Encouragement!!!
St. Barnabas Catholic Church began as a neighbourhood community meeting group where Catholics of Haatso and Agogba met to share the word of God under the then parish priest of Queen of Peace Parish, Rev. Fr. Koos Janssen SMA. First Mass Later with the growth in number of members attending the meeting the idea of establishing a Church become a clarion call. […]
To everyone who visits St Barnabas’ Parish website, I say: You are most welcome!Soyez les bienvenus! Our Lord Jesus Christ did not only announce his divine presence in the world by just being; but he welcomed, fed, taught, and healed all who came to him. Similarly, this website is not only announcing the existence of […]
St. Barnabas was an important early Christian missionary in the New Testament and one of the Apostolic Fathers. General Info Barnabas was a hellenized Jew who joined the Jerusalem church soon after Christ’s crucifixion. He sold his property, and gave the proceeds to the community (Acts 4:36–37). He was one of the Cypriots who founded (Acts 11:19–20) the church in Antioch, where he preached. After he […]
Born in 290 in Phrygia, Asia, Pancras, son of wealthy Roman Cleonius, lost his mother at nine. Cleonius, grieving, soon passed away, leaving the ten-year-old under the care of his uncle Dionysius. To fulfill a promise to his late brother, Dionysius took him to Rome in 300, amidst the rule of Emperor Diocletian and the […]
