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  • CAN tasked to register, license pastors

    CAN tasked to register, license pastors

    The leadership of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has been urged to urgently begin the registration and licencing of all practicing clerics among its fold across the nation.

    Bishop Seun Adeoye, the General Overseer, Sufficient Grace and Truth Ministries, Rehoboth Arena, said this was to stem the rising cases of fake pastors in the country.

    Adeoye, also the Lead Bishop, Worldwide Anglican Church (WAC), Nigeria, made the plea in a statement on the 70th birthday of Bishop Gideon Folahanmi, one of the Church leaders in the state.

    He said that the registration and licencing of pastors became necessary in view of the rising spate of fake pastors in the country.
    Adeoye decried the social media platforms, which he said, had hindered access and voice to many of the fake pastors, who “emit foul odour and vomit dirt from their bowels in the name of prophesies”.

    According to him, today, we are surrounded by the so-called men and women of God, declaring fake prophesies, spreading unbiblical doctrines, engaging in all manners of immoral behaviour and undertaking all sorts of rituals at the altar.

    “Although, these false pastors are in the minority, they are dangerous to the church and the society.

    “They dupe in the name of God. They cause havocs to the church and so much pains and shame to true Christians. They are worse than bandits.

    “These wolves should be identified, exposed and disgraced. These shafts must be separated from the wheat.

    “They are not called by our Lord to preach the gospel, but they see the church as a means of livelihood to serve the gods of their bellies.

    “Therefore, these bad ones must give way to allow the gospel of Christ to flourish. CAN leaders should embark on urgent cleansing by registering and licencing all genuine men and women of God in its fold.

    “By this, we can easily identify the evil ones and help deliver victims from their wickedness,” he said

    Adeoye, who is also the spokesman, World Bishops’ Council (WBC), Africa, said CAN leaders should be ready to come out boldly to deny anyone engaging in satanic activities.

    “Any of such pastors, whose behaviour was found wanting or inimical to the wellbeing of the Body of Christ should be deregistered.

    “Enough of this nonsense in the name of God,” he said.

    Adeoye praised Folahanmi for his service of over 50 years in the vineyard of God, saying that testimonies from people about his life clearly indicated that the 70-year-old cleric had served God with all sincerity.

  • CAN set to tackle sexual perversion, staged miracles, other shameful acts by fake pastors

    Burdened by the shameful activities among some of its members, the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has vowed to amend its Constitution to, among others, check some of the excesses of Christian religious leaders which have generated negative publicity and ridicule to the Church.

    The Christian body made the revelation during its recent National Executive Council, NEC, meeting on October 23, where a decision was reached to set up a 5-man committee to make recommendations on how to tackle the menace of fraudulent pastors who are more concerned about their bellies than the damage they are doing to Christendom.

    Lamenting the activities of 419 pastors, the Council said outlined several toxic behaviors in the pulpit to include sexual perversion, stage-managed miracles, financial recklessness, anger, arrogance, sarcasm, shaming, and passivity, each of which is dangerous and holds the potential to shipwreck both Church and the pastor.

    A source close to CAN NEC lamented: “You know that at the moment neither CAN nor the government has any mechanism of checking this kind of things and the perpetrators.

    “As CAN, at the just concluded NEC of October 23, 2019, a 5-man committee was constituted to make a proposal on how CAN could include in her constitution (which is undergoing amendment) measures that could check proliferation of churches and misbehaviours by some pastors that usually expose the Church negatively,” our source stated.

    The inside source hoped that the recommendation of the 5-man committee drawn from the five blocs that make CAN will help to handle what the National Executive Council termed “end-time wahala.”

    Explaining further, our source maintained that the committee which is expected to turn in its recommendations in four weeks, is to make suggestions for possible inclusion in the amended constitution “ways that can help in monitoring proliferation of churches, false teachings and misbehaviour by pastors.”

    CAN which was established in 1976 is made up of five blocs; the Christian Council of Nigeria, CCN, the Catholic Secretariat of Nigeria, CSN, the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, the aforementioned Organisation of African Instituted Churches, OAIC, and the Evangelical Church Winning All, ECWA.

    It has Women and Youth Wings, a National Executive Council consisting of 105 members (which elects the President).