Cardinal Turkson next Pope?

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  • Atta K 12 years ago

    If Pope benedict is using his age as an excuse then Pope Appiah Tuckson will be the best option since he is younger than most of them.64 is good to handle the position of a Pope.

  • gyan 12 years ago

    I pray for you Amen.

  • ZAMIA N22 LONDON 12 years ago

    YES YOU CAN... GO TURKSON GO!!

  • Leah 12 years ago

    Servants of God do not retire, they continue serving him until the end.

  • ZAMIA N22 LONDON 12 years ago

    HAHAHAHAHAAA, I SMELL PALM SOUP, PEANUT SOUP, PEPPER SOUP AND COCOYAM FUFU IN THE VATICAN CITY ALREADY, HUH!

  • BabaUS 12 years ago

    Koobe and Dawadawa too

  • NYAME BA 12 years ago

    WHO CARES ABOUT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH? THE CHURCH THAT HARBORS AND PROTECTS CHILD MOLESTORS. THE CHURCH THAT PROTECTS EVIL. HYPOCRITES !!!!

  • IN GOD WE TRUST 12 years ago

    these gay advocates and catholics are trying soo hard to gain grounds in our mother land. who does't know that catholic fathers are gays and the sisters are lesbians? They are all into child molesting and anus chopping. someb ...
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  • NEMESIS, UK 12 years ago

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    The Nigeria Union of Traders Association Ghana (NUTAG) is unhappy with the closure of the shops of some of its members by officials o ...
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  • Kwaku 12 years ago

    Close those businesses and tell them to go back to Nigeria. Who they hell are they to come to Ghana and form association. Do they forget Ghana must go?

  • NEMESIS, UK 12 years ago

    You people (Ghanaians), have started again. Remember you started in the 60s' with your Evil Busia ACO order, and the brutal CONSEQUENCES that you people suffered thereafter. Bring it on, but when Nigerians retarliate, no own ...
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  • NEMESIS UK, I AM A STUPID NIGERIAN 12 years ago

    BOKO HARAN IS BEHIND MY FAMILY HOUSE , I HAVE TO RUN TO GHANA! OUR POTICIANS KILLED YAR'ADUA, WE KILLED ABIOLA, BABANGIDA KILLED HIS BEST FRIEND, ABACHA DIED ON TOP OF INDIAN GIRL, I DONT EVEN KNOW WHICH TRIBE IN NAIJA I COME ...
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  • me 12 years ago

    What left field did this come from. Man you need to get off the Bottle or stop the drugs. You not making any sence what so ever.

  • NEMESIS, UK 12 years ago

    DON'T MIND HIM, HE'S A DISGRUNTLED AND FRUSTRATED SELFISH 419 BIAFRAN IBO GUY. WATCH OUT FOR HIM ON THE STREET OF ACCRA.

  • Mama 12 years ago

    The Catholic Church is full of hypocrisy. They're wolves in sheepskin.

  • Akwasi 12 years ago

    FAKE NEWS

  • BigPete 12 years ago

    Man wake up, this is not fake news. Its all over the world. Give your head a shake.

  • Kweku Nsubura 12 years ago

    Just as you are a hypocrite in all you do, from fucking around like crazing yet claiming you are a person of God; like embarking on strike in the name of justice yet you take home salary for not working; like breaking all the ...
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  • John Kpeglo 12 years ago

    He is not retiring as a Priest. His functions are not easy for them because he is geting old by the day! So why this useless comment?

  • AFRICANS ARE APES 12 years ago

    THIS UGLY ANIMAL CAN NEVER BE POPE

  • KOFI NUA 12 years ago

    AFRICANS GAVE BIRTH TO THE WHOLE OF HUMANITY. IF AFRICANS ARE APES THEN ALL HUMANITY ARE APES.

  • AFRICANS ARE APES 12 years ago

    SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU DUMB SON OF A BITCH HAVENT YOU HEARD FOSSILS ARE BEING FOUND ELSEWHERE THAT PREDATE THE AFRICAN FINDS?

