Tag: pastor
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Tragic! Pastor arraigned for raping epileptic teen
General Overseer of the Holy Ghost Mission Church, Pastor Peter Alatake, has been arraigned before an Owo Magistrate court for raping a 16-year-old epileptic secondary school student. The victim was said to have been taken to his church for deliverance but Pastor Alatake ended up raping the girl several times, it was said. Pastor Alatake…
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Pastor remanded in prison for denying Coronavirus existence
Controversial pastor, Augustine Yiga, who allegedly denied the existence of the new coronavirus, has been charged and remanded in prison. The Ugandan Police said this on Monday. The prominent cleric is accused by prosecutors of telling his Revival Christian Church on Friday, in comments carried by local television stations, that there is “no coronavirus in…
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Pastor tests positive for Coronavirus
A church community in Northern Virginia in the United States is told to self-quarantine after a pastor tested positive for the coronavirus. The pastor of a Fairfax County church tested positive for the coronavirus, according to statements from the Fairfax County Health Department and the church itself. Crossroads Baptist Church in Bailey’s Crossroads, Virginia, announced…
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Coronavirus: Stay at home, skip church if sick, Pastor warns members
Ahead of Sunday service (today), Andy Stanley, the pastor of North Point Community Church, Buckhead Church, Decatur City Church sent a letter to his congregants on Friday titled “Permission to stay home!” Stanley who made the statement amid growing concerns for the spread of the coronavirus, he’s asking anyone who has traveled to affected countries,…
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Gunmen kidnap Catholic priest, pastor, 20 others
Gunmen have gone on the rampage and abducted a Catholic priest, a pastor, three congregants, four lectures, 16 students and two school gatemen as well as a farmer in Benue, Niger, Edo and Ebonyi states. In Benue State, the gunmen kidnapped Rev. Father David Echioda, the Catholic Priest of Otukpo Diocese in Otukpo Local Government…
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Gunmen kill pastor, 23 others, kidnap 3
Gunmen killed 24 men, including a church pastor, and kidnapped three others on Sunday in Burkina Faso, an official said. It was the latest attack against the church and a religious leader in the increasingly unstable West African nation. Last week 18 people were killed when militants attacked the village of Bani. Two weeks earlier…
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Court returns Ondo pastor to prison over missing child
The founder of the Sotitobire Praising Chapel, Akure, Alfa Babatunde, was not granted bail, on Thursday by the State High Court, sitting in Akure, the state capital. Hundreds of followers and worshippers of the church, who stormed the court premises to witness the court proceedings, and waited for his bail to be granted were disappointed…
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Police arrest pastor over death of 20 members during rush for ‘anointing oil’
The Tanzanian government has arrested Pastor Boniface Mwamposa after twenty people were killed and a dozen others injured in a stampede during a church meeting in the northern Tanzanian city of Moshi. He was arrested in Dar es Salaam, after he flew there to lead a prayer service at another branch of his church. The…
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Pastor accused of selling, anointing women’s pants, bras with his pictures speaks
An Abuja based pastor, J.S. Yusuf, accused of anointing the bras and pants of spinsters with his image, has debunked the trending stories about him as ‘fake news’. The fake report with photoshopped bras and pants, emblazoned with the pastor’s photo, was shared on the popular Nigerian social media platform, Nairaland on Thursday night, ten…