Lagos –  Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, the President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), has urged Muslim leaders to manifest the teachings of sacrifice and love for their fellow countrymen as Islam demands.

Oritsejafor, in his Eid-El-Kabir message to Muslims, urged the Muslim Ummah to use the occasion to continue to preach peace and unity to their followers and display love toward one another.

The CAN President called on Islamic leaders in the country to use the occasion to re-orientate the minds through the preaching of tolerance and the fear of God to the militants.

He also urged members of the Boko Haram sect to use the occasion of this year’s Eid-El-Kabir to embrace permanent peace.

“Violence ultimately does not help any situation, instead it aggravates it.

“They should embrace peace because the progenitor of the Islam is said to be a man of peace who had advocated peace as a basis for the practice of the Islamic faith.’’

According to him, religion should inculcate in any individual the virtues of love, humility and peaceful co-existence with neighbours, irrespective of differences being the hallmarks of godliness.

The CAN President emphasised that without peace there would not be any meaningful development in any part of the country.

He charged adherents of the Islamic faith to pray for the peace of the nation at all times. (NAN)

-Vanguard

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