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| kobo |
Posted - 22 Jan 2014 : 10:13:55
1. A great loss to nation of a senior citizen, elder & community leader! Arthur Cates and Waa Banjul with this obituary announcement:
"The Entire West African Community Mourn The loss of one of its Finest of Humankind. Our deepest condolence goes out to his Very beautiful and immediate family and All the rest of his relatives and friends.
May His Beloved Soul Rest In Eternal Peace....!!!!"
2. Bishop Tiwela Johnson Dies!!
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
The Bishop of the Anglican Church in Banjul Tilewa Johnson has died, the Freedom Newspaper can report. The late Bishop was playing tennis and he fell down on the lawn and later died. Reports have it that the Christian leader might have died of heart attack. The sad incident happened today.......
Source: Freedom News & full report
3. Rev Johnson’s New Year message
Thursday, January 02, 2014
The Most Reverend Dr. S. Tilewa Johnson Bishop of The Gambia Archbishop of the church of the Province of West Africa has also delivered his New Year message to the nation.......
Source: Daily Observer News & full report
4. Rt. Rev. Dr Tilewa Johnson is ‘Person of the Year’ 2012
Friday, January 04, 2013
The Most Rt. Rev. Dr. S. Tilewa Johnson has been designated ‘Person of the Year’ 2012, by the Gambia News and Report Weekly Magazine.......
Source: Daily Observer News & full report
RIP! |
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| kobo |
Posted - 24 Feb 2014 : 14:06:41
 1.Archbishop Tilewa Johnson Interred
Burial took place last Friday at the Bishops Court, Banjul of the Most Rev’d Solomon Tilewa, Ethelbert Willie Johnson.
The late archbishop passed away a couple of weeks ago after a game of tennis at the Fajara Club, where he was an active member.
Prior to the interment, a pontificalfuneral and requiem mass was held at the Independence Stadium,Bakau, presided over by His grace, the Most Rev. Daniel Y. Sarfo, acting Primate of the Church of the Province of West Africa CPWA (Anglican Communion) who also doubles as the Archbishop of the Internal Province of Ghana.
The service was graced by thousands of Gambians from all walks of life and other dignitaries from further afield and from across the large expanse of the Christian communion worldwide.
Tributes to the memory of the late Most Rev. Johnson were also delivered at a pre-burial vigil at the Christ Church Serrekunda where hundreds gatheredto celebrate his life and works to the Christian and other religions communities and The Gambia as a whole.
The funeral cortege started at the Abiding Word Ministry, Bakau, led by a procession of the clergy, family members, friends and sympathizers to the Independence Stadium for the mass in the forenoon.
A high powered delegation led by Mr. Bala Garba Jahumpa, Minister for Works and Construction was also present to represent the government......
Source: The Point News & more full report
2. Late Archbishop Tilewa Johnson laid to rest
Monday, February 24, 2014
Thousands of mourners including both Christians and Muslims Friday converged on the Independence Stadium in Bakau to pay their last respects to Archbishop Rtd. Rev. Dr. Solomon Tilawa Ethelbert Willie Johnson, who passed away on 21st January, 2014.
The late Johnson, Anglican Bishop of Banjul, and the Ninth Archbishop and Primate of the Anglican Church of the Province of West Africa, who was to turn 60 this month, fell on a lawn tennis court on January 21st before being pronounced dead at the Medical Research Council (MRC).
News of Archbishop Tilewa`s passing was received with great shock by many Gambians, as he was seen as a great role model due to his self-comportment and dedication to the service of God.
The funeral mass for the late archbishop was attended by top Christian scholars from within the sub-region. A high-level government delegation at the funeral was led by the minister of Transport, Works, and Infrastructure, Balla Garba Jahumpa.
The late archbishop was first laid at the Church of Christ in Serrekunda at 11am where hundreds of mourners had the opportunity to pay their final respects to him before proceeding to the Independence Stadium for the final service......