    I KNEW YOU AFRICANS ARE DUMB. WHY SHOULD I EVEN EXPECT YOU TO KNOW OF THE CURRENT FINDINGS

  • AFRICANS ARE GREAT 12 years ago

    u are sooooooooooooooo racist. No wonder u white suprmacists can never accept the fact that africans gave birth to humanity , thats why u re digging in graves around the whole world to look for fossils that predate african fi ...
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  • Jill 12 years ago

    Your entire family looks so much like orangutan that when you went to the zoo, they refused to let you out & lock you in a cage.

  • Ogbanje 12 years ago

    A time will come when the Blackman will rule the world. Jah Lives.Those who look mean upon the colour of our skin shall suffer the wrath of God.Amen

  • AFRICANS ARE APES 12 years ago

    OMG YOU SOUND LIKE YOU BRAIN IS UP SOMEWHERE IN YOUR ANUS.

    LOOK AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR AND YOU WILL KNOW AFRICANS LOOK LIKE BABOONS.

    ITS A UNIVERSALLY KNOW FACT

  • KOFI NUA 12 years ago

    IF APES ARE PRETTIER THAN YOU, THEN HOW DO YOU LOOK?

  • Aunty 12 years ago

    Fellow citizens please turn the other cheek & not counterattack to this fool. Some people come on this forum spewing hate, when in actual fact, they themselves are fellow Africans pretending to be something they're not. They ...
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  • shokolobankoshey 12 years ago

    We get too may white monkeys in Africa what about that.

  • Joe 12 years ago

    Then what do you think whites are - Pigs ?

  • OZA 12 years ago

    Human logic has always been very far apart from God's plans. Americans, as we all know never thought in their wildest dream that a "Black" man and woman could ever occupy the white house, let alone do it for the second time! ...
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  • step H 12 years ago

    if africans are Apes and looks ugly....why the ladies are divorcing everyday just to married to the blacks....its better you read and make some researching....before commenting....the time for black to rule America and it wor ...
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  • C.STEPHEN SACKEY 12 years ago

    TO THE WRITER WHO EQUATED AFRICANS AS APES. I CAN'T HELP BUT WONDER HOW SUCH A CHARACTER - AN AFRICAN I BET, CAN STILL LOOK SELF IN THE MIRROR AND WALK THIS EARTH AS A HUMAN BEING.IT'S VERY SAD KNOWING SU ...
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  • AFRICANS ARE APES 12 years ago

    YOUR PRIMAL ASSUMPTION AMUSES ME BUT I COULD EXPECT ANYTHING BETTER FROM A TREE SWINGING MORON.

    I WOULD SHOOT MYSELF IN THE HEAD

  • KOFI NUA 12 years ago

    HMM, YOU ARE LESS THAN AN APE. SO WHAT DOES THAT MAKE YOU? A HOOD-WEARING HATER.

  • Oheneba 12 years ago

    Is the Pope a religious position? Does the scripture allude that God created man in his own image? If you will comment on a religious position then you should not mingle with evolution? Well since Africans are apes then you a ...
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  • NANA YAW ATOBRAH (APPIADU) 12 years ago

    GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AMEN

  • Joe 12 years ago

    You are ignorant of what you are saying. You have no idea how filthy these white people you consider 'superior' are. May the Lord forgive you for calling Africans 'Apes'.

  • The Mask 12 years ago

    How ignorant. If they did your DNA it would show on your mothers side, you came out of Africa. As a white American I would be proud for Ghana to have a Pope. It would elevate your country in the Worlds eyes. Ignore the asshol ...
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  • YAW 12 years ago

    Africans are apes and your mother is a bigger ape.

  • AJ-usa 12 years ago

    dude,u see how cheap ur brain works,calling africans as apes and little did u know that the so callad whites are pigs and also naph.,do ur reseach well.....?

