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ABSTRACT

This article titled "Human Dimension of the Ecological Crisis in Nigeria: The Imperatives of Caritas in Veritate" investigates the issues of human ecology in Nigeria based on the Church’s teachings on the sanctity of human life and the dignity of the human person. It bemoans the attacks on the human person as witnessed in recent happenings across Nigeria. This is evident in such affronts on human beings like murder, kidnapping and other societal ills like hunger, poverty and corruption. These unfortunate occurrences provoke the need to evaluate people’s awareness of the implications of the doctrine of imago Dei. The study is aimed at engendering an ecological worldview with the human person at its center and thus provoking a profound respect for the dignity of the human person, by promoting a deep catechesis of human ecology. As a panacea, the article makes recommendations towards the promotion of human ecology.in order to forestall the violation of the human person whose dignity is inalienable because it stems from his being created imago Dei. For the purpose of this research, the systematic and thematic methods of inquiry were employed.