Source: Daily Observer News & more full report
3. THE LIFE OF BISHOP JOHNSON
TRIBUTE
THE LIFE OF BISHOP JOHNSON
The Most Reverend Dr. Solomon Tilewa Ethelbert Willie Johnson, the 9th Primate and Metropolitan Archbishop of the Church of the Province of West Africa (CPWA), 1st Archbishop of the Internal Province of West Africa (IPWA), the 6th Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Gambia and the Chairman of the Gambia Christian Council, on Tuesday 21 January, 2o 14, transited earthly life for eternity, abruptly. Almighty God withdrew His soul from his body while the Primate was at the zenith of his ecclesiastical career.
"Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked I shall return. The LORD gave; the LORD has taken away; Blessed be the name o f the LORD". The Primate transited earthly life for eternity abruptly, while the Primate was at the zenith of his ecclesiastical career. He shepherded the Anglican faithful in nine nation states o f the CPWA, ten dioceses in the country of Ghana, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Guinea Conakry, Bissau, Liberia, The Gambia, Senegal and Cape Verde Islands.
There was no other higher ecclesiastical position for the Primate and Metropolitan to climb on this earth.
Dr. Solomon Tilewa was the second of two sons of the family of Samuel Daniel and Eliza Leonora Johnson (nee George). Unlike Victor Clayton his elder brother, Solomon Tilewa was a Banjul thorough-bred- those whom we refer to as Samba-Banjul. His parents took him to local Methodist Schools. He entered the Albion Infant School in 1959 and three years later, progressed to Wesley Primary School from 1962-66 in Banjul.
Having passed the highly competitive Primary 6 Common Entrance national examination, he earned a place at the Gambia High School in September 1966. A gain, soon after his ordinary Level Examination, Solomon Tilewa was recruited to serve as Wood-Work Pupil-Teacher in 1972-74 by his alma mater. He played football, cricket and basketball very well and was also an athlete throughout his school career. He met the qualifications to serve in both junior and senior school teams.
Tilewa was a member of the first - five of the Gambia BasketBall Team while at school and they won many laurels. In the twilight of his life, he took on the sport of tennis, he thoroughly enjoyed both playing and watching the sport on Television. In 1971, at the height of a budding amateur acting career, he was given a lead role in a pageant marking 150 Years of Methodism in The Gambia [1821-1971].
This play was written by the prolific Gambian poet and playwright - Mr. Gabriel John Roberts. The rehearsals were directed by a (GHS) Senior Mistress and English Teacher Mrs. Cecilia M. R. Cole, a woman who later became his mother-in-law.
Tilewa played the part of a West Indian minister who hailed from the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, the Reverend Eric St. Claire-Clarke; o n that evening of the pageant, Solomon Tilewa erupted to stardom. He mimicked the character, voice, intonation and gait of the Reverend, impeccably.
Despite their seeming liberal and ecumenical outlook to church life, Mama Eliza and Papa Sam (SD) grounded Solomon Tilewa in the foundations of Christian doctrines at St. Mary's 'King' Church.
At infancy, he was enrolled at Sunday school where Mama Eliza was a teacher. Papa Sam was a superb contralto singer in the choir. Every Tuesday and Thursday evening, he took along Solomon Tilewa to be trained as a soprano singer. This was a failed effort; nonetheless, Solomon Tilewa's interest was not on the hymns but on the ministry of the word and the celebration of rites and rubrics of the church.
He studied intently the high-church Anglican liturgy which is distinctive of St. Mary's. The young man Solomon Tilewa became an active member of the Anglican Young Peoples' Association (AYPA) whose activities were headquartered at the Parish Church of St. Mary's Solomon. Tilewa adopted his classroom friends for substitute biological brothers and sisters.
At the age of 15-years, while just at Form 111, catastrophe struck the family, Mama Liza passed on to eternity. At the end of his two-year contract as a Woodwork Pupil Teacher at the Gambia High School, Solomon applied for work at the Ministry of Agriculture where he was recruited as a Trainee Forest Surveyor and posted to the Forestry Department [1975-77].
