Clerics urge sacrifice to overcome insecurity, unemployment

ARCHBISHOP of the Catholic Archdiocese of Onitsha and Metropolitan of Onitsha Ecclesiastical Province, Valerian Okeke, has called on Nigerians to increase in faith and pray against insecurity and unemployment in the country.

In the same vein, the President, Christ Miracle Church Mission ( CMCM), Peter Adebisi, has called on Nigerians to emulate Jesus Christ’s sacrificial life for the redemption of mankind and, therefore, live a life of impacting on the less privileged.

While Okeke spoke at the Easter Mass he celebrated for inmates in Onitsha, Adeoti spoke at the unveiling of Christ Ambassadors’ Education Endowment Fund ( CAEEF) in Lagos.

According to Okeke, faith and prayer are required to also push through the raging lawlessness and ethnic bigotry, among others, which have painted an unwholesome picture of the national ethos.

While celebrating Mass at Onitsha Correctional Centre, yesterday, he revealed that the Skill Acquisition Centre he built for soap making, tailoring, welding, computer services and shoe- making has got the nod of the Nigerian Correctional Service ( NCOS) for its fencing.

In his homily, the cleric described human life on earth as a journey of faith. Continuing in his Easter message entitled ‘ In Faith And Prayers, We Move’, he described faith as man’s response to God, who reveals himself and gives himself to man, and at the same time bringing man a supernatural light as he searches for the ultimate meaning of his life.

His words: “In our world today, especially in our country, Nigeria, where so many things are far from what they are expected to be, one needs faith to move on without stumbling.

“Where there are so many unfulfilled promises, insecurity, lawlessness, joblessness, disregard for due process and many more, one needs faith to draw near to God, believe that he exists and rewards those who seek Him in accordance