  • Osei Tutu Pambour 12 years ago

    If Africans are apes, then God did not create any humans. He might have created apes in different shapes and colour.

  • BigPete 12 years ago

    Only a fool would talk like that.

  • Odeneho Ababio Alima 12 years ago

    I AM NOT GOOD IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE. BUT IS 'RESIGNATION' A GOOD WORD TO USE AT THIS STAGE IF HIS AGE (FRAIL HEALTH) IS FAILING HIM. MOST OF US - CATHOLIC CONGREGATION ARE NOT GOOD IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE. I REMEMBER AT SCHOOL IN A ...
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  • Mother Ghana 12 years ago

    I live to see if these prejudicial people will give this to a well deserving person with the wrong skin colour(in their view).
    God help us all.

  • KWAME 12 years ago

    This sort of false and hopeless speculations must stop.

  • Haddasah Owusu 12 years ago

    Wow Pope from Ghana.Let it be Lord.

  • Fearless Honesty 12 years ago

    Amen

  • DER-GBAALE 12 years ago

    What is the purpose of this article? Is it to announce the resignation of the Holy Father, or to make some conjectures about the next Pope. In any case the heading is misleading.

  • Nana Kwadwo 12 years ago

    Please, I see nothing wrong with the heading. There is a differnce between a question and a statement. The heading is a question. Thanks.

  • Inquiry 12 years ago

    Mathew 23:9 specifically stated, called no man on earth father, and so why do catholic refers to the pope holy father?

  • Nana Kwadwo 12 years ago

    I at times, ask myself why sinners like us call ourselver Reverends,

  • White Lesbian 12 years ago

    The Holy Bible says that when the world is coming to and end we will see things like a Black Pope.And the Holy book is always right. Even White Gays and White Lesbians will inherite Heaven than the holiest normal black person ...
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  • COMMANDO 12 years ago

    BEND OVER BACKWARDS AND STICK YOUR HEAD UP YOUR ASS, WE WILL STILL NOT RECOGNIZE GAYS AND DYKES LIKE YOU IN GHANA ,LAND OF THE BLACKMAN!! WITH STATEMENTS LIKE THIS I AM NOT SURPRISED YOU CANNOT GET A MAN TO SLEEP WITH YOU.

  • Blacks Rule 12 years ago

    I'm suppose to believe that, from a person who calls him/her self white lesbian?? What an Asshole!...

  • John Kpeglo 12 years ago

    How do you call the man who impregnate your? Mother? May be you are insane!

  • yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss 12 years ago

    hello! is black, no one will vote for him, not in this age and time. lets face it.

  • Fearless Honesty 12 years ago

    What will be will be. We are our own enemies. If Obama had listened to the likes of you he would not have presented himself. Knowing what we are up against requires profound and genuine wishes from all and sundry.

  • GHANA BA 12 years ago

    THIS WILL NOT BE A SURPRISE , FOR GHANAIANS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE FIRST AND THE BEST IN LEADING THE AFRICAN CONTINENT.BE PROUD TO BE A GHANAIAN ,JAH BLESS OUR HOMELAND GHANA.

  • Anas 12 years ago

    Ghana is blessed. Kwame Nkrumah, Kofi Annan, and now Pope .........

  • COMMANDO 12 years ago

    Stop kidding yourselves. The papacy is well steeped in discrimination at its highest. And Paddy Power, is a betting website, they're just out to make money from the punters. I will not hold my breath on this one. There is a b ...
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  • Jato Rawlings 12 years ago

    How about Pope J.J. Rawlings? Oh! he will have to divorce the DIVA

  • Nyansa 12 years ago

    Dreamer, you can tickle yourself and laugh.

  • Bismark 12 years ago

    false hope!!! It is only those in Ghana who've never associated with them will believe this cock and bull story! What a crap and their are already dreaming. Yooo!

  • EKOW KOOMSOM 12 years ago

    Who cares, after praying for the slave ship before sailing to Africa to bring a bumper catch to the new world and turning round to tell us that cardinal is in the making makes one to wonder who are really these slavers.

