Sinach and Christafari perform in Holy Week concerts

By William Ysaguirre (Freelance Writer)

BELIZE CITY, Wed. Apr. 1, 2026

   The Belize City Council had budgeted close to $236,000 for its second Holy Week Revival Concert series, being held under the theme: “Reflect, Revive, Renew,” which features international Gospel reggae band Christafari, and renowned Nigerian singer Sinach, who returns for a repeat performance at the Digi Park in Belize City on Wednesday night, April 1.

   Mayor Bernard Wagner introduced Sinach and the Christafari band at a press conference on Tuesday morning, March 31. He touted the concert as promoting “family values, spirituality of course, grace and understanding; and it’s about community, community enrichment.” The City Council will foot $136,000 of the costs, with partner businesses helping to pay $100,000 of the bill.

   “It’s great to be back! I remember the first time we came, it was amazing. … It was beautiful to just see the Lord touch many people; it was beautiful,” Sinach recalled. “It’s a time for us to come together and celebrate and worship and celebrate the death and resurrection of the Savior,” commented members of the Christafari band, who delighted music fans with their reggae renditions of gospel music on Tuesday night. Faithful fans are looking forward to another great and inspiring Sinach performance on Wednesday night.

   Belize has a largely Christian population, whether Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian or Jehovah’s Witnesses, and Mayor Wagner said all denominations are welcome to the event “that really captures the spirit of the season.”

   It was not quite like the Church bram inside the Holy Redeemer Cathedral of the 1970’s, featuring Belizean music virtuoso Franky Reneau’s Mass in Blues, with Valerie Lovell, Louis Peyrefitte, Ben McKoy and the Professionals band; but Senator Louis Wade, who was born in 1973, said that the first Holy Week Concert at Digi Park back in 2023 had been the largest Christian event he’d ever seen in Belize’s history.    Pastor Wade harked back to our Constitution, which declares that this nation shall be established upon principles that acknowledge the supremacy of God. “The Belize City Council is strengthening the foundation,” he said.