Posted On : August 20, 2007 4:07 PM | Posted By : Admin ACO
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Archbishop Rt Revd Drexel W. Gomez speaks to Jamaicans via radio Power 106FM on Saturday evening, just after Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller made a national address, as the Caribbean Island prepares for a direct hit of hurricane Dean on Saturday evening.
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Posted On : August 6, 2007 3:54 PM | Posted By : Admin ACO
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Songs by late reggae legends Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, both devout Rastafarians, will be included in a new collection of Anglican church hymnals in Jamaica.
Marley's ‘One Love’ and Tosh's ‘Psalm 27’ will be the first reggae tunes to appear in songbooks alongside traditional worship music on the island that gave birth to reggae, said church leaders preparing a new collection of hymns.
The Revd Ernle Gordon, a church spokesman, said Friday that members of the Anglican Church of Jamaica were enthusiastic about including the reggae musicians' music in the hymnals, despite their sometimes vocal opposition to Christianity.
‘They may have been antichurch, but they were not anti-God or antireligion,’ said Gordon, adding that the songs would help modernize Jamaica's hymnals.
Marley and Tosh, who died in the 1980s after becoming international music stars, practiced Rastafarianism, a faith founded by descendants of slaves in response to black oppression.
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Posted On : September 30, 2005 4:45 PM | Posted By : Webmaster
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The momentum and excitement in anticipation of the first Church Games set for October 11-21 is building very quickly.
The games officially got underway on Saturday with a Cross Run that is similar to the Commonwealth or the Olympic games torch run where a representative from each of denomination had the opportunity to run with the cross as it made its way around the city before ending at the Sir Kendal Isaacs Gym.
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