Adegunle Olugbamila
The office of Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland, will, on Monday, hosts the maiden Aare Onakakanfo Christmas Carol.
Director of programme Dr Adebiyi, said the event would hold at All Seasons Plaza, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos.
Philips said the Christmas Carol is to spread joy and celebrate the season with people from across the world.
He said: “We are in the festive season, and in the spirit of Christmas. We are organising the maiden Aareonakakanfo Christmas Carol which would capture the ‘Nine Lessons of Christmas’ to be performed by nine prominent clerics from across different churches’.
Philips added that various churches have been invited to participate in the Fiesta that would henceforth become annual.
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“This is our own way of appreciating God, the office of the Aare Onakakanfo of Yorubaland is an institution with vision that has always been translated to reality. The theme for this year edition is titled: ‘The king is born’ Matthew chapter 2 verse 2″.
“In projecting the office of the Aare Onakakanfo, we have made significant efforts to make sure that the event makes a big impact in the Christian world”.
“The Carol is to tell the world that we are liberal on the issue of religion. We are also using the event to propagate the Christian beliefs and uphold the spirit of the season by telling the world that birth of christ is not an ordinary story, but an interesting episode of what make Christianity what it is today.
“Apart from organising the Carol, we believe it is one of our Christian social responsibilities to find a way of reaching out the people, irrespective of their religious affiliations,” Philips concluded.
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