{"id":62144,"date":"2025-03-05T10:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T10:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62144"},"modified":"2025-03-05T10:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T10:13:07","slug":"embrace-lent-as-time-for-renewal-unity-can-urges-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/05\/embrace-lent-as-time-for-renewal-unity-can-urges-nigerians\/","title":{"rendered":"Embrace Lent as Time for Renewal, Unity, CAN Urges Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Nigerians mark Ash Wednesday, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has urged citizens to use the Lenten season as a time for reflection, sacrifice, and national healing, despite the economic and security challenges facing the country.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement signed by CAN President, Archbishop Daniel Okoh, the Christian body encouraged Nigerians of all faiths to rise above hardship, embrace prayer, charity, and renewal, and work toward a united and just nation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lent is a 40-day journey that calls us to look beyond our struggles and find strength in faith and community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This season resonates with the patience of mothers stretching meals, fathers toiling under the sun, and children praying for a brighter future,&#8221; Okoh said.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the rising cost of living and insecurity, CAN urged Nigerians to use the Lenten period to seek peace, share resources with neighbors, and support one another.<\/p>\n<p>The association also called for prayers for the nation&#8217;s leaders, urging them to govern with wisdom and compassion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lent is an opportunity to release bitterness, embrace unity, and work for a Nigeria where justice and dignity prevail,&#8221; Okoh added.<\/p>\n<p>CAN emphasized that the spirit of sacrifice and endurance, deeply rooted in the lives of ordinary Nigerians, should inspire all to contribute to national renewal.<\/p>\n<p>As the Lenten journey begins, CAN urged all Nigerians, regardless of creed, to embrace this season as a time for transformation, hope, and collective progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0 As Nigerians mark Ash Wednesday, the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has urged citizens to use the Lenten season as a time for reflection, sacrifice, and national healing, despite the economic and security challenges facing the country. In a statement signed by CAN President, Archbishop Daniel Okoh, the Christian body encouraged Nigerians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62146,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62144\/revisions\/62146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}