Addressing hundreds of Christians who thronged All Saints Cathedral to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus on Easter Sunday, Ntagali noted that Christians today are faced with a number of challenges such as diseases, poverty, drought, unemployment and domestic violence which needs Jesus' intervention.
This year the Orthodox churches celebrate Easter on the same Sunday that Roman Catholics and Protestants mark the holy festival. Eggs are often associated with Easter because they are a symbol of new life and fertility.
The assertion that our entire faith rests on Easter is not original with me. "Christmas and Easter give us full churches, sometimes overflowing", said Monsignor Michael Becker, pastor of St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Lakemont.
The events of Easter provide the foundation on which the whole of the Christian faith is built. "And it's just great fun to be able to open up the church, to be able to invite people, their kids, their family, their children to come and to just have a really good time celebrating this fantastic Easter weekend", said Pastor John. The Bible teaches us that the only way that we can inherit everlasting life is through the gift of God's grace, and it is only by God's grace that he sent His son to die on the cross to save sinners. We probably have twice as many people. Easter lilies adorned the altar in many churches. Her heart cries out to see Jesus in her desire to take hold of his corpse. "As we celebrate this very important occasion, let us try to practice, in our day-to-day life, these eternal ideals which can make the world a better place to live in".
China urges return to negotiations over N. Korea
Russia's foreign minister says he hopes the US will not take unilateral action against North Korea as it did recently in Syria. Blue huts straddle the border, where tense negotiations have been held between the North, South and the USA since armistice.
Like other parts of the globe, Christians celebrated Easter with religious fervour and zeal here on Sunday. They both ran, but the other disciple ran faster than Peter and arrived at the tomb first; he bent down and saw the burial cloths there, but did not go in.
Governor P.Sadasivam said that the resurrection of Jesus Christ inspire us to serve the weak and the downtrodden in a spirit of love and oneness.
How can one claim that Jesus was a good man who did good deeds and gave good teachings if it was all a fraud?
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