He had three work sites, Abuko Nature Reserve, Kabafita Forest Reserve and the Nyambai Forest Reserve. He loved Nyambai Forest the most and frequently narrated about the beauty of the silence of the forests. He considered the Gmelina trees as his living audience; it was at Nyambai that God called him to become a Priest. Having observed and tested him, his mentor, the 5th Bishop of the Diocese of Gambia, The Right Reverend Jean Riga Elisee accepted Solomon Tilewa's offer for the priesthood. He was sent to an ecumenical seminary in Nigeria Trinity Union Theological College, Umuahia in Imo State, from 1977 to 80. Solomon survived the post Biafran War experience and the intense three years of academic and ministerial training.
He earned a Diploma in Theology (Dip.Th), successfully in 1980. He was ordained a Deacon in 1979 and was 'laid-hands' upon again as a Priest in 1980. Upon his return to The Gambia in 1980, The Reverend Father Solomon Tilewa was promptly posted to serve in the rural settlement of Farafenni at the North Bank Division in the Anglican Parish of the African Martyrs of the Anglican Diocese of Gambia. Four months later, he got married and his wife - Priscilla Gladys joined him. Priscilla Gladys was a graduate teacher; together they started a family and served the community from their base at the Anglican Vocational Training Centre, Farafenni. In September 1982, Solomon Tilewa returned to academia, to the University of Durham, UK.
At Durham, he played cricket for sport and studied hard in the library. In 1985, he submitted a thesis titled: The Impact of African Communal Ritual on Modern Christian Missions 1821- 1965 (Durham, 1985) as partial fulfillment for a Bachelor of Arts (B.A. (Hons)) degree in Theology. He graduated with Honours. Ten years after his ordination as Priest, in February 1990, the Reverend Solomon Tilewa Ethelbert Willie Johnson was consecrated and enthroned as the 6th Bishop of his Church.
Archbishop Tilewa led by example in Inter-Faith matters. Throughout the two decades as Head ofMission at the GCC, His Grace routinely cultivated close personal relationships with the Chairman of the Gambia Supreme Islamic Council (GSIC), the Imam Ratib of Banjul and other Muslim leaders.
These proved useful during moments of crises, whenever and wherever threats to traditional Christian-Muslim harmonies were detected in The Gambia; frank dialogue would be initiated to quickly bring justice and peace to any disrupted community. Genuine Inter-Faith relationship has led to him being invited to a number of Muslim religious gatherings (Gamo).
In March 2004,following an invitation from the Inter- Diocesan West Africa Link (IDWAL) in the United Kingdom, Bishop Tilewa delivered a paper which accurately defined the state of Christian -Muslim Relations in the Gambia. Speaking on behalf of the total Christian community, in general, Bishop Tilewa gave testimony that we proclaim the Gospel of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ daily in action and word.
Any compromise in our faith would not bring us closer to our Muslim brothers and sisters, but further away. A people of God tend to lose respect for a weak faith, whether our own or another. We continue to give almighty God all the thanks and praise for the peace we experience in The Gambia.
During the Lambeth Conference e in July, 1998 he delivered an address on "Christian/Muslim relations in the Gambia" in a lecture hall of bishops, their spouses and other guests. Bishop Tilewa's acknowledged wisdom was sought by government on several occasions.
He was invited to serve as a member of the Constitutional Review Commission (CRC) of The Gambia, the body credited with developing the first Draft of the 1996 Constitution of The Gambia. Then, as it traced a renewed path to democracy, the Gambia Government created a noble institution of impartial adjudicators on election matters called the Provisional Independent Electoral Commission (PIEC).
This body was headed by the respected educationist and playwright - Mr. Gabriel John Roberts. Bishop Johnson was requested to become the PIEC's first Vice-Chairman [1996-97]. However, soon after the 1996 Presidential and General Elections, Bishop Tilewa was promoted to the position of Chairman of the now Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) [1997-2000]. Bishop Tilewa was twice elected Chairman of The Association of Non Government Associations (TANGO) [1992-94 & 2006-8] and twice appointed Chairman of the Board of Governors of a huge public parastatals which supervised the award of government contracts and consultancies - The GAMWORKS Agency [1993-94 & 2007-8]. During his terms of office, Bishop Tilewa served both agencies with distinction. As a matter of fact, he was the first Chairman of the Gamworks agency.