  • princewilly@ymail.com 12 years ago

    1]What do you call a Chinese prostitute getting a bumper catch in his ass on the slave ship.? A: Wun Dum Ho .
    2]He had a camera at the Elmina beach called Phil Ming.
    3]He was a dwarf mass boy called Tei Knee .

  • Blacks Rule 12 years ago

    Your an assshole...go fuck your MOM!!

  • Big Joe - Belaruss, Russia, Ukraine 12 years ago

    White supremacy ,xenophonia attacks and marshalled by "Ku Klux Khan "--a hate crime of "BLACK SKIN OF AFRICA ORIGIN" is corrupt riping within and common to
    the top "VATICAN PIG CIRCLE".
    Except by divine intervention ther ...
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  • James 12 years ago

    wonders shall never end. Is this pope older than pope John Paul ? I think God is showing him the real way. The doors of all SABBATH KEEPING Churches
    are widely opened. Welcome pope

  • Mr Kobby 12 years ago

    History confirms that the Roman Catholic Church had three black African popes
    in the first 500 years since the death of Jesus Christ.
    There were 3 Popes known to be black:

    Pope St. Victor - Elected in 189 AD. He was dea ...
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  • Kwabena 12 years ago

    Country of the firsts indeed. Ghana needs this.

  • KONTO 12 years ago

    Unity is the only Ghana can move forward and break any obstacles. If we in ourselves and in Ghana, everything we set our mind on can be achieved. one ghana!!

  • Obaapa 12 years ago

    WHOEVER IS THE NEXT POPE DOES NOT PUT FOOD ON THE POOR PEOPLES PLATE OR CLOTHE THOSE FREEZING BEGGARS NEXT TO THE WALL OF VATICAN CITY. ITS ALL NOISE AND MEDIA ATTENTION SEEKED BY THE MOST CORRUPT INSTITUTION AND ORGANIZATION ...
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  • KOFI Asiedu 12 years ago

    dream on......

  • VOODOO 12 years ago

    You people are full of it! LOL!

  • AKORAKYEI 12 years ago

    Popes from the Continent of Africa.

    The Three Popes from Africa were Berbers, an indigenous ethnic group of North Africa.

    Pope Victor I (Papacy: 189-199)
    Pope Militiades (311-314)
    Pope Gelasius I ( 492-496)

    If Ca ...
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  • kuku 12 years ago

    no shot

  • johnson john 12 years ago

    it is the time for africa. May GOD bless us

  • John Kpeglo 12 years ago

    Why should Ghanaians behave as if they are living on another planet? I get mad sometimes! Catholic Church electing an African Pope or Ghanaian for that matter? What a dream? How many MPs of Ghanaian root find their ways into ...
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  • Serious Ghanaman 12 years ago

    Cardinal Appiah Turkson (son of a carpenter) grew up at Nsuta Wassa (Western Region). May you become a pope, to the glory of God and honour to your country. Amen!

  • GAWUKO 12 years ago

    Nsuta sounds like Nazareth and Turkson the son of a carpenter. The odds are not bad and I pray Cardinal Turkson gets the nod.

  • NANA YAW ATOBRAH (APPIADU) 12 years ago

    PLEASE THAN PRAY FOR HIM TO BE BECOME THE NEST POP AND FIRST BLACK POP IN AFRICAN.

  • KWASI APONKYE 12 years ago

    WHEN WILL NIGGERS ACCEPT THEMSELVES AS HUMANS AND STOP TRYING TO COPY AND BE LIKE THE BLUE DEVIL(KWASI BRONI)
    THE EVIL WHITEMAN BOUGHT AND SOLD YOUR ASSES,RAPED YOU,FUCKED UP YOUR CULTURE,RELIGON EVEN CHANGED YOUR NAMES AND ...
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  • KOFI NUA 12 years ago

    IF MUSLIM CLERICS HAD DONE WHAT CATHOLIC FATHERS DID, MOLEST INNOCENT LITTLE BOYS....

