Galamsey pollution 'forces' Church of Pentecost to halt river baptism

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  • Dr Mumbi Seraki 4 days ago

    Hello youth of Ghana.........you can take your own life with medicine. For instance 15 tramadol at once........or combine medicine and akpeteshie or weedicide.

  • TRUTH BE TOLD 3 days ago

    Water baptism ended when Jesus came on to the scene and even John the Baptist in Mark 1:8, confirmed that “ I John baptize you with water, but Jesus who comes after him (John) will baptize you with the Holy Spirit . So wat ...
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  • KOFI 3 days ago

    Not literally.

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 3 days ago

    READ YOUR BIBLES!! READ YOUR BIBLES!!!!!!
    I WILL EXPOSE THEM WITH THE BIBLE!!!!
    RIVER BAPTISM???? WHY??
    WHERE WAS PAUL BAPTIZED? PAUL WAS BAPTIZED IN ANANIA’S HOUSE!! ACTS 9:17-18.
    WHERE WERE THE 3,000 PEOPLE WHO BELIEV ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 3 days ago

    FORGET RIVERS AND POOLS AND BAPTIZE IN THE CHURCHES WITH JUST A DROP OF WATER BACKED BY PRAYER!!! AABAH!!!!

  • Yaaaaaa 3 days ago

    Woboa. Omaley. But philip susquently baptised the gentleman who had gone to Jerusalem and was reading the book of Isaiah. Conelius and family were subsequently baptised. Alakpato

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari. 3 days ago

    Read more and research further. Jesus allowed himself to be baptized by John the Baptist. Baptism was there before the birth of Christ. Do you remember that Saul who became Paul was baptized even after the death of Christ and ...
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  • Tsotsoo 3 days ago

    Saul was on his way to Damascus not Emaus.

  • Ray 3 days ago

    Please, Do you read the Bible or you were told so?

  • Hi 3 days ago

    Sorry to say but You are pompously ignorant. Wasn’t baptism part of the apostles doctrine? So why do you say that it ended with Jesus?

  • Juvenal Urbino 2 days ago

    How ignorant! The ordinance of water baptism is and will always be relevant. These are words of Jesus after his resurrection:

    "18Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to ...
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  • Truth Table 4 days ago

    Say yes to Jesus because:
    1. He has destroyed death;
    2. He has brought life and immortality to light. ., ..,,,,

  • Agya Yaw 4 days ago

    Master anything apart from Water baptism is not Biblical water baptism is what the Savior went through please don't through dust into our eyes on the name of galamsay

  • We Are Tired 4 days ago

    Boss, they're still using water. The report said they are now using artificial pools instead of rivers.

  • Nana 4 days ago

    Telling Ghanaians that you've stopped using our rivers & streams for Baptisms is an admission of failure on the part of leaders of COP. Desmond Tutu physically fought leaders of apartheid not thru prayers.

  • Thief of Staff - Akosua Frema 4 days ago

    Church members, especially the big members who make big offerings and are revered by the church authorities, are disguised farmers and big time galamseyers. Liars and hypocrites who many times try to dodge the truth.

  • Zugu. Of zabzugu / TataleN/R 4 days ago

    Pastor why river baptism in the first place. Every river is a deity so why can’t you carry out baptism in the chapel with water in jug or a cup. Try to look out of the picture of the Densu river deity and will know what wat ...
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  • Pelicles. 4 days ago

    A country with 30 million humans destroying the very thing that sustain their livelihood on the planet. Any human who destroys rivers etc, should be annihilated.

    Growing up as youth, none of us engaged in galamsey but we l ...
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  • Nana Asante 3 days ago

    Please ooo! Was chairman not among the Revs who prayed for these rivers and prayed for galamsey?
    May the Good Lord have mercy
    The Methodist lady is right

  • Yao 3 days ago

    Nana Asante, what you have posted makes no sense!! Come again!

