LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On monday, the police had arrested a 21-year-old man who allegedly set three churches ablaze in Kasokoso Kira Municipality in Wakiso District, Uganda, because they preach prosperity gospel and yet have failed to get him out of poverty. In reference to a ce statement issued shortly after his arrest, the suspect John…
LAGOS JANUART 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The President and Founder, Living Faith Church (LFC), Bishop David Oyedepo says the church has commenced efforts at planting additional 10,000 new churches across the country in 2020. Oyedepo disclosed this while addressing the church workers forum at the International Headquarters of the church in a live telecast in Ota, Ogun, monitored…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Churches, Islamic clerics and political groups in Nazareth, the largest city in the northern district of Israel, have joined forces against a two-day crusade being planned by Nigerian preacher, TB Joshua, at Mount Precipice. The churches and Islamic leaders want Joshua banned from preaching in Israel and called for the cancellation of…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has advised government at all levels to deliberately formulate policies that will allow her to collaborate with voluntary agencies, especially the Church, in the development of the country. Mr. Obi offered this advice on Saturday when he visited Annunciation Hospital…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cyprian Lwanga, Catholic archbishop of Kampala, has recommended that the Ugandan government deducts 10% from workers’ monthly salary as tithe for the church. According to Citizen Digital, the archbishop said he wanted Uganda to go the Germany route where Germans who are registered as Catholics, Protestants or Jews have a church tax…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governorship candidates contesting in September 22 election in Osun State have intensified their campaigns as some of them stormed some churches with large congregations in a subtle move to solicit votes ahead of the poll. On Sunday morning, a former governor of Osun State, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, who is one of the…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 27-year-old Nigerian man suspected of being a member of Boko Haram and killing people in Nigeria during attacks on schools and a village has been arrested in Germany, the federal prosecutor said on Friday. The man, named as Amaechi Fred O., was detained on Wednesday in Bavaria and a day later…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A church in northern China was demolished this week, the second in less than a month, sparking fears of a wider campaign against Christians as authorities prepare to enforce new laws on religion. Police cordoned off the area around the Golden Lampstand Church church in Linfen, Shanxi province on Sunday before construction…