13th March, 2019: Apostle Michael Orokpo receives his first invitation to preach in Tulsa Oklahoma in USA. This is coming days after his clips (made in obedience to God’s instruction), ‘The Puritan Capsule’ had gone to seven nations of the world.
13th March, 1815: James Hepburn is born in Milton, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a Presbyterian medical missionary who supervised the first complete translation of the Bible into Japanese published in 1888.
13th March, 1925: Austin Peay, Governor of Tennessee, signs the “Butler Bill,” prohibiting any teaching that contradicted the Genesis creation story.
13th March, 2013: Conclave elects Argentine-born Jorge Mario Bergoglio to be Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. The first pope from the Americas. He takes the name Francis the 1st.
13th March, 2001: The Standing Committee of the Church of Nigeria held a meeting at St. Cyprian’s Church, Port Harcourt, where a resolution for the creation of the Ika Diocese was made. It constitutes of two Archdeaconries (Ika and Igbodo)
13th March, 2016: Rev. Oluranti Odubogun who served as the second Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Ife retires after clocking age 70.
13th March, 2024: Abundant Life Gospel Church pastored by Rev. Dr Janet Onaolapo opens a new branch in Araromi, Ibadan, Oyo State.
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