Bishop Tilewa was an indefatigable inter-church activist and distinguished himself as the Ecumenist Extraordinaire. His ecumenism transcended race, tribe, sex, denomination and borders. His passion for fulfilling the Jesus Christ's high-priestly prayer "that they may be one” [John 17:11b] knew no bounds. This Anglican of Anglicans in West Africa would attend and share Christian worship at any home or sacred space, often unannounced. He would partner with Christians of all shades, local and international, to prayer, advocacy and mission. He became Chairman of GCC on several occasions (1990-2014 ); was President of the Fellowship of Christian Councils and Churches in West Africa (FECCIWA) once (2003-5); and, up to the time of his death was an elected Member of the General Committee of the All Africa Conference of Churches (AACC) (:wn-18), and an elected Member of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC (2013-2113). He was at ease with primates, prelates and patriarchs discussing frankly and led by God's Spirit.
He was a man of huge stature yet he was very down to earth in his interaction with people. There was never a dull moment with him around. Bishop Tilewa’s relationships cut across all peoples, all classes and sexes. He had time and kind amusing words for everyone who crossed his path.
He was a devoted family man who ensured that there was adequate provision for his family. At each annual synod/conference of the Methodist Church of The Gambia, he thanked the clergy and delegates for their generosity in giving him such a good wife. He was proud of his children, that even on the evening of his death he spoke with joy about the achievements of NJilan, Jeggan and Dado to his tennis mates at Fajara Club.
Priscilla Modupeh (Mummy), Eliza Njilan, Francis Jeggan and Clothilda Dado are eternally grateful to God for having given them this fine specimen of a husband and father for so many years!! May God reward him for all his labours and grant him a place of peace and bliss with Him in heaven!! Well done scholar, erudite speaker, public servant, interfaith promoter, ecumenist extraordinaire, Anglican Primate, endowed composer of prayers, excellent father and devoted husband!!!
Source: Foroyaa Burning Issues
RIP! |
| kobo |
Posted - 24 Feb 2014 : 14:03:41
1.UDP leader pays tribute to late Archbishop
2. Related Bantaba topic Lawyer Darboe Pays Tribute to Bishop Johnson
Monday, February 24, 2014
Ousainou Darboe, the leader of the United Democratic Party (UDP), has paid glowing tribute to “a unique and special Gambian whose activities impacted positively on the lives of all Gambians”.
In a condolence message to the spouse and family of the late Archbishop Solomon Tilewa Johnson, who was buried in Banjul on Friday, Lawyer Darboe said “Gambians, in general, and the political class, in particular, will always remember one of his strongly held views, which is to the effect that hostility amongst political leaders is an impediment to harmonious living and national development”
The full text of Darboe’s statement follows:......
Source: The Point News & more full report
3.Bishop Tilewa Johnson to be laid to rest today
Published on Friday, 21 February 2014 | Written by Ousman Njie
Bishop Solomon Tilewa Ethelbert Willie Johnson, Lord Bishop of The Gambia who met his untimely death on Tuesday 21st January, 2014, at the Medical Research Council will be laid to rest today. Funeral service will take place today at the Bakau Stadium and respected pontiff will finally be laid to rest in premises of Saint Cathedral in Banjul. Condolences will be paid at Marina International School.
Yesterday, mourners and sympathisers with diverse cultures and beliefs, filed passed his corpse to have a glimpse of a man they cherish and admire. Bishops from the Church of the Province of West Africa and a host of dignitaries will be in attendance.
Dr. Johnson was installed and enthroned as the 1st Archbishop of the Internal Province of West Africa in the Church of the Province of West Africa (CPWA).
Dr Tilewa Johnson was at the same occasion enthroned as the Ninth Primate and Metropolitan of the CPWA, on Sunday 18 November 2012 at the Cathedral Church of Saint Mary in Banjul, The Gambia.
The Right Reverend Dr Solomon Tilewa Johnson attended the Wesley Primary School from 1962 to 1966.From 1966 to 1972, he attended Gambia High School.
