{"id":2489,"date":"2025-03-05T13:21:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T13:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=2489"},"modified":"2025-03-05T13:21:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T13:21:46","slug":"ash-wednesday-ncpc-boss-urges-christians-to-uphold-justice-fairness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/ash-wednesday-ncpc-boss-urges-christians-to-uphold-justice-fairness\/","title":{"rendered":"Ash Wednesday: NCPC Boss urges Christians to uphold justice, fairness\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">By Our Reporter<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">As Catholics all over the world commence Lenten observation on Wednesday, the\u00a0 Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Bishop Stephen Adegbite, has called on Christians in Nigeria to uphold justice and fairness during the Lenten season.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In his Ash Wednesday message, Bishop Adegbite emphasized the importance of putting God at the center of their fasting and prayers. &#8220;When you fast, you must uphold justice and fairness, God must be at the centre of it all,&#8221; he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Bishop Adegbite explained that Lent is a period of sober reflection, abstinence from food, water, and other pleasures, observed for forty days and forty nights.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He encouraged Nigerians to continue praying together, regardless of their religious affiliations, highlighting the significance of interfaith harmony.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The NCPC boss specifically called for prayers for President Bola Tinubu, the First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, Vice President Kashim Shettima, and other top government officials, seeking God&#8217;s wisdom and direction for them.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Bishop Adegbite prayed that the merciful Lord would bless Nigeria and Nigerians during this fasting period and beyond.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Reporter As Catholics all over the world commence Lenten observation on Wednesday, the\u00a0 Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Bishop Stephen Adegbite, has called on Christians in Nigeria to uphold justice and fairness during the Lenten season. In his Ash Wednesday message, Bishop Adegbite emphasized the importance of putting God [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1562,1564,1561,1560,1563],"class_list":["post-2489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion","tag-affiliations","tag-affiliationse","tag-lent","tag-observance","tag-significance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489\/revisions\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}