Tag: Saints
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The Saints in Nigeria, By Stephen Ojapah MSP
Stephen Ojapah MSP “After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud…
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Why the Saints are made in Heaven, By Stephen Ojapah, MSP
STEPHEN OJAPAH MSP Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 5:3). I have tried to reflect on some verses of the beatitudes for some weeks now because its meanings are becoming deeper for me every time that I read the scriptures. The sermon on the mount as it…
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Pope Francis ready to declare 35 new saints
Pope Francis will declare 33 martyrs and 2 others from Brazil, Mexico, Spain and Italy, as the Catholic Church’s new saints on Sunday at a Canonization Mass in Rome’s St. Peter’s Square. They include 30 so-called “Matryrs of Natal”, including priests and lay people, who were killed in 1645 in a wave of anti-Catholic persecution…
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Omokri lambasts Bolaji Abdullahi, George Akume, says ‘If Jonathan is corrupt, joining APC doesn’t make you saints’
Former media aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has said the recent outbursts by former members of the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, now All Progressives Congress, APC, that the administration of former President, Goodluck Jonathan was corrupt is an indictment on themselves. Omokri who was reacting to a statement credited to the spokesperson…