From 1977 to 1980 he obtained a diploma in Theology at the Trinity Union Theological College, Umuahia, and Imo State, Nigeria. From 1982 to 1985, he obtained a BA (Hons) in Theology at the University of Durham, Durham, the UK, and from 1997 to 2000 he became a graduate of the Theological Foundation of Indiana in USA with a Doctorate degree in Applied Ministries.
Dr. Tilewa Johnson was a Deacon from 1979 to 1980, a Priest from 1980 to 1990, and has been a Diocesan Bishop from 1990 to 2014.
He also had a wide Ecumenical experience working and serving many institutions and national committees, in addition to key positions held in the Anglican Communion. Dr. Tilewa’s parents are Samuel and Eliza Johnson on 27 February 1954, Dr. Tilewa Johnson is husband to the Revd Mrs. Reverend Priscilla M.G. Johnson with three children, two girls, and a boy.
He rendered on to the people what is theirs by servicing as a deputy to the Chairperson of the Provisional Independent Commission and later as Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission.
He was also a member of the Constitutional Review Commission and has played a major part in shaping the Republican and Democratic values and Instruments of the Republic.
He presided over the demarcation of Constituency boundaries with such honesty, impartiality and precision that some did not see him to be suitable to carry out such a task.
He has presided over the affairs of Non Governmental Organisations aiming to give social support services to deprived communities and persons.
He also served the cause of the needy as the pioneers of his faith did. He has given blessing and prayers to many gatherings aiming to improve peace on earth and good will towards all men and women.
Source: Foroyaa Burning Issues News
4. THE POINT NEWS EDITORIAL: Published Monday 24, February 2014 Taking the public trust seriously |
| jambo |
Posted - 22 Feb 2014 : 14:03:26
thank you for the update,
may his soul rest in peace, but rise in glory |
| kobo |
Posted - 21 Feb 2014 : 05:36:34
 West African Archbishops and their wives, Westminster Abbey
1. Let The Archbishop Rest Peacefully
On the eve of the interment of Archbishop Solomon Telewa Johnson, we pay our final respects to the man who stood up for the Constitution of The Republic of The Gambia, the rule of law and the dignity of every Gambian, Christians, Muslims, agnostics, and animists alike, and for which the dictatorship tried to extract as many pounds of flesh as it could with little discernible success, except, perhaps, the story you are about to read.
Sidi Sanneh
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Bishop Solomon Telewa Johnson became the first Gambian to be elevated to the level of Archbishop of the Anglican Church of the Province of West Africa in September 2012. He met his untimely death last month on the tennis court from an apparent heart attack while engaging in one of his favorite pastimes.
While the nation and the entire Anglican community around the world were in shock and eulogizing the Archbishop in their own individual ways, the dictatorship in Banjul under the active leadership of Yaya Jammeh, continue to engage in, what can only be described as, disdainful acts, yes, even in death, against the Archbishop, his family, his Church, his countrymen and countrywomen.
The Archbishop ran afoul of the dictatorship for being the only IEC Chairman to take the regime to task for failing to comply with the Local Government Act governing the conduct of elections. He also insisted on on-the-spot counting of ballots and not to have them transported distances from the polling stations, inviting vote tampering, ballot stuffing and other shenanigans......
SOURCE: Sidi Sanneh Blogspot for full report
2. Archbishop Tilewa Johnson burial today
Friday, February 21, 2014
Thousands of Gambians and guests from abroad are expected to gather today at the Independence Stadium to pay their last respects to the
late Archbishop Tilewa Johnson who passed away a month ago.
According to information from the Anglican Diocese of Gambia and the Church of the Province of West Africa, today’s ceremony will start at 11am with the viewing of the corpse at the Christ Church in Serrekunda.
The funeral and requiem mass will follow at Independence Stadium in Bakau at 3pm, to be followed by internment at Bishop’s Court in Banjul.
Expression of condolences to the family, immediately after internment, will be at Marina International School hall in Bakau New Town.
