TV preacher bags 8,658 years imprisonment in Turkey
An Istanbul court, on Wednesday, sentenced a Muslim televangelist who surrounded himself with scantily clad women he called “kittens” to 8,658 years in prison in a retrial, local media reported.
Adnan Oktar led television programmes surrounded by women wearing lots of makeup and little clothes as he preached creationism and conservative values.
Last year, the 66-year-old was sentenced to 1,0.5 years for crimes including sexual assault, sexual abuse of minors, fraud and attempted political and military espionage.
But that ruling was overturned by an upper court.
During the retrial, Istanbul high criminal court sentenced Oktar to 8,658 years in prison on several charges including sexual abuse and depriving someone of their liberty, the Anadolu news agency reported.
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church Of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has knocked the Federal Government over its decision to redesign the Naira amidst its diminishing purchasing powers.
Adeboye said this during the church’s November Holy Ghost Service with the theme, ‘Let It Rain’ on Friday night.
He said, “Do you know what is going on in our country? It doesn’t make sense anymore. Our Naira now, it is not even worth the paper it is printed on.
“And while people are hungry, trying to find enough money to buy bread to eat, our bosses are thinking of making the Naira more beautiful.”
The Central Bank Of Nigeria late October announced plans to redesign the N200, N500, and N1,000 banknotes.
Pastor Enoch Adeboye, General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, has stated that God has not yet revealed whether or not there will be elections in the nation in 2023.
With only three months until the general elections, many political parties’ and candidates’ campaigns have gained traction.
The eminent clergyman made this claim on Friday while preaching at the church’s monthly “Holy Ghost Service” event in the church’s camp for those seeking redemption.
Speaking to his audience, Adeboye bemoaned the situation of the country and said he didn’t mean to alarm people, but he did point out that God hasn’t told him whether the general elections in 2023 will take place.
He said, “I have not been told anything about next year’s election by God.”
In the midst of the yet-to-come prophecy from God, Pastor Adeboye further clarified that he is a pastor and not a prophet, insisting that God alone determines what transpires after he prays. He also noted that he prayed for everyone who approached him seeking for prayers.
“My duty is to pray. I pray for anyone who comes to me for prayers. It is left for God to decide what happens.”
Christian Shola, a Nigerian prophet has called on Davido and Chioma who lost their 3 year old child, Ifeanyi Adeleke to not bury the lifeless infant yet.
According Prophet Christian Shola, Ifeanyi is a destiny Child and would be brought back to life if he his taken to Solution Ground on or before 21hrs from when he passed his message.
Taking to his Twitter account, he wrote;
I am Prophet Christian Shola, please don’t bury that boy yet, he is a destiny child. take Ifeanyi Adeleke to Solution Ground on or before 21hrs after this message and see what will happen, God of of solution can never fail (2king5v10). Olórun Christian Shola Agbayé
Ifeanyi died by drowning at Davido’s Banana Island home last night. He was rushed to Evercare Hospital in Lekki where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Davido and Chioma had traveled for a family gathering to Ibadan yesterday and had left Ifeanyi with his minders who can’t give an explanation for how he entered the pool with out being observed and drowned.
South African pastor, Dr. Thomas Mukala of True Worshippers Word Empowerment Ministry, Sandton, Johannesburg has shared his mind on Love and marriage.
According to the Pastor, love on my own isn’t always sufficient to make a wedding or dating work.
The clergyman who’s additionally a a success businessman said this on Sunday, October 23, 2022, and he counseled that the important thing to a long lasting marriage is Divine Knowledge.
In his words ;
“Love on my own does now no longer maintain Marriage/Relationship…Love by myself does now no longer preserve marriage, however divine information does, due to the fact you may nevertheless divorce or cut up with a person you continue to made in love with.
Because of such a lot of different reasons :-Unfaithfulness -Emotional & Physical Abuses -Disrespectful -Evil hearts -Bad manners -Witchcraft -Unequally Yoked….
But if you have divine KNOWLEDGE you could triumph over these kind of and nevertheless maintain your Marriage/Relationship even whilst you don’t sense the affection anymore…
The largest hassle nowadays in maximum couples and relationship are missing the expertise of this group known as marriage. People will spend hundreds of thousands in hiring venues, paying catering, get dressed the modern wedding ceremony gowns.
