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The 23-year-old, who plays for Manchester City, posted a picture of himself training with his England team-mates at St George’s Park, with a tattoo of an assault rifle on his right calf clearly visible.

Pastor Pastor Peter Nembhard who leads ARC church in London and has led many anti-violence campaigns has expressed disappointment with the footballer.

Speaking on Premier’s News Hour, he said: “It’s irresponsible particularly in the present climate with the lives that have been taken this year through gun and knife crime.”

Sterling, who will compete at the World Cup in Russia this summer has alluded to the tattoo having a “deeper meaning”.

In a post on Instagram, he said: “When I was 2 my father died from being gunned down to death I made a promise to myself I would never touch a gun in my life time, I shoot with my right foot so it has a deeper meaning N still unfinished.”

Pastor Nembhard is still hopeful something good can come out of this.

“It’s his body and he can do whatever he wants but it’s the message he sends out,” he said. “But if he says it’s not finished – maybe he’ll complete it by saying ‘no to guns’ and that would be a very good message.”

Sterling has received lots of criticism.

Lucy Cope, who founded Mothers Against Guns after her son Damian was shot dead outside a club in central London in July 2002, said the ink was “totally unacceptable” and called…

Officials have given a sneak peek at the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries, which sits more than 16 metres (52ft) above the abbey’s floor and will display 300 treasures from the abbey’s collection.

Visitors will reach the gallery, which opens on June 11, through a new tower housing a staircase and lift.

It is the first major addition to the abbey church since 1745 and is part of a £22.9 million, privately funded development project aimed at giving a more generous welcome to the two million visitors and worshippers who go to the abbey annually.

The Very Rev Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster, said: “We look forward to welcoming visitors to the galleries.

The view looking down to the Great West door from the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries at Westminster Abbey, London.

“The views are breathtaking. The space astonishing. The displays fascinating.

“The visitor will gain far greater insight into the life and history of the abbey than ever before.

“The fulfilment of this vision is a shared achievement, with so many people involved. We are profoundly grateful.”

Replicas of (left to right) St Edwards Crown, Orb with Cross and Imperial State Crown during the preview for the opening of Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries at Westminster Abbey

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Speaking at the National Christian Centre’s church service on Sunday, Osinbajo – who is also a Pastor in the Redeem Christian Church of God – used verses from the Bible in his speech.

He said: “So I say to you brethren in Christ and fellow country men and women, let us go forward, do not look back, the armies of the enemy that you see today threatening to kill and maim…the claws of poverty and injustice you shall see again no more forever, the Lord will fight for you and you shall hold your peace.

“There have been times when the journey is somewhat tough, difficult and fearful; we look behind us and see the armies of the past… the armies of division, which led to a civil war where millions died, the armies of religious strife that refuse to leave us, the armies of corruption and graft, those who want us to remain in the captivity of ethnic and religious conflicts.

“Ahead of us, we see the Red Sea, bloody conflicts and the doomsayers saying that the future will be worse than the past!”

His words of encouragement came following a mass wave of Christians being killed by radical Muslim Fulani herdsmen. Last month, parish priests Fr Joseph Gor and Father Felix Tyolaha died in an attack by around 30 militia men.

President Muhammadu Buhari and Osinbajo have made assurance that the government will put a stop to the escalating violence in the West African nation,…