Month: September 2021

MISSING BABY: APPEAL COURT RESERVES JUDGMENT ON PASTOR’S LIFE SENTENCE

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Nigeria – Source: Premium Times The Court of Appeal in Akure on Monday reserved judgment in an appeal filed by the founder of Sotitobire Praising Chapel, Akure, Babatunde Alfa, against his conviction. Rita Pemu, the presiding judge, after listening to all the arguments in the suit, reserved judgment to a date that would be communicated to all the parties. Mr Alfa and five others were sentenced to life imprisonment by the High Court in Akure in October 2020, over one-year-old Gold Kolawole, who went missing in the church in 2019. The popular…

KING BUILDS CHAPEL FOR CATHOLIC CHILDREN ON 76TH BIRTHDAY

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Ghana – Source: Graphic The Juabenhene, Nana Otuo Siriboe II, has funded and inaugurated a new Sunday school chapel for children of the St Stephen’s Catholic Church at Juaben in the Ashanti Region. It was in fulfilment of a pledge he made a year ago and also in commemoration of his 76th birthday. The provision of the chapel also forms part of lined-up projects to commemorate the chief’s golden jubilee celebration, which will be climaxed in December by a grand durbar, with President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and the Asantehene,…

WOMAN JAILED FOR DEFRAUDING APOSTOLIC CHURCH MEMBERS

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Ghana – Source: Myjoyonline A 38-year-old woman has been convicted to 90 days imprisonment by the Asamakese Circuit Court for defrauding by pretense, contrary to section 131 of the Criminal Offenses Act 29/60. Gifty Arthur, the convict, pleaded guilty and was convicted on her plea when she appeared before the court presided over by His Honour Abubakari Abass Adams. Sergeant Samuel Owusu, the prosecution officer, told the court that the complainants, in this case, are members of the Apostolic Church-Ghana in Asuaba, near Adeiso while the convict is a trader…

DO THESE PASTORS FOLLOW JESUS?

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Ghana – James Quansah Everyone who announces to have been called into any of the five-fold ministry offices indirectly suggests that the Lord Jesus Christ has appointed him. The Bible makes it clear that true ministers of the gospel are called and set in churches to equip the saints for the work of ministry by the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord personally said, “You did not choose me, but I appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide…” (John 15:16). In fact, we…

ESCHEW TRIBALISM, UNITE FOR COMMON GOOD—REV. AGBEKO

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Ghana – Source: Ghanaian Times The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Evangelical Presbyterian (EP) Church Ghana, Rt Rev. Bliss Divine Kofi Agbeko (Rtd), has called on churches to eschew all forms of tribalism but encourage unity among members for the development of the church. Delivering a sermon at the 25th anniversary celebration of the Kekele Congregation of the EP Church at Community 11 in Tema on Sunday, Rt Rev. Agbeko said, the emerging threats of tribalism in churches was not healthy. “In recent times, we have noticed all…

SCOAN: TB JOSHUA’S WIFE, EVELYN GIVES CONDITIONS FOR REOPENING CHURCH

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Nigeria – Source: DailyPost Evelyn Joshua, wife of the late founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, SCOAN, Temitope Balogun Joshua, T.B Joshua, has given conditions for the reopening of the church. Mrs. Evelyn Joshua disclosed that SCOAN would resume church services following the leading of the Holy Spirit and God. DAILY POST learned that she disclosed this during a briefing with some prominent members of the SCOAN. According to her: “We have to first hear from the Lord and be guided by the revelations from the holy spirit…

KOGI ECWA ATTACKED BY GUNMEN

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Nigeria – Source: Leadership Gunmen yesterday attacked the Episcopal Church of West Africa (ECWA) in Okedayo area of Kabba, Kogi State, killing one and abducting three persons. The attack came eight days after gunmen attacked the Federal Medium Correctional Centre in the same area, where five lives were lost and 240 inmates escaped. The ECWA Church is located on Kabba-Okene Expressway whose worshippers are mostly staff members and students of the College of Education Technical, Kabba, Kogi State. The gunmen were said to have killed the chief security officer of…

FOURSQUARE CHURCH UNVEILS BURIAL ACTIVITIES OF FORMER GENERAL OVERSEER, WILSON BADEJO

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Nigeria – Source: Guardian General Overseer of the Foursquare Gospel Church, Rev. Sam Aboyeji, has described his late predecessor, Rev. Wilson Badejo, who led the church from 1999 to 2009, as a ‘hero of faith’ whose leadership expanded the gospel of Jesus Christ in Nigeria and the missionary work of the church. Rev. Aboyeji said this at a media briefing, yesterday, to unveil the funeral activities of the late Badejo in Lagos with the theme: The Badejo Coronation: Chosen. Called. Crowned. He explained that the church would celebrate the life…

CAN SAPPHIRE AWARDS: OBJ, OSINBAJO, OKOROCHA, ONAIYEKAN, ESTHER AJAYI, RECEIVE AWARDS

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Nigeria – Source: Vanguard Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Senator Rochas Okorocha, Emeritus Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, and Mummy Esther Ajayi, were among the prominent Nigerians who received awards at the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Sapphire awards that held in Abuja, weekend. Others, including Governor Nyesom Wike, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie and Chief Arthur Eze also received awards at the event; while the kidnapped Dapchi school, Leah Sharibu, won in the Young Christian Achiever award category. The CAN President, Rev. Samson…

“WATCH ME, BUT LISTEN TO GOD” DENZEL WASHINGTON NARRATES HIS INTERACTION WITH GOD

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USA – Source: Christian Post Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington recently revealed what the Lord has been telling him to do when he prays in this season. Washington was among the featured speakers at “The Better Man Event” hosted by First Baptist Orlando in Florida on Saturday, where he revealed to his spiritual mentor, Pastor A.R. Bernard, the senior pastor of the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn, New York, the message he’s consistently been hearing from God. “At 66, getting ready to be 67, having just buried my mother, I…