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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.”