{"id":1270,"date":"2020-08-16T19:33:42","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T19:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/umuakatimes.com\/topnews\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2020-08-16T19:34:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T19:34:11","slug":"bringing-priests-to-pray-during-oghu-festival-is-an-abuse-of-culture-chinedu-onye-ntunu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umuakatimes.com\/topnews\/bringing-priests-to-pray-during-oghu-festival-is-an-abuse-of-culture-chinedu-onye-ntunu\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cBringing priests to pray during Oghu Festival is an abuse of culture.\u201d Chinedu Onye Ntunu."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='epvc-post-count'><span class='epvc-eye'><\/span>  <span class=\"epvc-count\"> 1,122<\/span><span class='epvc-label'> Views<\/span><\/div><p>Chief Aloysius Chinede Iwuajoku popularly known as \u201cChinedu Onye Ntunu\u201d has frowned at the act of bringing churchmen, especially orthodox priests to conduct prayers during the celebration of Oghu festivals.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Iwuajoku stressed this point last week when Umuaka Times paid him a visit. According to him, it is an abuse of culture for our people to invite prayers in order to have a hitch-free oghu celebration. He described this act as a practice never known to oghu dance and culture. The high profile community leader went further to say that ever before the advent of Christianity in African, \u201cour forefathers have been celebrating the oghu culture and God was blessing them during their time. He wondered why people would like to incorporate priestly blessings into the culture \u201cas if God would not hear our prayers when we pray.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1271\" src=\"http:\/\/umuakatimes.com\/topnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/b10.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umuakatimes.com\/topnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/b10.png 413w, https:\/\/umuakatimes.com\/topnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/b10-255x300.png 255w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no part of Oghu culture that allows for a blessing of the festival by a priest. Therefore, bringing a priest to bless the event suggests that we Africans can\u2019t receive God\u2019s blessings unless from a foreign religion,\u201d he told Umuaka Times.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Iwuajoku also used the opportunity to pray for the unity and progress of Umuaka community and asked God to protect the community from Covid19.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1,122 ViewsChief Aloysius Chinede Iwuajoku popularly known as \u201cChinedu Onye Ntunu\u201d has frowned at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,2,1],"tags":[57,52,43],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u201cBringing priests to pray during Oghu Festival is an abuse of culture.\u201d Chinedu Onye Ntunu. -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" 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