If you don’t believe in putting on a mask and going trick or treating for candy, then you won’t be left out this weekend. A concert called, “The Jesus Thing” is well underway in front of the Commercial Center in Belize City. On Thursday concert organizers Robert and Teresa Oliveras stopped by to give us […]
The sixteen-member Heavenlies Gospel Band is having a special concert this Saturday to try and bring people back to the church. Public Relations Officer for the group Ian Mariano says the concert titled, “It Ain’t Easy” emphasizes that the Christian way of life is hard, but it brings great rewards. The Heavenlies are inviting Belizeans […]
Twenty thousand Bibles in Belize City… it’s no miracle but the result of a group of missionaries. The goal of “Project Word” is to give Bibles to anyone who wants one. The books were donated and collected by a religious group known as the “Pathfinders” of Michigan in the United States. Larry Stewart told News […]
Since 1883, the Sisters of Mercy have made Belize part of their worldwide international multicultural congregation. There are currently twenty-four Sisters of Mercy in Belize, eighteen of whom are Belizean. During Mercy Awareness Week, the community put together a heritage room at St. Catherine’s Academy featuring information and a few artifacts spared by the ’31 […]
While the prison’s only engaged couple was making plans for the future, the other inmates were invited to a two-hour concert by the Celebrant Singers of California. Jorge Meliton Auil is the President of the Full Gospel Men Fellowship in Belize, which is facilitating the visit. Jorge Meliton Auil, President, Full Gospel Men Fellowship “The […]
On Saturday, May fifteenth, the Anglican Church of Belize will ordain its first three graduates of a four-year course at the Anglican Theological Institute in Belize City. The candidates are Lynda Carmita Moguel, Constancio Apolnario Perez and Illona Lousie Smiling. The ceremony is historical not only because the graduates who are Belizeans will be the […]
This Saturday the New Beginnings Ministries of Dangriga invites you to their second concert in Belize City. Michael Evans, the band leader for Two Roadz says it will be an intense concert filled with dance routines and drama. Evans says the goal is to show the youths of Belize that there is a solution to […]
Six years ago a group of young Belizean Christians got together and formed the Heavenly Gospel Band. Today, the band, which plays mostly contemporary Caribbean music, has released its first video production. According to Gilbert Gordon, the band’s manager, the video was produced by Deanna’s Production in New York. The song, titled, “I Am A […]
Tomorrow the seventh annual Barefoot Music Festival gets underway at the City Centre. This year’s show is entitled Payday. Public Relations Officer for the D-Revelation band, Paul Flowers tells us more about the grand tour and new compact disc. Paul Flowers, Public Relations Officer, D-Revelation “The Payday tour started from Los Angeles in August. It […]
Earlier this week we reported on the death of Escandar Bedran of Cayo. Yesterday Bedran was laid to rest and the Catholic Bishop of Belize used the occasion of his funeral to reflect on recent political developments and their implications for Belize’s future. He spoke to News Five this afternoon in Belize City. O.P. Martin, […]
The biggest march in Belize over the weekend was not held by the P.U.P., U.D.P. or any other political party. It was organized by the Catholic Church. On Sunday night the annual procession honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe wound its way from Holy Redeemer to St. Martin de Porres in Belize City. It has been […]
They are a band with a message… the kind that has people moving both physically and spiritually. Today News Five’s Arreini Palacio takes a look at the latest from D-Revelation. Paul Flowers, Public Relations Officer, D-Revelation “Payday” is a funny thing, some people look forward to it and honestly some people don’t.” But this is […]
Belize is no stranger to missionaries as they’ve been coming and going to and from these shores for just about as long as their more famous contemporaries, the pirates. But arriving today at the Philip Goldson International Airport was not your usual band of bible toting strangers. These ladies, as their name suggests, are coming […]
Anglican Bishops from throughout the region are meeting in Belize to discuss a number of issues affecting their church and society. Today, as the bishops met for their first day of discussions, we caught up with the Most Reverend Orland Lindsay, Archbishop of the West Indies and the Right Reverend Sylvestre Romero-Palma, the Anglican Bishop […]
While thousands of working men and women had a four day holiday weekend to rest, relax and unwind, those who labor for the Lord were hard at work getting their spiritual batteries recharged. Patrick Jones reports. Pastor Mazie Straker, Church of God “I love the Lord very much and what I would like to see […]
It’s a symbolic ritual that is performed religiously every year by millions of Christians worldwide. And while in Belize Ash Wednesday doesn’t mean a holiday, for many, it’s a holy-day and the start of a solemn celebration. Primary school students from a number of schools around the city took a short break from classes to […]
On Saturday a coalition of Church leaders led a rally and march against the impending arrival of the M.S. Leeward, and its estimated 900 homosexual passengers. Attendance was small and the demonstration went off without incident. It may or may not be a coincidence but this afternoon in Belize City police arrested two local men […]
