Some Anambra state clergy have denounced Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s recent prohibition on preaching in public areas, including marketplaces. Remember that on Saturday, the governor said that preaching in public was prohibited and that anyone who disobeyed the state’s order on the subject would be fined N500,000.CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
Since the state’s clerics were causing noise pollution and other annoyances, Soludo had urged them to bring their proselytizing to their churches. However, the state’s clerics responded to the governor’s decision by stating that public preaching is crucial to gaining people to Christ. A few of these clerics saw the state governor’s ban as an infringement on their right to freedom of religion.
Declaring that freedom of religion is guaranteed by the constitution, The governor has only been successful in attacking the body of Christ, according to Osazee Williams, International Secretary of the Ecumenical Synods of Bishops, Archbishops, Apostles, and Senior Clergy in London. He claimed that prohibiting preaching in public would have a detrimental effect on the state’s citizens. Williams added that he doesn’t think the governor is afraid of God because he is a supreme being.
“The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof,” he continued, adding that many people need to hear the word of God while others are in need of salvation. He claimed that some of these people would never attend church, so it would be necessary to bring the word of God to them in public settings. The governor could have simply requested that the volume be lowered, possibly implying that alternative methods could be investigated in place of microphones.
“When they hear the word of God, some people who come to the market to steal, kill, or do other vices alter their ways. It’s an essential instrument for changing lives,” he stated. Additionally, the Most Reverend Isaac Olawuyi, the Archbishop of the Methodist Church of Nigeria in Lagos, believes that the governor’s ban is an assault on Christianity and should be opposed at all costs.
“I don’t see anyone in Nigeria criticizing Christian freedom because we have the freedom to preach the gospel, and it’s a mandate,” he said. Therefore, it is necessary to fight a governor who violates religious fundamental rights in such way. The Archbishop urged preachers to carry out their divinely mandated responsibilities of preaching in public settings, further challenging the governor. “Let the governor go ahead and jail everyone if they decide to go out and conduct crusades and actual evangelism. Let’s wait and see what occurs.He said, “I don’t think the governor meant what he said; perhaps he was just trying to give advice.”CONTINUE FULL READING>>>>>
