Akinwunmi Ambode, governor of Lagos state, has commended the general superintendent of Deeper Christian Life Ministry, William Folorunso Kumuyi and members of the church for their contributions towards developing the lives of people in the state. Governor Ambode, who spoke on Tuesday, February 27, at the commissioning of multiple projects executed by the church in… Read More »
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Rev. Samson Ayokunle, President, Christian Association of Nigeria ( CAN ) has described Evangelist Billy Graham as the most humble and influential religious leaders well known in the world. Ayokunle made the remark in an interview in Abuja, while reacting to the death of the renowned evangelist. The president noted that Graham’s departure, no doubt… Read More »
According to BBC, US evangelist Billy Graham – one of the most influential preachers of the 20th Century – has died aged 99. He died at his home in Montreat, North Carolina, a spokesman for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association said. In a 60-year career, he is estimated to have preached to hundreds of millions of… Read More »
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) who had in a letter to CAN, dated September 24, 2012, announced its withdrawal from the organisation announced the return of Catholic Church to the Christian association of Nigeria after five years of dissociating itself from the body. The return process was concluded on Thursday and Friday in Abuja when… Read More »
The Nigerian bishop, Rev. Peter Ebere Okpaleke, who was appointed by Pope Benedict in 2012 have faced numerous opposition. Pope Francis had fiercely defended him for him to remain in Office, He has anyway resigned after a five-year, sometimes violent, standoff with some priests and worshippers who rejected him as an ethnic outsider, as the Vatican said… Read More »
President Muhammadu Buhari in a statement released by his Special Adviser on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, has summoned Christian to use this period of Lent to pray for Nigeria’s Unity and Progress. Adesina wrote “As they join their counterparts worldwide to emulate the worthy example of Jesus Christ who fasted 40 days at the beginning… Read More »
To well appropriate Ash Wednesday is to keep in memory the words “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return…Repent, and believe in the Gospel.” The name, Ash Wednesday was derived from the practice of blessing ashes made from palm branches the preceding year’s Palm Sunday and placing them on the heads of participants by sprinkling… Read More »