Judicial Vicar of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, Owerri-Ebeiri, Orlu Local Government Area, Imo State, Rev. Fr Don Nnagha, has called on Nigerians to use religious tolerance as a tool for national cohesion.
Nnagha disclosed this in Orlu on Saturday while officiating at the burial of one his parishioners, late Mrs Esther Okwara.
According to the clergyman, divine judgement comes after death and it’s important Nigerians jettison religious, ethnic divides and embrace tolerance as one of the ways of making peace with God.
He noted that this move would enable an individual earn a fair judgement before God and guarantee peaceful coexistence of Nigerians from various parts of the country.
“In the event of death, everything becomes vanity. Therefore, it is the best to live in peace with one’s neighbour, to love your neighbour as yourself irrespective of ethnicity or religion.
“We are all created in the image and likeness of God and religion or ethnicity are only artificial differentiations that are ephemeral,” he said.
Nnagha also described Okwara who was a community leader and a philanthropist as a devout, dedicated and humane Christian who led a peaceful, religious and committed life.
He prayed God to console her loved ones and to grant her eternal rest.
Discussion about this post