{"id":548,"date":"2024-08-01T13:33:38","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T13:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=548"},"modified":"2024-08-01T13:33:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T13:33:38","slug":"jubilation-galore-as-parishioners-of-ckc-kurudu-celebrate-their-cultural-heritage-fg-should-exploit-our-cultural-heritage-to-unite-nigerians-rev-fr-dim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2024\/08\/01\/jubilation-galore-as-parishioners-of-ckc-kurudu-celebrate-their-cultural-heritage-fg-should-exploit-our-cultural-heritage-to-unite-nigerians-rev-fr-dim\/","title":{"rendered":"Jubilation galore as Parishioners of CKC Kurudu celebrate their cultural heritage\u00a0 ….FG should exploit\u00a0 our Cultural heritage to unite Nigerians-Rev Fr Dim"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Parishioners of Christ the King Catholic Church (CKC) Kurudu on Sunday last week rolled out their drums as various ethnic nationalities came out in great numbers, to\u00a0 display their rich cultural heritage while celebrating this year’s cultural Day.<\/div>\n
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The occasion featured; March- pass, Dancing and display of\u00a0 native delicacies by different ethnic\u00a0groups.<\/div>\n
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Jubilation in the parish knew no bounds to the extent that the Chief Shepherd of the Parish, Very Rev. Father Thaddeus Chike Dim who doubled as the immediate past Vica of the Carmelite Order in Nigeria and his Associate Priest, Rev Fr Cyril Udom(OCD) joined Parishioners of CKC in the dance by different cultural groups to celebrate the cultural festival.<\/div>\n
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Speaking to the Publisher of Daily Echoes Online, Mr IGNATIUS OKOROCHA on the import of\u00a0 this year’s Cultural Day celebration, the Parish Priest, Christ the King Catholic Church (CKC) Kurudu, Rev Fr Thaddeus Chike Dim(OCD) said,<\/div>\n
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“Today is a very special day set apart by the Parish Pastoral Council (PPC) Kurudu to celebrate our culture. It is something we call ” The Cultural Day” So, it is cultural Day because we are celebrating our cultural heritage today.<\/div>\n
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” We thank the Lord for all the blessings we have received from him as people from different cultural background. Even though, we speak different languages, we are still one family of God and we are united. For this, we came together to celebrate one another and to celebrate our culture and that is why\u00a0 there is jubilation\u00a0 in the parish today.<\/div>\n
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On what this year’s cultural Day celebration portend\u00a0 for the parish in particular and the country in general, he said,”I think it is special to celebrate this festival this year because if you see the level of hardship\u00a0 Nigerians are going through\u00a0 and more so, what politicians are making us to\u00a0 believe based on our different\u00a0 cultural background, you will begin to wonder why things are going the way are. Politicians tell us that we are enemies to each other, but that is very wrong and what is happening is very wrong.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0So, today as we are celebrating our culture, we are celebrating unity in diversity. Arewa, Igbos, Yoruba, Hausa, Idoma, Edo Delta etc all of us are one people, one nation under one umbrella.<\/div>\n
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Continuing he said,”God has created us as one people. The diversity is something wonderful but politicians want us to see variety as something bad, therefore we started killing each other. No! we are children of one God and we have to\u00a0 love one another and we have to continue to celebrate one another. That is why we are celebrating\u00a0 today\u00a0 and that is\u00a0 what makes the celebration of this year’s cultural Day different from the previous ones.<\/div>\n
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“When you look at what is going on in the country today, we can even take arms and start killing each other but now when we celebrate together, we are saying that we are children of God under one\u00a0 God.”<\/div>\n
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On his advice to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government he said,” my\u00a0 advise to the present administration is that the reason why they are in government is to serve the people but now the people are crying and our leaders should wake up and listen to the cry of the people.<\/div>\n
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President Tinubu’s government should consider the level hardship Nigerians are passing through today and find ways to alleviate the suffering so that people will feel happy and\u00a0 secured in their homes.<\/div>\n
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Right now people are not secured, they are crying and are hungry in their father’s land. It is not how it should be.”<\/div>\n
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Further commenting on the importance of culture he said, “what has happened in this parish is something the government should learn from and adopt as a policy aimed at enriching the nation’s culture.<\/div>\n
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\u00a0The government of the day should learn how to bring people together and not to scatter the citizens. Sometimes we see our politicians and those who are leading us, making derogatory comments about different groups, setting up different groups for their own selfish earn. It is not how it should be.<\/div>\n
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” We should love one another, they should promote love, they should promote unity in diversity the country. That is the only way you can have progress. When you are divided, you can not have progress. With unity, comes progress.<\/div>\n
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What we are celebrating today is something the government should emulate, the richness of other people’s culture and promote it and that\u00a0 \u00a0will make the\u00a0 the people happy and there will be progress in the country.<\/div>\n
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On the import of the fund raising during the cultural Day celebration, the clergymen said, the committee that organized the event was raising fund to complete the renovation work in our church and the renovation will require some money to complete and\u00a0 provide a befitting place of worship for our\u00a0 parishioners.<\/div>\n
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Earlier, Chairman, 2024 CKC\u00a0 Cultural Day celebration committee, Bro Wilfred Sunday Abu said, the actualization of this year’s cultural Day celebration is by God’s grace. He noted that “watching what Nigerians are passing through today, it is just by prayer and since it is an annual event, we prayed at the planning stage that God should help all the communities to contribute to its success.<\/div>\n
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“We planned and planned and planned. Infact we made the communities to understand that it is not a question of money but celebration of our rich cultural heritage. Celebrating ourselves, celebrating our God. Today we have come to celebrate our culture,” he noted.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Parishioners of Christ the King Catholic Church (CKC) Kurudu on Sunday last week rolled out their drums as various ethnic nationalities came out in great numbers, to\u00a0 display their rich cultural heritage while celebrating this year’s cultural Day. The occasion featured; March- pass, Dancing and display of\u00a0 native delicacies by different ethnic\u00a0groups. Jubilation in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[325,324],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-christ-the-king-catholic-church-kurudu","tag-cultural-day-celebration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","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=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}