But spend nothing, no time no prayers no fasting into what makes marriage works. BIBLICAL PRE-MARITAL COUSELLING EMPOWERMENT
When they have got marital problems, they ran to incorrect dealerships “ wounded friends , no position version own circle of relatives members, none Christian marriage Counsellors , sangamas….” Instead of taking this automobile referred to as marriage to the only who made it “ GOD “ and God accepted certified dealership of a success luckily married couples to examine the secrets and techniques and be constant.
You can’t take your costly vehicle Maserati to a Soweto storage beneathneath a tree round the corner baragwana taxi rank and anticipate that Maserati to be constant if now no longer absolutely damaged. This is why maximum marriages are absolutely useless incorrect garages.
Former Big Brother Naija housemate, Rico Swavey, is dead. He died from injuries he sustained in a road accident in Lagos.
His death was announced through his colleagues on their social media pages on Thursday.
Some celebrities and friends have taken to social media to mourn him and pay tributes to his memory.
BBNaija host, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu, shared throwback pictures of a chat with Rico and wrote, “The actual warmest human being. This is truly heartbreaking. Rest in Peace Rico.”
Nigerian singer, Peter Okoye, posted his picture with an heartbreak emoji saying, “R.I.P RICO”
Alex Unusual, who broke the news of his accident on Tuesday wrote, “This was not what we agreed Rico. Rest In Peace #ricoswavey.”
BBNaija season seven housemate, Groovy, recalled the last moment he shared with him saying, “This is so unreal. This was just on Sunday at the winners party. My team had told me Rico was around and I immediately went over to him to say thank you for all the support and love. We lost a Real one. God give your family strength to bare this loss RIP RICO.”
Nollywood actress, Beverly Naya, recalled memories of being on set with him. She said, “Was praying it wouldn’t get to this, RIP Rico. He was literally the sweetest soul, working with him on Tinsel was always such a joy. Always smiling, always joking, always laughing. This is heartbreaking, gone way too soon. Praying for his family and loves ones.
Domino Mbang, a pastor who was disregarded as the area pastor of Living Faith Church (aka Winners’ Chapel) in Palm Street Assembly, Atakpa, Calabar South Local Government Area of Cross River State, has filed a lawsuit to challenge his dismissal.
Mbang dragged the church before the National Industrial Court in Calabar, seeking N350m in damages.
The cleric, who claims to be a graduate of mathematics and statistics, University of Calabar, alleged persecution from some persons in the church.
In suit No: NICN/CA/25/2022 between Mbang as claimant and the presiding bishop of Living Faith Church Worldwide Incorporated, Bishop David Oyedepo, Pastor Adebisi Aboluwade and two other defendants, the applicant said he went to court to seek redress and to enable the authorities of the church to know how he was treated.
He said, “I was a member of the church for over a decade before training to become a pastor. At least, I have spent more than two decades in the ministry, that alone makes me a son to our general overseer, Bishop David Oyedepo.”
Mbang, who claimed to be an area pastor with 16 branches of the church in Calabar South under his auspices, stated that he was unlawfully sacked by a cabal made up of Pastor Tamunotoye Chukunda and the state pastor Adeolu Adewumi.
“According to the church Operational Mandate, before a pastor is sacked, he would first be queried with a letter and made to appear before a disciplinary committee to answer pertinent questions and thereafter be issued with three warnings before he can be issued a termination of appointment letter. In my case, nothing of such happened.
“Apart from the query that was issued, what followed immediately was a sacked letter without availing me the opportunity to appear before any disciplinary panel. The cabals headed by Pastor Adeolu and Pastor Chukunda connived and kicked out without following due process.
“The Mandate Book serves like a constitution of the organization, unfortunately it was never followed, probably because they didn’t like my face.
“Both of them cannot claim to be more of Bishop Oyedepo’s God sons than myself, we are all his children in the lord. No query letter was served to me. The only letter given to me by the cabals was a sacked letter and for a year now my salary has been stopped.
“As I speak to you, I can’t even pay my children school fees nor pay my rent, or afford food, clothing and medicine for my kids,” Mbang lamented.
However, an official of the church denied all the allegations.
“A query was served to him because of the way he was misbehaving. We are a responsible organisation, we couldn’t have sacked a man of God in the manner which he claimed,” the official told Leadership newspaper.
