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A renowned Pentecostal Man of God, Archbishop Godfred Anyere Tarh, has warned President Paul Biya and his cronies to hold inclusive dialogue with the disenchanted Anglophones to pre-empt a political tsunami that may swept Cameroon into the abyss of a political genocide.
The Archbishop advised the Octogenarian Biya to descend from his political high horse and engage in constructive dialogue with the aggrieved parties himself, without sending his bird of ill-omen to do the job for him to a population that has no regards for them.
“The Head of State must, as a father of this nation, sit down and review all the suggestions that have been given to him about what is happening in the country and hold meaningful dialogue with the wounded parties that are involved. Not the kind of dialogue that he sends out people, but a dialogue where he himself should be able to talk. I don’t see the reason why he should shy away from his responsibilities. I belief strongly that if he comes out and talk, we are all his children, we will listen to him and if there is any disagreement, we iron it on the table of dialogue,” the Man of God stated.
The Archbishop was speaking in the South West Region recently during a conference of Pentecostal Bishops of Cameroon.
He decried the incessant quest for material wealth by some pastors and Government harassment of Pentecostal churches in Cameroon.
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To all the Presbyterial Secretaries
-Presbyterial Treasurers
-Pastors
-Principals
-Managers of Schools
-Head-teachers and
-Christians
Dear Brethren,
A CALL TO FASTING AND PRAYER
Accept post-Pentecost greetings and love from your servant toiling in the vineyard of the LORD at this very critical and trying moment in our journey in faith, in the name of our LORD and Saviour, Jesus the Christ.
We have been living in precarious times for about ten months now in our country. The hardest hit during this period has been the Anglophone community of our country. We have experienced pain, anger, abuses of all forms, slanders, rejection, threats and loss of human beings and property. We are in a state of suffering!
At this particular moment, the atmosphere is pregnant with threats, fear and uncertainty. It is clear that our human attempts to resolve this crisis are proving futile. We seem to have come to our wit’s end and what stands before us now is unpredictable.
Every true parent is pained by the fact that the academic future of their children is doubtful. Every child is thrown into confusion and frustration that s/he is staying at home instead of going to school. These are real feelings and challenges that cannot escape our minds!
In the same light, every true Cameroonian is pained by the fact that the atmosphere in the country is pregnant with uncertainty. Many things are not taking shape and we are worried!
It is time to pause, come out of our humanity, turn to God’s unsearchable light, wisdom, loving Will, transforming power and decisive intervention and guide for strength to forge ahead.
I therefore call on the entire PCC Christian community all over Cameroon and in the Diaspora and other concerned brethren to a week of FASTING AND PRAYER beginning from Monday the 28th of August to Saturday the 2nd of September 2017 on the following two topics:
1. Peaceful and Successful reopening and return to school by teachers, children and parents (Ezra 8:21-23, Joel 2:12-13, Matthew 17:19-21).
2. Divine intervention to end the stalemate and crisis in our country that have paralyzed our country, especially the Anglophone community (1Kings 18:41-46, Lamentations 5, Matthew 26:44).
You can select and use other suitable passages that speak to our situation. One hour should be allocated to this special service each day according to the needs and activities of the local congregation and Christians.
We propose a Thanksgiving Service on Saturday the 2nd of September 2017, celebrating that God has taken over our crisis and there is going to be a divine solution to it. The proceeds of the Thanksgiving Service should be directed to congregational charitable activities.
Remember that, Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labour in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain…Sons (daughters) are a heritage from the LORD, children are a reward from him (Psalm 127).
Remain in His blessed, inspiring and assuring hope that all shall be well because He holds our yesterday, today and tomorrow.
Yours for the Sake of the Faith,
Rt. Rev. Fonki Samuel Forba
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Sudan has instructed christian schools to open on Sundays, reports the BBC, quoting Radio Dabanga.
Radio Dabanga reports that the instruction comes from the country's ministry of education.
Christians would have to take Friday and Saturday as as weekend instead of Saturday and Sunday as is the case with most parts of the world.
Sudan is a dominantly Muslim country.
This move is an attempt to make Christians dance to the rhythm of Muslims.
While Christians consider Sunday as a holy day (when God rested after fishing his job of creating the world), Muslims have Friday as their sacred day.
In most countries in the world, Friday is not considered a day of rest. Muslims are therefore forced to battle with prayers and their jobs.