Rt. Revd Dr Solomon Tilewa Ethelbert Willie Johnson, first Archbishop of the Internal Province of West Africa and the Ninth Primate and Metropolitan of the Church of the Province of West Africa, passed away on Tuesday 21st January 2014 at the Medical Research Council, where he was taken for treatment immediately after he suddenly collapsed when playing tennis with his friends at the Fajara Club....
SOURCE: The Point News for full report
3. A report on ...the funeral of solemnity. By Sidi Sanneh
RIP |
| kobo |
Posted - 14 Feb 2014 : 09:42:34
1.The Rt. Rev Archbishop Dr. Solomon Tilewa Johnson: Some Personal Reflections By K.M. Bayo
Thursday, February 13, 2014
“We are all made in the image of God, and the love of God can be revealed through our own lives.” TheRt. Rev. Dr. S. Tilewa Johnson
(Easter Message 2011 Published in the Daily Observer April 27, 2011).....
Source: The Point News & more full report
2.Archbishop Tilewa Johnson to be buried February 21
Informed sources reaching The Point have it that the late Archbishop Tilewa Johnson will be laid to rest on Friday 21st February 2014.
Sources also informed The Point that funeral arrangements are currently underway with hundreds of dignitaries around the world expected to grace the funeral, which will be held at July 22nd Square in Banjul......
Source: The Point News & more full report
RIP! |
| kobo |
Posted - 01 Feb 2014 : 11:41:50
MORE TRIBUTES, SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY AND VERY INTERESTING TESTIMONIES OF LATE ARCHBISHOP'S INTERFAITH PUBLIC RELATIONS; FROM THESE REPORTS;
1.Banjul Muslim Elders, others pay tribute to Archbishop Tilewa Johnson
In the report above these words are noted from the wife;
"Mother Precilla Johnson, wife of the late Rt. Rev Dr Solomon Tilewa Johnson, said she was indeed humbled with the presence of the various delegations, adding this has gladden her heart that his Muslim brothers are here.
“I am touched beyond words”, she said, adding that her late husband recently attended two ‘gamos’ (i.e a muslim vigil of prayers & preaching on life of holy prophet Muhammad MPBUH) to which he was invited, and even spent the night there.
“He always carried the message that Christians and Muslims are brothers and sisters anywhere he went to in the world,” she pointed stated".....
Source: The Point News & more full report
2.Words of tribute to RT REV Solomon T. Johnson Author: Charles Sarr Thomas stated;
"The Rt. Reverend Tilewa believed in the ONENESS of mankind before their creator, a belief that permeated as well as showed through all his public prayers and statements.
Taking over from Muslim prayer he would say: “And so we continue in prayer”. This shows that the Rt. Reverend saw no division between what was prayed before him and what he himself was going to pray. It signaled continuity in and towards the approach to the ONE God: the God of Israel, the God of Christianity, the God of Islam.
It is that oneness that has always underpinned his messages and relationships be they official or personal, religious or secular".....
Source: The Point News & more full report
RIP! |
| jambo |
Posted - 31 Jan 2014 : 23:40:00
I believe the funeral is on the 2nd of February, my thoughts are with his family and the Anglican church in Gambia.
peace be with him
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| kobo |
Posted - 28 Jan 2014 : 20:45:36
IN DEED THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE HE WAS A VERY GOOD MAN AND WITH MORE TRIBUTES!
1.The Late Bishop Solomon Tilewa Johnson Exclusive By Yero Jallow
At last, a warm and fitting tribute was accorded to the late Gambian Anglical Bishop, Solomon Tilewa Johnson who died last week in the Gambia. Panelists spend an hour long on Gainako Radio to pay their last tribute to the late Bishop Solomon Tilewa Johnson. Sources close to the Gambian Christian family noted that the late Bishop died of heart attack....
Source: Gainako Online News & more full report
2. Imam Tafsir Gaye eulogizes the late Archbishop Tilewa Johnson
 
‘JAMA TAAGOONA GEM CHA KERRI JAMMA YA JAL NAFA AM JAMMA WAA JU BAAH BU GOON JAMMA DAAN WAH JAMMA, DAAN DOH JAMMA DAAN JEF LANTEH AK NIT NYI CHI JAMMA’
mam Alhagi Muhammed Tafsir Gaye, representative of Khalifa General de Tijan of Tivaoune in The Gambia.
