16th March 2015: Winners Chapel commences Covenant Hour of Prayer (CHoP), a one hour daily morning prayer/exhortation session on-site and online. The sessions were especially instrumental for running services and the Church system during the global lockdown of 2020. Many ministries now run daily onsite-online prayer sessions.
16th March 1517: Pope Leo X holds the last session of the Fifth Council of the Lateran at the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome, Italy. This was summoned by Pope Julius II in the year 1503 to restore peace between Catholic rulers and affirm the authority of the Pope.
16th March 2017: Pastor Mensa Otabil resigns as one of the 13-members Board of Trustees selected to lead Ghana’s National Cathedral in Accra, Ghana.
16th March 1970: The complete text of the New English Bible was jointly published by the University Presses of Oxford and Cambridge. The New Testament of the New English Bible was earlier published in 1961.
16th March 1974: Manuela Izunwa is born. She is the Wife of Pastor George Izunwa of Gateway International Church and the Convener of Stretch Summit For Women In Ministry.
16th March 1909: Marianne Hearn passes on to glory at the age of 75. She was a British Baptist teacher, author and hymn writer. She is known for the hymn: “Just As I Am Thine Own to Be.”
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