Tag: Good Friday
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Pope washed, kissed feet of 12 inmates in Rome prison on Holy Thursday
Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of 12 women inmates at a Rome prison during a Holy Thursday Mass. The 87-year-old pontiff performed the ritual from his wheelchair after recent ailments compounded his mobility problems. The women at the Rebibbia prison venue sat on stools on a raised-up platform, enabling the pope to move…
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Easter: CAN condemns peak milk ‘crucifixion’ advert, demands apology
The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has condemned in great terms the e recent social media advert by FrieslandCampina WAMCO Nigeria Plc, makers of Peak Milk, which used the crucifixion of Jesus Christ as a metaphor to promote their product during the Easter period.
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Why Good Friday cannot be taken for granted – Archbishop Kaigama
The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, Most Reverend Ignatius Kaigama has urged Christians in Nigeria to imbibe a life of love, sacrifice and humility and charged them not to take Good Friday for granted.
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[Devotional] IN HIS PRESENCE: IT IS FINISHED
It was a very sad and hopeless day in Jerusalem on this day over 2000 years ago. The One whom the Jews believed had come to deliver them from Roman oppression had just been crucified on a cross between two criminals. The disciples were in panic mode. Some of them had fled and gone into…
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Catholic student acting “Passion of Christ” slumps and dies
Ambrose died on the spot, on good Friday
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Good Friday: Catholic Bishop tasks Nigerians to fish out criminals
The Catholic Bishop of Lafia Diocese, Most Rev. David Ajang, has urged community leaders to fish out perpetrators of crime in their domains and hand them over to security agents for prosecution.
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Death on a Friday – By Sonnie Ekwowusi
This week is marked in Christendom as the Holy Week. The Holy Week reaches its apogee on Good Friday when Jesus Christ is crucified to death on the Cross, and was buried but on the third day he rose from death.
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Good Friday: Obaseki tasks Christians on love, tolerance
Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo, on Friday in Benin, enjoined Christians to emulate the virtues of tolerance, love and selflessness as shown by Jesus Christ on Good Friday. Obaseki gave the charge in a message to mark Good Friday, a Christian holiday in preparation for the Easter celebration.
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Easter: Tinubu sends Good Friday message to Christians
A former Governor of Lagos State, Sen. Bola Tinubu, has urged Christians across Nigeria and the world at large to imbibe on Christ’s life of service, sacrifice and compassion as they mark Good Friday. Tinubu, an All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential hopeful, made the call in a statement on Friday in Lagos.
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Good Friday: Catholic Bishop urges Nigerians to show love, shun violence
Bishop Emmanuel Badejo, the Catholic Bishop of Oyo Diocese has urged Nigerians to shun all forms of violence as Christians observe Good Friday. Badejo gave the charge on Friday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan. He called on citizens to love one another irrespective of tribal or religious differences.…