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Covid-19 lockdown: Catholic church gives out foodstuff to parishioners in Port Harcourt (photos)
Due to the coronavirus pandemic ravaging the world and killing thousands of people, President Muhammadu Buhari announced that there be a lockdown as a means to combat the virus.
In other to ensure that people stay at home, some pastors and celebrities have helped support them with relief packages so that they don’t go hungry.
A Mater Mesericodia in Port-Harcourt(a Catholic Church) is giving out yams, rice, tin tomatoes, indomie, etc to parishioners to support them during this lock-down.
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Some Twitter users have reacted to this kind gesture by the catholic church;
See their reactions below:
This is exactly what every good government of each state should be doing
— Chef FIK (@Iam_FIK) April 7, 2020
I think @followlasg should share stuff like this, it will stop all the chaos we are seeing online if people come in one by one pick one and go out, will take longer but the pros are better
— Inem (@inem_1) April 7, 2020
Someone should send this pictures to @KokunFoundation and those who worship him, so they see how #SocialDistancingNow can be applied to giving food packages to the needy. Las las it is the person who is alive and healthy that can enjoy a good meal
— Onome metitiri (@Metonome) April 7, 2020
Awesome! You see how people have sense more than the government officials? Here you can even account for the number of people you have attended too plus, this is a total package for a family. God Bless you for for using Gods wisdom?
— Amanda (@amandaergoyoga) April 7, 2020
This is what every church should do, not leave the congregation hungry and expect them to come back after the pandemic and pay tithes and offerings to the church dt abandoned them
— Gena (@atonitay) April 7, 2020
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