The Right Reverend Dr Solomon Tilewa Johnson: Jama Taagona Gem Cha Kerri Jamma Ja, Yal Nafa Am Jamma
Wa Ju Baah Bu Goon Jamma Daan Wah Jamma, Daan Doh Jamma Daan Jef Lanteh Ak Nit Nyi Chi Jamma
“Peace has given way to the home of peace, may it find peace in eternity.”
“Good man of peace, talk and preach about peace to the whole community”
The Islamic religion preaches that all human beings are from one origin: ‘Adam and Eve’ are where we all come from. That strong bond joins us together. It is stated in the Quran in Sura Nisai V.1 O mankind fear your guardian Lord, who created you from a single person, created out of it. This mate, and from them twain scattered (like seeds) countless men and women – Fear Allah through whom you demand your mutual (rights). And he heedful of the wombs (that bore you): for Allah ever watches over you.
Islam says we share the one and only God who created us all. Stated in Sura Baqara V.163: “And your God is one God, there is no God but the most gracious, most merciful.”...
Source: The Point News & more full report
3. More from The Point Newspaper TANGO pays tribute to the Late Most Rev. Dr. Solomon Tilewa Johnson
4. SERVICE IN WORD AND DEED ARCHBISHOP SOLOMON TILEWA JOHNSON HAS DEPARTED IN BODY
Foroyaa Editorial: Published on Sunday, 26 January 2014
Archbishop Solomon Tilewa Johnson has departed in body, but is still with us in spirit. He united religious stewardship with civil stewardship in a manner that enabled him to serve both God and country in word and deeds.
He rendered to the people what is theirs by servicing as a deputy to the Chairperson of the Provisional Independent Commission and Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission. He was also a member of the Constitutional Review Commission and has played a major part in shaping the Republican and Democratic values and Instruments of the Republic.
He presided over the demarcation of Constituency boundaries with such honesty, impartiality and precision that some did not see him to be suitable to carry out such a task.
Up to this day, his recommendations are gathering dust and would see the light of the day once a genuine constituency boundaries commission is established. He has presided over the affairs of Non Governmental Organisations aiming to give social support services to deprived communities and persons.
He also served the cause of the needy as the pioneers of his faith did. He has given blessing and prayers to gatherings aiming to improve peace on earth and good will towards all men and women.
His heart has always beat in unison with the heart beats of all those who yearn for a more humane, just and caring humanity.
He did not rise to the pedestal of religious stewardship to play prophet or god. He walked humbly among his congregation, neighbourhood and beyond to be his bothers’ and sisters’ keeper. He served with dignity, humility and passion up to the end.
Source: Foroyaa
RIP! |
| kobo |
Posted - 23 Jan 2014 : 14:06:57
1. Gambia mourns death of Archbishop Tilewa Johnson
Thursday, January 23, 2013
The death has been announced late Tuesday evening of one of the most prominent religious scholars in the country.......
Source: Daily Observer News & full report
2. Archbishop Tilewa Johnson passes away
The Rt. Revd Dr Solomon Tilewa Ethelbert Willie Johnson, First Archbishop of the Internal Province of West Africa and the Ninth Primate and Metropolitan of the Church of the Province of West Africa, has passed away.
His fateful death took place on Tuesday night, 21 January 2014 at the Medical Research Council, where he was taken for treatment immediately after he suddenly collapsed when playing tennis with his friends at the Fajara Club in Fajara on Tuesday evening.
According to his elder brother, Rev Victor Clayton-Johnson, who spoke to The Point yesterday, the late Archbishop was well and fine before his passing away.
The Archbishop complained of no ailment that could be associated with his death, he said, adding that all he could say was a “heart failure”.
“He used to go to play tennis at the Fajara Club. With the excitement, he wanted to hit a ball and he just collapsed. They rushed him to the MRC and did all they could to bring him back to normal condition, they could not, and he had his call,” Rev Johnson explained.......
Source: The Point News & full report |
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