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The Founder and General Overseer of Cornerstone Christian Church Incorporated in Agbarho, Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, Bishop Isaac. E. Etidia, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to invest and spend monies recovered from corrupt politicians to save Nigeria from the present economic recession it is grappling with. Etidia said it is the duty of Christian ministers to pray, preach and give godly counsel to Nigerians, adding that, “It is the prayer of real men of God that is saving this country if not, Nigeria would have been in another civil war.” He asked Nigerian leaders to have the fear of God and be faithful to their oath of office as well as desist from converting government’s property, including the treasury, for personal gains. Culled from Dailypost

Pastor Sunday Oluwatobiloba told police his sister is not dead as reported by the media. He claimed that the skeleton found in his living room will soon receive life as his sister who has gone on a spiritual journey in the past 6 years will return this year. This is irritating.

A Pennsylvania pastor faces charges he impregnated a 15-year-old girl from his youth group during a seven-month sexual relationship, according to reports. The wife of Wesley Blackburn, youth pastor at Faith Brethren Bible Church, told the New Paris church’s head pastor he had confessed to the relationship and asked for a divorce, senior pastor Jim Espenshade told WJAC-TV on Wednesday. Espenshade and other church leaders immediately fired Blackburn, a 35-year-old father of five, and alerted police last week. He was charged Oct. 6 on hundreds of counts of statutory sexual assault and indecent assault. “I don’t know this man,” Espenshade, 35, told the TV station. “The man that got arrested, I don’t know him. I was shocked, absolutely shocked. You work with him and you’re there and you’re thinking, ‘How could this happen? How could he do this?’” Blackburn told a state trooper who found him packing his belongings at the church that he started having sex with the girl in March, accor...

Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, yesterday, opened up on how he weathered the storm as leader of the apex Christian body(Christian Association of Nigerian) in the country. He said Christians plotted against him and equally insulted him even when he put his life on the line for them. Oritsejafor said he took over the mantle of leadership at the most trying times in the country. “We came in a period the challenges of the church had reached a point that lots of Christians in Nigeria had been displaced from their home and churches. “Some pastors, particularly, in northern Ni­ geria were closing their churches. Lots of Nigerians had become internally displaced persons in their homes,” he said. He called on Nigerians, particularly the Christian faithful, to stand behind the new president of CAN, Pastor Samson Ayokunle and his team in order to withstand the challenges ahead. “As, we are entering a more challenging period in the history of our nation. Unfortunately, it is als...