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Kresta in the Afternoon – February 27, 2023 – Hour 1

What will happen when Jesus separates the sheep and the goats? Al discusses as we dive into this week’s Gospel. Also, Nina Shea has a troublesome update on the elections in Nigeria and Peter Herbeck invites you to join Noelle Mering for a presenation on being Awake – and being Woke.

 

Kresta Comments: The Sheep and the Goats

We get a very dramatic reading in today’s Gospel: the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats. In today’s culture, such a “judgmental” and “exclusive” teaching is very distasteful. Al takes a closer look.

Will Nigeria’s Election Make or Break the Country?

Results are trickling in from Nigeria’s presidential election. The elections took on religious significance after the governing All Progressive Congress party decided to field an all-Muslim ticket, a departure from the usual practice of nominating a Christian and a Muslim. The ticket drew support from prominent Islamic clerics, who encouraged voters to see the election as a “jihad.” We talk more about it with Nina Shea.

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Nigerian Christians brace for election as Islamic clerics call all-Muslim ticket ‘a jihad’

Nigeria’s Newest Cardinal: Presidential Election Will ‘Either Make or Break Nigeria’

Tinubu ahead in Nigeria election as opposition parties reject vote

 

Nina Shea is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Center for Religious Freedom at the Hudson Institute and has been an international human-rights lawyer for more than 30 years. She works extensively for the advancement of individual religious freedom and is the co-author of “Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Religious Freedom Worldwide” and “Persecuted: The Global War on Christians.” She's also a contributing author to The Persecution and Genocide of Christians in the Middle East.

Are you Woke – or are you Awake?

The world claims that the greatest virtue we can have today is to be “Woke.” The term may be new, but its ideology goes back for decades. Fundamentally, it is more than a political movement – it is a pseudo-spiritual one, and it must be reckoned with. But St Paul tell us in Ephesians not to be woke, but to Awake and receive the light of Christ. How do we do this? Renewal Ministries and Ave Maria Radio invite you to join Noelle Mering for her presentation Awake, not Woke. Peter Herbeck gives us a preview.

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Register for the Noelle Mering event 

Peter Herbeck is the executive vice president and director of missions for Renewal Ministries. For more than thirty years, he has been actively involved in evangelization and Catholic renewal throughout the US, Canada, Africa, and Eastern Europe. Peter is a co-host for the weekly television programs The Choices We Face and Crossing the Goal. He also hosts the daily radio show Fire on the Earth. He and his wife Debbie have co-written Lessons from the School of Love: Cultivating a Christ-Centered Marriage and he is the author of the booklet Receiving Fire. Visit renewalministries.net.
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