to protect the right of every American to worship as they see fit, and to live out the teachings of their faith and never be compelled to violate the teachings of their faith.
Augustine, to take one example, disapproved of prostitution, but he did not believe that suppressing it was a proper
use of civil authority.
Hippolytos wrote in c. 200: «A
soldier of the civil authority must be taught not to kill men and to refuse to do so if he is commanded, and to refuse to take an oath.
The Book of Revelation, on the other hand, produced by a community suffering persecution, took a less sanguine
view of civil authority.
Moreover, it has a lasting tradition in the history of the church, whose official position has always been to shield homosexuals from the
application of civil authority.
Following recent successes recorded by the nation's security forces in the fight against Boko Haram terrorists and the recovery of all territories hitherto taken by the group, the Police High Command has deployed a team of officers led by the Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge Operations, DIG Sotonye Wakama to evaluate and assess the epicentre of the battle for
return of civil authority.
At least two local
boards of civil authority voted to oppose the Apportionment Board's elimination of multi-member districts within their local area.
Civil authority coverage provides income if your business is forced to closed — or access to your business is prevented — due to an
act of civil authority, such as an evacuation or disaster.
«That the Nigerian Army would ever remain apolitical in the discharge of its constitutional roles in
aid of civil authority.
The role
of the civil authority is to protect that religious liberty so we can all have the freedoms to pursue that faith — and in my case Christianity — to grow in more fullness with it.
«While we continue to fight for the unity of our country, while we continue to fight and defend territorial integrity, while we equally operate to maintain law and order in support
of the civil authority, there is one very important aspect of the soldier's life, and this is what we will be showing to you today.