{"id":24687,"date":"2024-03-30T16:02:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T16:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/easter-get-involved-in-politics-can-tells-nigerian-christians\/"},"modified":"2024-03-30T16:02:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T16:02:36","slug":"easter-get-involved-in-politics-can-tells-nigerian-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/easter-get-involved-in-politics-can-tells-nigerian-christians\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter: Get involved in politics \u2013 CAN tells Nigerian Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Oyo State chapter, has advised Nigerian Christians to remain united, focused and not to be complacent about national issues.<\/p>\n<p>The state chairman of the association, Apostle Joshua Akinyemiju, in an Easter message issued on Saturday in Ibadan, charged Christians to be proactive and get involved in political activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is righteousness that exalts a nation, so if people of God are in positions of authority, peace will reign and the economy will be managed with the fear of God.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose in position of authority should always make justice, fairness and equity in governance their watchword. They must rule or administer their constituencies with the fear of God.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur political leaders should remember the day of reckoning when everyone shall appear before the judgment throne of God.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we celebrate Easter 2024, we must take to heart the sacrifice and suffering made by Jesus Christ on the Cross.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlmighty God will renew and strengthen us spiritually, heal our land and remain gracious to us all,\u2019\u2019 he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Akinyemiju emphasized that Easter concluded the Passion of Christ which began with a 40-day period of fasting and prayers.<\/p>\n<p>He further stated that it should be a period for Christians to remember the ultimate expression of God\u2019s love to mankind that was exhibited more than 2000 years ago when Christ died for all, including sinners.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that Easter, also known as Resurrection Day, is a time to celebrate and mark Jesus\u2019 resurrection and ascension to Heaven, putting the Christian faith on a pedestal of hope to rest upon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince God raised Jesus from the dead, nothing else really matters and no one can successfully argue that Christianity is not true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Resurrection means Jesus is who He claimed to be; that He has the power He claimed to have and that He did what He promised to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must always exhibit a high standard of camaraderie as we love one another and continue to ask God for peace and security in Oyo State and in Nigeria as a whole,\u2019\u2019 Akinyemiju added.<\/p>\n<p>Easter: Get involved in politics \u2013 CAN tells Nigerian Christians<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Oyo State chapter, has advised Nigerian Christians to remain united, focused and not to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5406,12889,15],"tags":[2243,12890,180],"class_list":["post-24687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-can","category-easter","category-news","tag-can","tag-easter","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}