  • EKOW DADZIE ABRAHAM 12 years ago

    It would be interesting and wonderful if Cardinal Turkson is elected as the Pope.

  • Ross 12 years ago

    Black smoke for black pope.....dreaming.

  • NANA YAW ATOBRAH (APPIADU) 12 years ago

    I AM PRAYING, AND I NO GOD WILL ANSWER ME FOR THE NEST BLACK POP FROM MY COUNTRY GHANA, GOD BLESS GHANA AND ALL CATHOLIC BELIEVERS AMEEEEEEN....

  • Emmanuel Mawuko Ahiale 12 years ago

    Peter should be the pope its good for Ghana and Africa. anyway those ignoramus out saying all sort of things about this noble decision should watch their words and leave the Catholic faith alone!they can choose to believe in ...
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  • Kofi 12 years ago

    Paddy Power does not go to the conclave. Stop the useless speculation.

  • JETMONET 12 years ago

    9/4 Cardinal Peter Turkson

    5/2 Cardinal Marc Ouellet

    7/2 Cardinal Francis Arinze

    7/1 Archbishop Angelo Scola

    10/1 Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga

    12/1 Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone

    14/1 Cardinal Angelo Bagnas ...
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  • KOFI NUA 12 years ago

    YOU HAVE GIVEN US THE LIST OF THE CARDINALS, CAN YOU PLEASE GIVE US THE LIST OF INNOCENT BOYS THEY MOLESTED?

  • JETMONEY 12 years ago

    HAVE NO EVIDENCE TO THAT

  • Mahama-Gbagbo 12 years ago

    It will sacrilegious to appoint a Black Pope.

  • JETMONEY 12 years ago

    BROTHERS WE NEED TO WATCH OUT CUZ AS FAR AS I REMEMBER,I THINK THEY SAID THE 666 WILL BEGING WHEN A BLACKMAN IS ELECTED AS A POPE.....AND I KNOW AND HEARD THAT THE NIGERIAN ARINZE WAS GOING TO BE THE NEXT POPE AFTER BENEDICT. ...
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  • Emmanuel Mawuko Ahiale 12 years ago

    Shame on you child of no faith

  • Suhum-Nsawam 12 years ago

    So no comment on the morality of gambling on the future of religious leadership?

  • akunyeonu johnbosco 12 years ago

    Yes We want cardinal turkson to be the next pope,because in the history of popes we have not seen blacks become the pope for ones, so we need a black pope.

  • Abena Boafoa 12 years ago

    YOU DON'T GET IT. THE VATICAN SAYS THE WORLD IS NOT READY FOR A BLACK POPE EVEN THOUGH IT MAKE BILLIONS IN BLACK AFRICA!!!!!!!!

  • Tam 12 years ago

    That is the right thing to do afterall humans are humans.Do not decieve yourself to look super human.Being a Pastor,Priest,Father,Presidentor whatever kind of title does not make you super.It about time we come to terms with ...
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  • SAM T 12 years ago

    A Black pope?who born dog.

  • mensiwa 12 years ago

    Let all Ghanaian Catholics pray to God and the Holy Spirit about election of the new Pope. We shall be very glad if it falls on Cardinal Turkson who is my favourite but let God's will be done.

  • YAA ANANE 12 years ago

    Has there ever been a black pope?

  • DR JOSEPH GYANTEH 12 years ago

    silly journalism . since when did papacy become chieftancy that we now have NEXT in line popes

  • Lord 12 years ago

    1548: Cardinal Turkson said from the Vatican: "People are free to speculate and people are free to make their own judgements. I suppose if it comes to looking for leadership, then I think the thing we should be doing is rathe ...
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  • kwakuyaw 12 years ago

    DON'T DREAM PEOPLE , HE WON'T BE

  • Pelicles 12 years ago

    A black man will never be a Pope. This article is just a mockery to make this man feel swollen headed. Why will a black man be elected a Pope? Tweakai.

