Adam Nicholas Ho­sein, a can­di­date for the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment in Ca­roni Cen­tral, has is­sued a for­mal apol­o­gy to the Parish of St. Philip and St. James RC Church in Ch­agua­nas af­ter par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Church’s Good Fri­day Pro­ces­sion with­out pri­or ap­proval, and sub­se­quent­ly shar­ing footage of the event as part of his po­lit­i­cal cam­paign.

In a let­ter dat­ed April 19, 2025, ad­dressed to Fa­ther Steve Ran­some, Ho­sein ex­pressed his “heart­felt apolo­gies” to the Church’s lead­er­ship and the wider Catholic and Chris­t­ian com­mu­ni­ty. He ac­knowl­edged that he had par­tic­i­pat­ed in the deeply spir­i­tu­al pro­ces­sion for the first time and was moved by the de­vo­tion and uni­ty he wit­nessed. How­ev­er, he ad­mit­ted to cap­tur­ing and shar­ing footage of the event with­out seek­ing pri­or per­mis­sion.

“I did so with­out seek­ing pri­or per­mis­sion, and for that, I am tru­ly sor­ry,” Ho­sein wrote. “Please know that it was nev­er my in­ten­tion to cause of­fence, to politi­cize the oc­ca­sion, or to im­ply any af­fil­i­a­tion be­tween the Parish Church and the Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment.”

The apol­o­gy fol­lows an in­ci­dent in which Ho­sein at­tend­ed the Good Fri­day Pro­ces­sion with a video­g­ra­ph­er, de­spite be­ing ad­vised against do­ing so by Fr. Ran­some. The Church had been in­formed be­fore­hand that Ho­sein was nei­ther a parish­ioner nor a Catholic and had nev­er pre­vi­ous­ly at­tend­ed the event. Fr. Ran­some had clear­ly stat­ed his pref­er­ence for the pro­ces­sion to re­main apo­lit­i­cal and rev­er­ent.

Footage of Ho­sein at the event was lat­er cir­cu­lat­ed via so­cial me­dia as part of his po­lit­i­cal out­reach, draw­ing con­cern from Church lead­er­ship. The video was brought to Fr. Ran­some’s at­ten­tion on Glo­ri­ous Sat­ur­day, prompt­ing im­me­di­ate out­reach to the can­di­date’s team de­mand­ing the con­tent be re­moved and a pub­lic apol­o­gy be is­sued.

The Church has since con­firmed that the video was re­moved and Ho­sein’s apol­o­gy was re­ceived on East­er Sun­day.

In a state­ment to parish­ioners, St. Philip and St. James RC Church said, “We hope that this in­ci­dent did not dis­tract you, dear Parish­ioner, from the holy cel­e­bra­tion of the East­er week­end. As al­ways, we re­main com­mit­ted to pre­serv­ing the sanc­ti­ty and rev­er­ence of our sa­cred tra­di­tions.”