“I think it’s an offence to the Lord, it’s an offence to say give $1,000. I think it’s an offence to the Holy Spirit to place a price on the Gospel.”
“I’m done with it. I will never again ask you to give $1,000 or whatever amount, because I think the Holy Ghost is just fed up with it.”
“What was troubling is the mentioning of amounts connected to some blessing that should come back just because you gave.”
“It just got out of hand; give a thousand to get whatever, a hundredfold. I, myself, said [those things] and my heart was saying different.”
“What if that hundredfold never came back? What does that do to their faith? What does it do to his future and her future? And then, if it doesn’t come, that life is damaged,”
“I’ve had people come to me and say, ‘please, don’t say it again, it’s not working in my life.””
“Sometimes you dismiss it, other times you just don’t know what to say or do. But, it has damaged a lot of people.”
“How long do I have on this earth? What am I going to do in the next twenty years? That is for me to decide.”
“I want to make sure that the next 15-20 years of my life, that my message is the cross. The real call on my life.”
“I want to be known for that. I don’t want to be known as the prosperity teacher.”
“Prosperity is one thing in the Bible, there’s a whole lot more in the Word of God than prosperity but it’s become a major issue now because of the gimmickry involved in it. That needs to stop.”
“Protests have broken out at the funeral of a female who died after being arrested by Iran’s morality police.
Mahsa Amini, 22, died on Friday, days after eyewitnesses said she was beaten in a police van in Tehran – allegations denied by police.
Some women at the ceremony reportedly removed their headscarves in protest at the compulsory wearing of hijabs.
Mourners chanted “loss of life to the dictator”, with videos showing police later firing on a crowd.
The funeral took place in Ms Amini’s hometown, Saqez, in the western province of Kurdistan.
According to videos posted on social media, locals gathered very early in the morning to prevent Iranian safety forces speeding via the burial in secret to keep away from protests.
Reports suggested that a few angry protesters marched towards the local governor’s office to protest about the death. According to videos received, the security forces opened fire on protesters.
There were also reports of injuries and arrests. In videos published on Twitter, security forces can be seen guarding the governor’s office and arresting protesters trying to get close to the building.
A picture of Ms Amini’s gravestone was published on social media. It reads: “You didn’t die. Your name will be a code [rallying call].”
Ms Amini was arrested on Tuesday by the morality police for allegedly not complying with the strict dress code on head coverings.
According to eyewitnesses, she was beaten while inside a police van and slipped into a coma later.
Iranian police denied the allegations, saying she had “suffered a sudden heart failure”.
Ebrahim Raisi, Iran’s hardline president, has asked the ministry of the interior to launch an investigation into the death.
Kasra Hospital in Northern Tehran said in a statement that Ms Amini was admitted on 13 September showing “no vital signs”.
The statement was later removed from the hospital’s social media after hardline social media accounts accused hospital staff of being “anti-regime agents”. “
“Stop Forcing Ladies To Wear Compulsory Head Coverings
The General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church, Pastor W.F Kumuyi, has told ushers in his church to stop making the wearing of head coverings by ladies in his church a compulsion because too much wearing of such causes heat and odour.
Kumuyi made this known in a sermon shared on the Facebook page of his church, the Ekiti branch.
His words, “Somebody is coming to our church for the first time. And she happens to be a female not covering her head. We ask the person to cover her head before coming in. We don’t know whether the person does not even know God. We confront her out there before she even enters the church. We don’t know if she does not know how to pray or prophesy. But we impose rules on her.
“If I were the person, I would marvel what kind of church is this? If they treat me like a primary school girl, that will be my last time coming to the church.”
The clergyman stated that because of persistent covering, there will be “heat in the hair and it will emit odour,”
He went on to lament that some women have stopped making themselves presentable to their husbands simply because they are now married.
Kumuyi said, “There are some women who are not attractive to their husbands. Some believe since they are married they are no longer obligated to look good before their husband. There are single sisters that are not presentable.
“If I don’t tell you maybe nobody will tell you. There are some wives who dress shabbily and are no longer attractive to the man. There are some single sisters that are not presentable. Anybody who is looking for the will of God may not be attracted to them.
The Bible says every woman that pray or prophesies. The reason why you are covering is either you are praying or prophesying.”
Peak News 
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