‘What Sins Have Places of Worship Committed?’ – CAN Demands Churches Re-opening

CoronavirusNewsReligion‘What Sins Have Places of Worship Committed?’ – CAN Demands Churches Re-opening

Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)July 8, 2020

The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Rev. Samson Ayokunle has demanded that States that have not re-opened worship centres despite the approval to open given by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 should comply. Rev. Ayokunle said in a statement through his Special Assistant on Media and Communications, Pastor Adebayo Oladeji, that it was no longer acceptable and reasonable to continue to lockdown worship places. “Despite the directive given by the Presidential...

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Dalai Lama Marks 85th Birthday With Album of Mantras

NewsReligionDalai Lama Marks 85th Birthday With Album of Mantras

PilotnewsJuly 6, 2020

The Dalai Lama made a bid for music chart stardom on Monday, his 85th birthday, with the release of an album of mantras and teachings. “Inner World” kicks off with the track “One Of My Favourite Prayers” and continues with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader reciting meditations and sayings with accompanying music. The record came about when musician Junelle Kunin, a student of the Dalai Lama from New Zealand, contacted him in 2015 with the...

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Saudi Arabid to Hold 2020 Hajj for the “Very Limited” Already in the Kingdom

NewsReligionSaudi Arabid to Hold 2020 Hajj for the “Very Limited” Already in the Kingdom

Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)June 23, 2020

Saudi Arabia has announced that this year hajj will be for the “very limited”, adding that only the pilgrims already in the Kingdom would be allowed to perform the annual ritual as it moves to curb the biggest COVID-19 outbreak in the Gulf. This will be the first time in the modern history of Saudi Arabia that Muslims outside the Kingdom would not be allowed to perform the hajj, which recorded 2.5 million pilgrims last...

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OPINION: The Church Must Make Reparation for its Role in Slavery, Segregation

Law & JusticeOpinionRegionsReligionUnited StatesOPINION: The Church Must Make Reparation for its Role in Slavery, Segregation

PilotnewsJune 15, 2020

The ever-expanding protests over the epidemic of police violence and systemic racism in the United States, manifested most recently in the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, have brought our society to another monumental crossroad. At the intersection of these enduring crimes against humanity and protesters of varying hues and creeds screaming, “Enough is enough,” is a global system of anti-Blackness and violence that has strangled Black communities in the United States...

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Presidency: IPOB Using Christianity to Wage War Against Nigeria

NewsNigeriaReligionPresidency: IPOB Using Christianity to Wage War Against Nigeria

PilotnewsJune 7, 2020

The Presidency on Sunday raised alarm over the misleading campaign spearheaded by the so-called Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), using false allegations of persecution of Christians against the Nigerian State. Malam Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, in a statement in Abuja, said that the Federal Government had since uncovered two interconnected campaigns being run concurrently by the IPOB in that regard. According to him, both are using the...

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CAN Demands Immediate Release of Chairman In Nasarawa State

Crime & SecurityNewsNigeriaReligionCAN Demands Immediate Release of Chairman In Nasarawa State

Beloved John (Staff Writer)May 29, 2020

The national leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has called on the Federal Government to deploy all its arsenal and that it’s chairman in Nasarawa State, Bishop Joseph Masin is released Masin abducted on Wednesday at his residence in Bukan-Sidi, Lafia metropolis by some gunmen. In a statement signed by the General Secretary, Barr. Joseph Daramola, the association urged the government to plead for the immediate release Joseph Masin as well as Leah...

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500 Vulnerable Families in Plateau receive palliative From Rev Michael Gokum, Catholic Bishop of Pankshin Diocese

CoronavirusNigeriaPhilanthropyReligion500 Vulnerable Families in Plateau receive palliative From Rev Michael Gokum, Catholic Bishop of Pankshin Diocese

PilotnewsMay 29, 2020

Most Rev Michael Gokum, the Catholic Bishop of Pankshin Diocese, has donated food items to 500 vulnerable families in Plateau to cushion the hardships occasioned by the advent of Coronavirus (Covid-19). Presenting the items on Friday in Pankshin, Gokum said the gesture aimed at supporting the poor within his diocese to make a living as the world grapples with the pandemic. He explained that the gesture was championed by the Justice Development and Peace Commission...

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Anglican Primate Urges FG to Lift Ban on Religious, Socio-Economic Activities

CoronavirusNewsNigeriaReligionAnglican Primate Urges FG to Lift Ban on Religious, Socio-Economic Activities

PilotnewsMay 26, 2020

The Primate, Church of Nigeria, Most Rev. Henry Ndukuba, has called on the Federal Government to systematically lift the ban on religious and socio-economic activities currently under lockdown as a result of COVID-19. Ndukuba told newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday, that easing the lockdown on religious activities would provide spiritual dimension to the ongoing fight against the Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). According  to him, continuous lockdown on economic activities can increase the negative impact on the...

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Eid-el-Fitr: Mixed Adherence To Social-Distancing Rule in Adamawa

NewsNigeriaReligionEid-el-Fitr: Mixed Adherence To Social-Distancing Rule in Adamawa

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)May 24, 2020

Like in other northeastern parts of the country Muslims in Yola, the state capital of Adamawa State, on Sunday have come out in their numbers to observe the Eid El Fitr prayers with little compliance to social distancing order. Women and children could be seen adorned in their different Sallah attires at Friday’s mosques were the Eid-el Fitr prayers were observed. In adherence to the social distancing rule, some Muslim faithful were seen obeying the...

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Eid El-Fitr: Shiekh Dahiru Bauchi, Imams Defy Sultan of Sokoto, Others

NewsNigeriaReligionEid El-Fitr: Shiekh Dahiru Bauchi, Imams Defy Sultan of Sokoto, Others

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)May 23, 2020

Many Muslims in most parts of Nigeria have today Saturday observed the Eid el- Fitr prayer marking the end of Ramadan, in defiance of the announcement made by Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar that the Sallah be observed tomorrow Sunday. In Bauchi, Yobe, Sokoto and other states just as in the neighboring Niger Republic, a section of the Dariqa and Izala’s sects, were reported to have ended their fast on Friday and observed Sallah today Saturday. Defending...

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