Catholic Priest Resigns For Using ‘We’ Instead of ‘I’ During Baptism Ceremonies

ReligionCatholic Priest Resigns For Using ‘We’ Instead of ‘I’ During Baptism Ceremonies

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 15, 2022

A Catholic priest has voluntarily resigned from a church in Arizona after the Vatican ruled that he botched thousands of baptisms by using incorrect phrasing for 25 years. Father Andres Arango, who was ordained in 1995, recently discovered that he incorrectly baptized thousands of people by using the wrong word. The priest was accustomed to using “we baptize you in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” instead...

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Popular Gospel Singer Charged With Criminal Sexual Contact

Crime & SecurityNewsReligionPopular Gospel Singer Charged With Criminal Sexual Contact

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 12, 2022

A prominent New Jersey gospel singer and religious leader has been accused of sexually abusing a man in his home after luring him there with the promise of a job. According to the Essex County Theodore N. Stephens II, the 75-year-old gospel artiste, Albert J. Lewis Jr., invited the alleged victim to his home in Newark in order to get more information from him about the job. The victim, a 41-year-old Congolese national showed up,...

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The Kingdoms of Darkness Chose Valentine’s Day As A Day of Destruction – Mummy GO Warns

LifestyleNewsReligionThe Kingdoms of Darkness Chose Valentine’s Day As A Day of Destruction – Mummy GO Warns

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 9, 2022

2022 Valentine’s Day – the most romantic day of the year – is just around the corner. As lovers make plans on this year’s Valentine’s Day celebration on February 14, the founder of Rapture Proclaimer Evangelical Church of God, Evangelist Funmilayo Adebayo, popularly known as Mummy G.O, has dropped another controversial message about Valentine’s Day, saying it is “satanic.” Describing Valentine’s Day as a day the kingdom of darkness has dedicated to convincing people to...

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Nigerians React To Fr. Anelu’s Prohibition Of Igbo Songs In His Parish

NewsReligionNigerians React To Fr. Anelu’s Prohibition Of Igbo Songs In His Parish

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)February 9, 20221

LAGOS — James Anelu, the parish priest of Holy Trinity Catholic Church Ewu-Owa Gberigbe in Ikorodu, Lagos, stunned his parishioners when he angrily halted the choir midway into a song, sung in Igbo, during the second collection at mass last Sunday. In his annoyance, he prohibited the singing of Igbo gospel songs in the church, with the justification that he was initially stopped from presiding over a burial mass in Awo Omama, Imo State because...

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Son of Trending Mummy G.O Speaks on Viral Hell Fire Memes

NewsReligionSon of Trending Mummy G.O Speaks on Viral Hell Fire Memes

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)January 8, 2022

Samuel, the son of Funmilayo Adebayo, an evangelist nicknamed Mummy GO, and now trending on social media, has said that his mother is not bothered about the hellfire memes circulating online. He, however, said many of the texts attributed to his mum in the memes about hellfire were fabricated and untrue imaginations. Samuel, while speaking to journalists on Friday, said though his 54-year-old mother made some comments about some actions that might attract hellfire as...

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Insecurity: Sultan Of Sokoto Enjoins Muslims To Engage In Special Supplication

Culture & TraditionReligionInsecurity: Sultan Of Sokoto Enjoins Muslims To Engage In Special Supplication

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)December 14, 2021

SOKOTO — The Sultan of Sokoto and President-General of Jamatul NasiI Islam (JNI), Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has enjoined Muslims across the country to engage in special supplication against the incessant and horrific killings in some parts of the country. The Sultan said the call became imperative as human lives have continued to be wasted unchallenged as was witnessed in Benisheikh, Kaga local government area of Borno State and Gidan Bawa of Isa local...

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The Christian Association of Nigeria Frowns at the US Delisting of Nigeria From the List of CountriesRIES WITH PARTICULAR CONCERN

ReligionThe Christian Association of Nigeria Frowns at the US Delisting of Nigeria From the List of CountriesRIES WITH PARTICULAR CONCERN

Favour Ebubechukwu (Staff Writer)November 21, 2021

On Wednesday, 17th of November, 2021, the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, made a statement blacklisting Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Burma, Eritrea, Iran, China, The Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea (DPRK), Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan as religious violators. It became obvious that Nigeria had been delisted considering its inclusion in the same list in 2020. This was not pleasing to the Christian Association of Nigeria as they voiced that Christians are still being persecuted...

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US Removes Nigeria from Religious Violators’ List

Foreign PolicyReligionUS Removes Nigeria from Religious Violators’ List

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)November 19, 2021

ABUJA — The United States has removed Nigeria from its list of religious violators, even as it blacklisted Russia, China and eight other countries “as Countries of Particular Concern for having engaged in or tolerated ‘systematic, ongoing, and egregious violations of religious freedom.” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made this known in a statement on Wednesday titled, ‘Religious Freedom Designations’. While the US had in 2020 placed Nigeria and six other countries on its special...

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Pastor Nomthi Odukoya, Wife of Senior Pastor of Fountain of Life Church, Pastor Oguloya, is Dead

ObituaryReligionPastor Nomthi Odukoya, Wife of Senior Pastor of Fountain of Life Church, Pastor Oguloya, is Dead

Favour Ebubechukwu (Staff Writer)November 10, 2021

LAGOS — The senior pastor of Fountain of Life Church, Pastor Taiwo Odukoya, has announced the passing of his wife, Pastor Nomthi Odukoya, whom he married in 2010, ten years after the loss of his first wife (also a minister of the gospel), Late Pastor Bimbo Odukoya. He stated in a post on Instagram that Pastor Nomthi had battled cancer for two years. He wrote: “With deep regret and gratitude to God, I have to...

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Nigeria Will Remain Stronger With A Bright Future- Osinbajo

NigeriaPoliticsReligionNigeria Will Remain Stronger With A Bright Future- Osinbajo

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)November 1, 2021

JOS — Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has said that despite the challenges the country was currently facing, Nigerians should not lose hope as it remained a nation with great promises and a bright future. Osinbajo stated this in Jos, Plateau State at the Annual Thanksgiving Service of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria chapter in the state, noted that Nigeria is better and stronger together than separated. This is contained in a statement by the Senior...

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