Obadare May Be Buried In $25,000 Casket

BARRING last-minute changes in plan, the body of late Timothy Obadare, a renowned Evangelist and founder of the World Soul Winning Evangelical Mission, WOSEM, who died on March 21, 2013 after battling an undisclosed ailment, will be interred in a $25,000 gold casket.

Obadare, the blind Akure-based evangelist, the second officially recognized Apostle by the Christ Apostolic Church, CAC, after Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola noted for his monthly Koseunti Crusade, until his death devoted most of his time teaching the Bible and winning souls for the Kingdom of God. He was in ministry for about six decades, eagerly committed to soul winning.

The son of the late evangelist and the general overseer of WOSEM in America and Europe, Pastor Paul Obadare said the WOSEM founder will be buried in his hometown, Ilesha, Osun State on August 17, 2013 in a 14-karat gold plated coffin like the one used for the burial late popstar, Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston.

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Pope Francis gains over 4.4m Twitter followers in 8 days

On December 12, 2012, on the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the former leader of the Catholic’s 1.2 billion faithful, Pope Benedict XVI, became the first Pope to join Twitter.

Using the handle, @Pontifex, his first tweet read, “Dear friends, I am pleased to get in touch with you through Twitter. Thank you for your generous response. I bless all of you from my heart.”

On February 28, the day Pope Benedict stepped aside from the Papacy, he tweeted, “Thank you for your love and support. May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives.”

After his resignation, the Vatican suspended the account. However, shortly after Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio (now Pope Francis 1) delivered his first address on March 13, the Vatican tweeted a message for the first time since Pope Benedict’s resignation: “HABEMUS PAPAM FRANCISCUM” (We have Pope Francis).

Paving the way for Pope Francis to make use of the account, the Vatican deleted all of the tweets sent from @Pontifex account and Pope Francis took control of it. On March 17, Pope Francis posted his first tweet.

He stated, “Dear friends, I thank you from my heart and I ask you to continue to pray for me.  The post was retweeted 36,940 times. His third tweet, sent on the day of his installation, read “True power is service. The Pope must serve all people, especially the poor, the weak, the vulnerable.” It was retweeted  24,124 times.

Though Argentine-born Pope Francis 1 has tweeted only five times, his nine Twitter accounts have gained 4, 449,349 followers worldwide.

While @Pontifex is the Pope’s primary account in English, which currently has 2,176,970  followership, he also communes with the Catholic world with eight other Twitter accounts in eight major languages that offer translations of his tweets.

The eight other accounts are @Pontifex_in (Latin) with 53,238 followers; @Pontifex_de (German) with 81,640 followers; @Pontifex_es (Spanish) with 1,292,028 folowers; @Pontifex_pt (Portuguese) 148,072 followers.

Others are @Pontifex_pl (Polish) with 61,412 followers; @Pontifex_it (Italian) with 493,412 followers; @Pontifex_fr (French) with 100,593 followers and @Pontifex_ar (Arabic) with 41984 followers.

With the way the nine multilingual accounts of Pope Francis is actively pulling in thousands of new followers every day,  Twitter could be the veritable platform the Catholic Church will use to reach more of the world’s population about its beliefs.

Already, Pope Francis’ election is the second biggest Twitter event of all time behind President Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election.