Tanzania, April 4 -- Dar/Upcountry. Christians across Tanzania observed Good Friday services in various churches, reflecting on the suffering and death of Jesus Christ on the cross, as religious leaders delivered messages of hope, forgiveness and spiritual transformation in daily life.

The services, traditionally marked as a day of sorrow and mourning, also provided an opportunity for church leaders to urge believers to shun acts of oppression, gender-based violence, betrayal and arrogance, which they said continue to harm society.

In Arusha, the chairperson of the Arusha Regional Christian Council (Ukama), Bishop Stanley Hotay of the Anglican Church of Tanzania, Mount Kilimanjaro Diocese, called on Tanzanians to commemorate Good Friday...