Catholic Faithfuls Mark Ash Wednesday In Black Attires

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ZAINAB TANIMU
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Catholic Faithfuls Mark Ash Wednesday In Black Attires
Zainab Tanimu
Kaduna, North  – West, Nigeria

Ash Wednesday is one of the most popular and important holy days in the liturgical calendar.

It opens Lent, a season of fasting and prayer.

Ash Wednesday takes place 46 days before Easter Sunday, and is chiefly observed by Catholics, though many other Christians observe it too.

This year’s Ash Wednesday took a different form as Catholic faithfuls across Nigeria today Wednesday dressed in black attires to protest the security challenge the country is facing.

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According to the Catholic Bishops of Nigeria, the Church had instructed all its members throughout the country to put on black attires to mark this year’s ash Wednesday and to press home their demand against the spate of Insecurity in the country.
The statement signed by the president of the CBCN, Archbishop Augustine Akubeze, was to be read at masses across Catholic churches today.
At today’s “Day of Prayer Procession” to kick off the Lenten season and protest the state of insecurity in the country, Catholics dressed mostly in black attended the Ash Wednesday service in Our Lady Queens of Nigeria in Abuja.,
The statement also called on the government to live up to its responsibility of protecting Nigerians.
Stressing the importance of peace, the statement reads: “May we, once again, remind all the arms of the government in Nigeria and all whose responsibility it is to protect Nigerians that without security there can be no peace, and without peace, there can be no development or national growth.”
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