Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau State has called for peace and forgiveness during the ongoing lenten season being observed by Catholics and other Christians for a period of 40 days.
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Catholics in South-east Asia will have to do without one of their most recognisable traditions this year due to the coronavirus outbreak, a report said.
Pope Francis heads to Morocco on Saturday for his second visit in less than two months to a mostly Muslim country amid warming ties with the Islamic world.
Pope Francis’s visit to the peninsula, home to two million expatriate Catholics as well as the holiest sites of Islam in Saudi Arabia is a landmark one.
This is the official app of the Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network, a statement from the Vatican said.
During the celebration Catholics go on procession, singing praises, while a priest carries the Eucharistic in a monstrance to pray for peace.
Utomi made the call at the 80th birthday celebration of the Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Ibadan, Most Rev. Felix Job.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that some of the placards carried by the protesters read: “No weapon fashioned against Christians shall prosper”; “Say no to terrorism in places of worship”; “Christians lives matter”; “live and lets live”; “human lives are sacred”, among others.
In his message for Lent, during which the faithful are called on to fast from food, make sacrifices, reflect and carry out extra acts of charity, Francis warned against allowing “that charity turns cold within us”.
Lent is a period of penance observed in the six weeks leading up to Easter, the most important feast in the Christian calendar, which celebrates the resurrection of Christ.
The Archbishop said that the feast marked the last Sunday of the Catholic liturgical year and the end of the Catholic Year of Mercy as the church awaits advent
“Lent is a time when many Christians prepare for Easter by observing a period of fasting, repentance, moderation and spiritual discipline.
The Bishops also alleged rigging in some states, citing the specific example of a polling unit in Akwa Ibom State where a security agent assisted with the thumb printing of ballot papers
Catholics are heavily divided over the use of condoms. A television advert urging married women to use condoms was recently pulled from Kenyan television following an outcry from religious groups