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Muslims in Nigeria today celebrate the feast of sacrifice titled ''Id-El-Kabir'' . Ths celebration according to the Islamic calender is set aside to commemorate the willingness of Ibrahim(said holy) to follow Allah's command to sacrifice his son Ishmael. Alongside almighty Allah sent angel Jibril to stop Ibrahim from killing his son, replacing him with white ram instead. Ever since muslims each particular period in a year observe this aged-sacrificial ritual with slaughtering of animals including cows, rams, goats e.t.c In regards the federal government of nigeria declared 24th and 25th of september public holiday to mark this feast, which fell as usual on the 10th Dhul-Hyjah- coinciding with the climbing of Mount Arafat, to mark the end of this year's holy pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. 'I urge Nigerians to pray for peace, progress and unity across the nation' said Abubakar Magaji (ministry's permanent secretary). I wish all our muslim b...

                            After the sunday sermon on sunday this week, the general overseer Grace of God Mission International, Bishop Dr Paul Nwachukwu, announced the commencement of one of his September to remember programme titled 'The Great Awakening' In his announcement, he introduced the arrival of his guest speaker, Apostle Anselem Madubuko. Apostle Madubuko is the general Overseer of Revival Church of God located in Ogba Ikeja, Lagos State. ''I will invite more anointed men of God before the week runs out'' bishop Paul said. You will have to stop eating after 12pm and come prayerfully with expectancy from the Lord. The programme is scheduled thursday 24th - Friday 25th September 2015 he further narrated. I just hope Apostle Madubuko will be comind down to Anambra with his newly married Kenyan wife , Emmy Kosigei Safe trip to Anambra ...

 After enacting into law the anti-gay legislation, Uganda is being purnished for that. Aids and loans were severely cut down by World bank and Europian Countries to Uganda.The question is,will Uganda have a change of mind over Homosexual? Lets wait and see the reaction of Uganda President,Yoweri Museveni,his advisers and supporters of the anti-gay law But it is not the only country to pass such measures recently; Nigeria and Russia have passed similar laws.  So, why is Uganda being singled out? And what is the reason for the increasing number of anti-gay laws in many parts of the world reports Al Jazeera

A WESTERN Diocese Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (ELCIN) pastor has called for the suspension of Okahao Parish activities pending the resolution of the problems that have besieged the church. Pastor Ferdinand Nashidengo's calls come after Okahao parishioners boycotted a service that was supposed to have been conducted by Bishop Josephat Shanghala at the weekend.The parishioners also booed at the bishop as their way of protesting the transfer of Pastor Hulda Shau-Aitana from the church. The decision to transfer Shau-Aitana was made in 2012, and no reasons were given reports   Allafrica news agency. Church members even presented a petition to the Presiding ELCIN Bishop Shakutamba Nambala, and the church council in Oniipa over the issue.In the petition, the members accused Bishop Shanghala of failing to lead the diocese, especially regarding the transfer of Shau-Aitana, which they described as unreasonable. Shanghala, who retires this month, had visited the parish with the ho...

Nigeria Osun State  governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola and his main challenger in the August governorship election, Senator Iyiola Omisore, weekend, despite  their political differences worshiped together at the annual Oke-Maria Pilgrimage, at Otan-Ayegbaju, Boluwaduro Local Government Area of the state. The Catholic Archbishop of Ibadan and Apostolic Administrator of Osogbo Catholic Diocese of Osogbo, Most Rev. Gabriel Abegunrin had  announced the likely attendance of the duo around 10.00pm on Saturday , urging devotees at the 'Maria Shrine' (prayer mountain), to shelve their political differences.. more brief

The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Kaduna State Thursday called on the federal government to address the frequent attacks on communities in the Southern part of Kaduna state and Plateau state before the situation degenerates into genocide. The CAN warning came following the recent killings of over 30 persons in Riyom Local government of Plateau State which shares border with Kaura Local Government of Kaduna state. Addressing a press conference in Kaduna on Thursday, the state Chairman of the of the association, Bishop George Dodo, also condemned the weekend killing of Zaria-based Islamic cleric, Sheikh Mohammed Awwal-Albani, along with his son and wife.Dodo said the attacks being unleashed on communities in Southern Kaduna and Plateau state were unacceptable

Al Jazeera English The head of the Anglican Church in Uganda has criticised the position of UK archbishops on homosexuality, saying "homosexual practice is incompatible with scripture". Stanley Ntagaali was reacting to a letter written by archbishops Justin Welby and John Sentamu, leaders of the worldwide Anglican Communion, in which the clergymen said that "victimisation or diminishment of human beings ... is anathema" to the Church of England and that the church was committed to "pastoral support and care of gay people". The clergymen addressed their letter to primates of the Anglican Communion, and to the presidents of Nigeria and Uganda, saying it was in response to questions raised about the Church of England's attitude to new legislation in several countries that penalise gay people. Sentamu, the archbishop of York, is originally from Uganda, whose parliament has passed an anti-homosexuality bill that still awaits presidential endorsement before ...

Kisumu Singh Sabha C airo Road, Milimani, |Post Box 132,  Kisumu, Kenya | muslimtimes Hindus have urged Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta and Vice President William Samoei Ruto to show strong political will to take care of country’s minorities in view of recent Kisumu incidents. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, reminded Kenyatta of his “core value” to “treat everyone fairly”. Zed pointed out to Ruto that if he wanted to “Transform Kenya into an Economic Power House”, Kenya needed to protect its minorities in order to attract foreign investments.According to reports, a monument in lakeside Kisumu, depicting a praying person and approved by the county, commissioned by Sikh community to commemorate over 100 years of Sikh presence in Kisumu, was removed last week following mob vandalizing. Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, stated that discrimination and unfairness faced by the Sikhs on the monument issue in Kisumu should not be ...