Sudan split in 2011 after serious unrest. The Muslim-dominated north retains the name Sudan while the Christian-majority south takes the new name South Sudan.
South Sudan, the world's youngest nation, is currently in a civil war.
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Catholic Christians in the Bertoua archdiocese are promising to rain down fire and brimstone via a general strike action announced for the 30th of July 2017. They say their anger can only be fuelled down if the archbishop, Joseph ATANGA is transferred from the east region. In a joint memorandum signed by some church associations, leaders and different groups, the Christians claim the archbishop, Joseph ATANGA has failed in his major duty as the main spiritual leader of the region.
They complain mr ATANGA is at the centre of a huge financial mismanagement and treats his subordinate prelates with so much contempt. Other sources told Cameroon Concord that the man of God is also involved in many sexual abuses. After all, he is said to be at the forefront of the promotion of homosexuality amongst priests. Recently, he is also accused of having covered up a network of paedophile priests in the Roman Catholic church in Cameroon as he refused to hand them over to judicial authorities for the law to take its full course.
The Christians who can not longer bear his actions have resolved to go on a massive strike come July 30th if he is not transferred from the east region. In their memorandum, they have copied the apostolic nuncio to Cameroon, the president of the episcopal conference, the east regional governor and many other local administrative authorities of the region.
This other scandal plaguing the catholic church is coming at a time when the corpse of the bishop of Bafia, Jean Marie Benoit Balla who died mysteriously is still in the mortuary pending burial due to misunderstanding between the church and the state over the cause of the bishop's demise.
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In a communiqué signed on 17 July 2017 by Archbishop Samuel Kleda, the President of the National Episcopal Conference of Cameroon, it was revealed that the dead body of the Bafia Bishop had been presented to the authorities of the Catholic Church at the General hospital in Yaounde.
“Today the 17th of July 2017, We, His Excellency Samuel Kleda Archbishop of Douala and President of the National Episcopal Conference of Cameroon (CENC), His Excellency Jean Mbarga the Archbishop of Yaounde, His Excellency Kome Abraham the Bishop of Bafang and the Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Bafia, proceeded for the identification of the corpse of Bishop Jean Marie Benoit Bala, at the Yaounde General hospital.
His remains were brought to our disposal, so that we could start organising the funeral which is scheduled to take place on Wednesday 02 and Thursday 03 August 2017 at Bafia according to a program which will still be communicated to the public.
Afterwards, the National Episcopal Conference of Cameroon will now forward a case against X for the assassination of His Lordship Jean Marie Benoit Bala.
This document will be sent to a college of lawyers who will represent us henceforth in the search for the truth.
Let us stay united in this pain as we pray for the eternal repose of the soul of Bishop Benoit.” That is the content of the Communiqué that His Excellency Samuel Kleda signed.
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A 56-year-old United States-based Nigerian pastor has been jailed 15 years for raping two teenage girls who were part of his congregation.
Aside serving jail time, Reuben Chizor, of the Hope Restoration Ministries Worldwide Inc. Will also have 10 years of post release supervision.
According to the District Attorney of Queens County, Richard A. Brown, Chizor raped both girls in the basement of his church which also served as his residence.
‘‘The sexual abuse began with the 14-year-old victim in July 2011 and continued with one or both of the girls through May of 2013,’‘ a statement from the Attorney’s office read.
He raped the 14-year-old on July 27, 2011 before doing same to her 12-year-old sister on August 22 later that year. The girls finally confided in each other over the rape in 2015 following which police was notified.
District Attorney Brown said, “The defendant took advantage of his position as a man of the cloth and the trust placed in him by his followers to satisfy his depraved desires.
‘‘Through manipulation and conniving control, he sexually abused his two young victims for nearly two years. What the defendant forced his victims to endure was horrendous and as punishment he now will be spending a lengthy term behind bars.”
After a week-long trial in June this year, a jury found Chizor guilty of one count each of first- and second-degree rape and first-degree sexual abuse and two counts of endangering the welfare of a child.
In April this year, another Nigerian pastor wanted for alleged sexual assault and human trafficking of young women from his church was arrested by South African police when he arrived in the country.
The 58-year-old Durban televangelist Pastor Timothy Omotoso of the Jesus Dominion International was picked up by armed policemen at the Port Elizabeth Airport toilet minutes after his plane landed from Durban.
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