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Insight Training Centre Makes Replica Church

Four students of the Insight Training Centre have recently constructed and presented a replica of the St. Therese’s parish compound to the congregation on Sunday during mass. According to Augustine Manneh, a lecturer at Insight Training Centre, four of their students doing construction in the persons of Tony Mendy, Marie Therese Jatta, Mohamed Bittaye & Mafugi Hydara, sat together to formulate and construct the St. Therese’s Church, the memorial hall, the bell tower, the presbytery and the...

Holy Cross Church Exalts the Cross

The Holy Cross Catholic Church at Brusibi on Sunday celebrated their day with parishioners and visitors from far and wide. This is a trend in the Catholic Church that encourages the celebration of feast days through which many Catholics get to interact and love each other the more. The love shared shows the extent to which the early Christians came together as one, sharing and praying together. Panorama writes how the Bishop served as the chief celebrant with hundreds of well wishers in...

Holy Family and the New Presbytery

The Catholic Church, in its positive stride to bring God very close to the people has always seen the need where the need is greatest. And such is the new presbytery built at the HolyFamilyChurch at Bakau. The project was started under the then parish priest, Rev. Fr. Pius Gidi CSSp. The baton changed when Rev. Fr. Louis Mendy CSSp took over as the new parish priest of the Stella Maris parish in Bakau. Panorama writes about the opening and what the presbytery means to the Catholic community of...

The Exaltation of The Cross

The Exaltation of the Cross-is celebrated as a feast in the Catholic Church. This is also known as The Holy Cross-, which is acclaimed as a symbol of hope and salvation for those who believe in it. The cross in those days was meant for the execution of hardened criminals, as in the case of the two criminals on the right and left of hand Christ Jesus. Today the Cross has remained a symbol of Christians’ own suffering as Christ was nailed to the Cross, died and was raised after three days into...

Parents, Society, Church and the Youth

Youth are the future leaders, it is said and the Church recognizes this point and takes it as vital. Youth are given preference in the Church for their own development and growth. The youth of the Gambian church have a pivotal role to play in the life of the Catholic Church and in society at large. Certain hard times bring back youth from realizing their full potentials for the realization of their role as future leaders in society. The youth also others will blame for bad attitude towards...

Historical Family Day at St. Therese

St. Therese’s Catholic Church over the weekend staged their first and historical Family Day. The chief celebrant pointed out the real meaning of family in contrast to the western style family system. This was organised by the Parish Pastoral Council, inviting all parishioners to come and see themselves as a single family in the same faith. It helped parishioners know each other share and talk on different topics. The Family Day ended with the sudden death of Anthony J. Mendy, the president of...

Maiden May Crowning at Blessed Sacrament Church

The tradition of the Catholic Church is unchanging as it is shown in the activities of even the newest Catholic Church in the country. Church of the Blessed Sacrament at Kanifing opened only last year has picked up Mary Crowning at the end of the month of May, to show their respect and love for the mother of the church. The month of May is the month of Mary particularly dedicated to the Mother of God, Mary plays a center role in the life of Catholics who pay special homage to her for her...

A new church auditorium inaugurated

A  project worth half a million dalasis, involving the construction of a new auditorium, was on Saturday inaugurated at the Calvary United Community Church (CUCC) in kanifing south. The ceremony which  attracted over hundreds of worshippers, amongst them pastors and Reverends from various christian denominations across the country. A special prayer on the theme ‘Arise and Shine’ was held. Speaking at the ceremony, Pastor Bidwell Mendy, one of the founding fathers of the (CUCC) said the church...

St. Charles Names Mr. and Miss St. Charles

The St. Charles Catholic Church at Fajikunda named their Mr. and Miss of their church. This is the first of its kind in the country although Fr. Francis Eyo had earlier on organised it at Brikama when he was there. This he said followed the government’s organising Miss Black USA followed by lots of other organizations’ organising a similar thing. The Mr. and Miss St. Charles competition geared towards the development of the youth points out the good in all the participants. In the competition...

Khalif of Tijaany Tarikha Passes Away

The Khalifa of the Tijaany Tarikha, Cherno Habibou Daha Taal, has passed away peacefully, this paper can reveal. Grandson of Sheikh Omar Foutiyou Taal and Khalif-General of the family, Cherno Habibou Daha Taal, left this earth for Allah’s Golden Shores on 14 April 2008, in Louga, Senegal. Sadly missed and lovingly remembered by heart-broken Muslims across the sub-region and beyond, Cherno Habibou was born 90 years ago [1918] in Gouye Mbeut, Louga. He is expected to be laid to rest near the...