  • MARCUS AMPADU 12 years ago

    In the history of the Catholic Church, there have been three Black Popes.
    Pope Victor I from 189 to 199 A.D.
    Pope Miltiades from 310 to 314 A.D.
    Pope Gelasius from 492 to 496 A.D.
    All from Roman North Africa.

  • nat 12 years ago

    why should a black mane have to be pope during when the west is in crisis no this is mistak for black man to stand for it, if i wer dickson , i will ignor it on that position, bcs we black folks have ben sofer for this scient ...
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  • EBO ARHIN JOHNSON 12 years ago

    MAY IT BE.
    AMEN

  • T.JAKE 12 years ago

    TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE

  • silk 12 years ago

    Black POP? Suggested by Paddy Power lads-Betting Website? that is a big insult. I know them they are like that. may God expose those Paddy Power Lads. GOOD BLESS.

  • LORD J 12 years ago

    Africans are apes? Collins Powell? Boateng from UK? Kofi Annan? Barrack Obama? Where does Jesus Come?

  • shokolokobankoshey 12 years ago

    Africans are ruling the world either you like or not

  • bURgLer pRooF Tema . comm, 4, 12 years ago

    The whole world has Cardinals in the Vatican,why should we alone tip Cardinal Turkson to be the next pope?

  • shokolokobankoshey 12 years ago

    Be because why

  • shokolokobankoshey 12 years ago

    because why

  • Busumbru 12 years ago

    The chief peadophile has resigned.

  • King Solomon 12 years ago

    My prayers are with you.

  • tk 12 years ago

    4.00pm GMT
    I had a feeling this morning that the bookmakers may have been scrabbling a little to compile their lists of possible papal replacements. Sure enough, Paddy Power has switched from backing Ghana's Cardinal Peter ...
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  • Dr. E M Akita 12 years ago

    All praise and glory to God. We are strongly behind you. We have been shortchanged for far too long. With the ALMIGHTY behind us we shall surely make it.

  • kofi 12 years ago

    IT IS GOD WHO APPOINTS

  • Maestro 12 years ago

    So are we still naive about the reality as to what is actuality going on in today's world please read a lot from wikpedias, check youtube, make researches about the vatican, the new world order(the illuminati)the reptoides an ...
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  • Zeto 12 years ago

    Who cares about these human appointed representatives of god? They are all evil. God will punish them.

  • Maestro 12 years ago

    my brother tell them again these so called representatives are all lucifer's tools including cardinal turkson they are ruling and destroying mankind as at now that's the reality am talking about

  • YES,THE FORM 4 PROF 12 years ago

    PETER OF ROME WILL BE THE LAST POPE AGAIN IN HIS TIME ALL SEVEN HILLS WILL DESTROY,AND WHERE ARE THE SEVEN HILLS?.

  • BabaUS 12 years ago

    Wishful thinking

  • James B. Otafregya 12 years ago

    A blackman will NOT become the Pope in the nexr 1000 years!

  • I love Nigeria 12 years ago

    Sometimes i wonder what kind of news this Ghana web cook and published, it funny,(Paddy Power)which is a sport betting site is now related to election or religion betting site, Ghana-web Get a life.
    This news is beautiful li ...
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  • Edwin Daniel 12 years ago

    Advance wishes to Cardinal Peter Turkson to be the next Pope. Eagerly waiting for your first message. God bless you.

  • david 12 years ago

    Peter the Roman - This final Pope will likely be Satan, taking the form of a man named Peter who will gain a worldwide allegiance and adoration. He will be the final antichrist which prophecy students have long foretold. If i ...
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  • Okello Owade 12 years ago

    Yes! That will be good news! Go Turkson, Go!

  • oduro bernard 12 years ago

    In fact Pope Benedict has spoken very well.Once he knows he cannot continue to execute his work well due to age advancing.may God bless him.Amen