The leadership of the Nigerian Inter-Religious Council, NIREC, has called for a three-day fasting and prayers session throughout the country to seek the face of God and mercy in the fight against coronavirus.
The programmes co-ordinated by the president of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Dr. Samson Ayokunle, and the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar Mohammadu IV, is scheduled to run from Friday, July 3 to Sunday, July 5, 2020.
It would be recalled that since April 30, 2020, the Nigerian Inter-Religious Council, NIREC, has been calling on all Christians and Muslims to take part in the national weekly prayer conducted online with zoom meeting every Thursday in collaboration with the Office of the Secretary to Government of the Federation, OSGF, and other stakeholders.
NIREC leadership said it appreciated the efforts of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 which had done all that was humanly possible to create awareness on how to keep safe from infection of the coronavirus.
It is in furtherance of the effort that the three days fasting and prayer session (July 3-5, 2020) for every Nigerian, has been called.
Muslims will begin on Friday, 3 July, 2020, by praying in the Abuja National Mosque while Christians will end the prayer on Sunday 5 July, 2020 at the National Christian Centre, Abuja at 3:00 p.m.
Selected Christian leaders are said to have been invited to participate in the programme.
The prayers will respect social distancing.
NIREC has asked everybody to seek the face of God in fasting and prayers for God to put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic.
NIREC, while saying everyone must take part in the prayers in their different homes, committed everyone “under the shelter of the wings of our Almighty God, who is able to keep you from falling, and present you faultless before His seat of Glory with exceeding joy in Jesus’ name!”
