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Lawyers and the leadership of the Word Miracle Church International (WMCI) yesterday tendered in documents to prove that they are the only and true owners of a parcel of land at Avenor, which resulted in a dispute that claimed two lives on Monday morning.
The District Superintendent of the Abuja Autonomous District of the Qua Iboe Church of Nigeria, Rev. G. N. Ekong Sunday over the weekend told a newly ordained elder and two deacons of the Nyanya-Karu worship centre of the church to be God fearing in their conduct or be ready to face disciplinary actions.
The Shaykh Al-Azhar, esteemed Dr. Sayyid Muhammad Tantawi while on a recent visit to an Al-Azhar-affiliated high school stood in front of the class to teach a 16-year old teenager who was using the niqab (the face veil) some important lessons in Islamic legal rulings.
In an unprecedented gesture in Muslim-dominated Kano State, Governor Ibrahim Shekarau on Sunday attended the annual revival organised by the Pentecostal Followership of Nigeria (PFN), Kano State chapter. He mounted the pulpit and preached for about 50 minutes on the need for greater mutual understanding and harmony between Christians and Muslims living in the state.
We received a very disturbing report today that is yet another indication that the army is getting completely out of line. A well known Catholic priest in Banket has been savagely beaten by a soldier.
Hopes for a new constitution in Kenya were high today November 17, as the country launched the harmonized draft that will be reviewed by the Kenyans in the next thirty days.
The Apostles Revelation Society (ARS) Church is taking steps to revive activities in the church, which have become dormant over the past ten years, due to the leadership problem confronting it, as it was important to adopt strategies that will bring life back in the church.
The police have begun questioning the leadership of the Word Miracle Church International (WMCI) over a sporadic shooting incident which claimed one life at Avenor, near the Kwame Nkrumah Circle in Accra, in the early hours of yesterday.
The American embassy in Gaborone is contributing $44,000 for the renovation of a colonial church at Old Palapye, present day Malaka.
THE Anglican Bishop of Soroti Diocese, the Rt. Rev. George William Erwau, was on Sunday morning attacked by thugs moments before he went to conduct the 6:30am service.
The airlift of Nigerian pilgrims to Saudi Arabia for this year's hajj from the southern zone was concluded last weekend by Med-View Airline, seven days ahead of schedule. And the return journey for the 13,163 pilgrims airlifted to the holy land by the airline is expected to begin December 1.
A Lagos pilgrim,currently in Mecca,Saudi Arabia, for this year's Hajj has been arrested by the Saudi police for being in possession of fake $22, 000 (N3.3 million) from which he had been spending.
The first batch of 400 out of the 20,000 Christian pilgrims have arrived in Israel for this year's Christian pilgrimage.
A Muslim cleric and an official of the National Mosque Abuja, Ustaz Dhikrullah Hassan, has advised Muslim parents to ensure proper education for their children in the Islamic and western ways.
Civil rights groups are calling on governments and donors to implement the existing commitments on water and sanitation saying that Africa is off-track on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Zambian politics has exhibited very interesting signs in 2009 says the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR).
Churches in the Sudan have expressed their concern over the country's delay in the implementation of the historic Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA).
The federal government has set up a special monitoring on the 2009 Hajj Muslim airlift to Saudi Arabia to stave off any hitch in the process.
Renowned American pastor, Rick Warren, founder of Saddleback Church, yesterday delivered a special sermon at a prayer breakfast with a cross-section of Rwandan leaders, in which President Paul Kagame was chief guest.
All intending pilgrims for this year's Hajj from Kano Zone were successfully airlifted by early last week.
The Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria , Moshe Ram, has assured Nigerian pilgrims to Jerusalem of security while in the holy land. Ram gave the assurance in Lagos yesterday at the flag-off ceremony for the 2009 Christian pilgrimage to Israel and Rome and the airlift of 409 pilgrims from Lagos State for the exercise.
FOR three days starting Wednesday, Kololo Airstrip will host hundreds of people united in thanksgiving and prayer.
AS gospel artistes continue to complain about lack of financial support, debate is going on among born-again Christians that Gospel music has lost its value, owing to the overwhelming secular influences. But has the soul music genre really lost its spirituality? If this is true, what should be done to bring the gospel artistes back on the divine track?
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has commended Pastor Samuel Kakande for preaching the gospel and praying for the sick.
THE month of October may have come and gone but the memories will linger especially as the premier Nigerian indiginous church organisation, the God's Kingdom Society made more inroads to parts of the world with its gospel that Jesus Christ was not born in December as many people would want us to believe. Throughout the month, ministers and members of the church criss-crossed the globe correcting ...
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