  • Oklemekuku 2 days ago

    It makes sense, because it was so embarasing to see the Chairman and other clergy men praying and speaking tongues at a galamsey site, instead of calling out the then government.

  • Oklemekuku 2 days ago

    Yes, he was part of that group of the clergy that went to pray and speak tongues at that galamsey site, instead of calling out government to stop the carnage. That was so embarasing.

  • OZYMANDIAS 3 days ago

    Now the COP understands why the Catholics, Anglicans, Methodists, and other authentic Christian organisations prefer church font baptism. Galamsey can only be fought by real action, not through fake prayers. Is this an admiss ...
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  • Moshe 3 days ago

    The young shall grow. They will grow and learn, and they will learn to grow. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah!

  • Hama 3 days ago

    They demonized a lot of the teachings and doctrines from the orthodox churches and now look, they have practically copied almost all of them , including using Methodist Hymns when they have banned other churches from using th ...
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  • Jack Sparrow 3 days ago

    asante look their God nd local god are nothing they sit there for humans destroy where they sit nd where we go nd pour libations without taking any action nd want me to believe them? aiyaya tweaa kai

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  • Efo 3 days ago

    Where’s sycophant BishopbAgin Asare??

  • No galamsey money 3 days ago

    We don’t need galamsay money to run the church. Infact any employer or business owner sending the church money for any reason, must first pay his/ her employees a living wage. We don’t need hypocrites in the church. Pleas ...
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  • Osonoba 3 days ago

    The Church of Pentecost and other Pentecostal churches were preaching that any baptism apart from the one done in rivers are not true baptism. Now that they are doing indoor baptism, what are going to say?

  • Yao 3 days ago

    Osonoba, Church of Pentecost preaches baptism by immersion not just river baptism. Immersion can be done in a pool. In lot of places in North America, Church of Pentecost performs baptism in pools. Some branches have baptis ...
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  • Fire 3 days ago

    Y didn't say these during the previous gov't , buh now and moreover baptizing can still go on in volta region bcoz no galamsey in that region, unless the various regions where is polluting waters

  • Oklemekuku 2 days ago

    well said, they lost their voices then

  • A Ghanaian. 3 days ago

    BAPTISM IS ABOUT CHANGE OF ❤️ HEART.

  • Kof 3 days ago

    There is no where in the bible that mandates river baptism. It is the false christians who force river baptism on members. Water baptism could be from a cup, a bath tub, swimming pool or anything symbolically representing bap ...
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  • Vincent 3 days ago

    Water baptist ended long ago.
    It's now swimming exercise.
    Read your Bible well chairman.
    We are now in the era of holy spirit baptist.

  • K. Kusi 3 days ago

    Kwasia like that. You keep taking collection and tithe from these galamseyers and even make some of them your church elders because of their money. What do you expect? When was the last time you and your pastors ever said in ...
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  • koalo 3 days ago

    Gyemiiii fuo! You let people bathing and urinating in rivers polluting them. Where dey your hygiene? Nonsense

  • Nana Yaw 3 days ago

    Galamsey DID NOT stop after you guys went and spoke tongues and “prayed “ ??
    Give us a break!!!
    This is no news because in abrokyire, no rivers are used for baptism in so many towns! Swimming pools etc are commonly used ...
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  • Zobrazo 3 days ago

    Church of Pentecost changing so fast.very soon there will be no difference between the street/disco and Church of Pentecost.

  • Pentecost is cult 3 days ago

    Good, Pentecost church is full of cultists anyway, nothing is pure in the Pentecost church anymore.

  • Pupa 3 days ago

    Yes chairman Nyamekye.

  • Tsotsoo 3 days ago

    We should all join forces to fight galamsey. We are all involved in building our motherland. Churches should continue to pray for God's intervention. They should educate their members especially in the rural areas to educat ...
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  • Tsotsoo 3 days ago

    They should also use some of their monetary support from overseas to support the government in the galamsey fight.

  • Nana K 2 days ago

    I guess no Church of Pentecost member is involved in galamsey.