Adams Nossitter||mobile.nytimes.com BANGUI, Central African Republic — The streets of this capital city's center are nearly empty. A few citizens slowly walk the wide boulevards, outnumbered by French troops patrolling after recent deadly violence. The battered buildings remain, but much of the city's population has disappeared.It has rematerialized in a makeshift town by the airport at the edge of the real city. Almost anything can be bought in muddy paths of the impromptu market that has sprung up: flip-flops, dried fish, a haircut, yams, baguettes, gasoline, cheap handbags, okra, coffee, eggs, manioc fritters, clothes custom made by tailors sitting at old sewing machines. More than 100,000 people have moved to this rough, chaotic tent city in less than a month. In all, two-thirds of Bangui has picked up and moved, according to the United Nations. The new city — grimly called the Ledger by its inhabitants after the five-star hotel on Bangui's heights packed with governmen...

By Joshua Rhett miller||fox news Rev. Faye Pama Musa knew immediately why suspected Boko Haram militants burst into his home last year as his wife prepared dinner in the family’s northeastern Nigeria home. His stance against Christian persecution in the divided African nation had long made him a target. Musa, who served as the general overseer of the Rhema Assembly International Church and secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in Borno, saw the intruders near the front door of his home in Maiduguri as his wife, Mercy, prepped food. One of the couple’s daughters, Zion, had spotted the armed men just seconds earlier jumping a fence.“Today you are a dead man,” one of the gunmen reported said on May 14 as he dragged Musa to the porch. “Call your Jesus to help you, Mr. CAN man!” Zion Musa then begged the attackers to spare her father, a request met with a misfired bullet that caused her to faint. She survived but her 52-year-old father – a man who worked closely with Open ...

Image: assistnews.net Survivors of the Jan 6 killing of not less than 33 christians in a village in Plateau state, Nigeria said special task force (STF) soldiers stationed to protect them joined in the shooting and slaughter on those fleeing the attack. Antele Alamba,25, reporting from her hospital bed with bullet wounds in her leg told news agency tha hundreds of Muslim fulani herdsmen armed with guns and matchets attacked shonong village in Riyom local government area. They did so unprovoked, burning homes and butchering women an children."Before we knew it, the soldiers who were protecting us, joined fulani herdsmen armed shooting and got most of us killed", Alamba said as tears dripped down her cheeks. She added,' I was shot by soldiers I ran to for protection. We were all trapped in the village as there was no way for escape. We ran to the church premises and some soldiers ran after us. They were shooting and the herdsmen were shooting too. It was chaos and confusion...

  Tunde Fagbenle. Image: punchng.com And I say projections, not predictions. Prediction is what the herd of religious pastors, especially of pentecostal hue do in Nigeria particularly at this time of ushering a new year in. I have never stopped  to be baffled by it all, those hoodwinking balderdash they call predictions. And I'm more angrily perplexed at those(and they are in the millions) who lend their ears, let alone of hearts, to them. I don't believe in any of them. Indeed I don't even bother to listen or read to them both the message and the messenger. It's nothing more than a half- clever juggling of probabilities, no more than the pool gambling permutations, two from five,or any three from ten! The only difference is  whereas in the pool game you lose your money if you don't make the minimum number permed,these God-forsaking so-and-so don't loose anything, not money no face, by not making any number. Their blinded followers ensure that. If just one more ...

The French authorities announced the release of George Vandanbeusch, 42,a French priest who was kidnapped in November by Islamist militant in Northern Cameroon.He was reported to have been kidnapped... Read more

The Nigerian Pastor and general Overseer, Reedemed Christian Church Of God(RCCG) made this declaration known to touch individuals, the nation Nigeria and world at large.Here is his declarations -Individual; God said a divine promise of more than a decade ago will begin to find fulfillment. Someone can expect a prominent divine visitation that will radically alter the course of his or her life Someone will have the first taste. There will be quiet a fewnarrow escape of tragedies. -Nigeria; The future of Nigeria will be determined this year and not in 2015.The equation at the beginning of the year will be different from equation at the year end. Therefore .. Read more

The presence of Malawi President, Joyce Banda at SCOAN became a source of relief on the rumour spreading around that she will only be president for another two years after the 2014 election. TB Jousha welcomed Banda at a service held at SCOAN in Lagos, Nigeria which was beamed at Emmanuel T.V.Read more:   www.nyasatimes.com

via cbn news Twenty-two years of war between North and South Sudan ended when southerners gained independence in July 2011. But fighting in disputed areas of Sudan has continued as Khartoum attempts to control and Islamize non-Arabs by waging jihad on regions like Sudan's Nuba Mountains. A prominent Sudanese bishop is in Washington this week asking Americans to help alleviate the suffering. Macram Gassis, bishop of Sudan's El-Obeid Diocese, said Christians and others in the Nubas are still suffering at the hands of the Islamist regime."They are on the cross in a special way because bombing is daily, the Khartoum government has sealed all the entrances into the Nuba Mountains," Gassis explained. "So, there is no food, no medicine, no fuel, no nothing."Not far from the Nuba Mountains, near the border between Sudan and South Sudan, is the disputed region of Abiye. During recent referendum, the people of Abiye voted to join South Sudan, something Sudan...