Day: 30 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…