Show us sponsors – Pastors tell Mahama on Israel trip

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  • Ewusi 12 years ago

    God has his part,if the President can`t lead us with truth and continue to lie.Then nobody including his wife would respect the Presidency.

  • Ewusi 12 years ago

    They keep changing their story.And they call him Ghana`s Obama.

  • STOP WORK NOW 12 years ago

    Couldn't the pastors use Skype (in between power cuts)?

  • KKK 12 years ago

    MAHAMAH LYING TO GHANA?

  • BLUE SAINT 12 years ago

    This is all about the seperation of church and state. Sponsors = WAYOME!!!

  • KOFI SEI 12 years ago

    KUFFUOR BOUGHT DOG CHAINS FOR HIMSELF, NOW MAHAMA THIS.

  • TerriblY Spe cifiC 12 years ago

    WHAT FOR? WHO PUSHES "SOLI" INTO DAILY GUIDE WRITERS' POCKETS? THE TRIP WILL COME ON LIVE.

  • me bro 12 years ago

    WHAT DID HE USED THE CHURCH MONEY FOR
    WE CHURCHMEMBERS WONT TO KNOW NOW

  • Mahmoud 12 years ago

    The sponsor who would pay the cost for the trip is ME and YOU. He will never mention t he mysterious sponsor. He is the mysterious sponsor acting on behalf of Ghanaians.

  • pachiko 12 years ago

    You kidding me. Calling Mahatma, Obama. Are you guys really serious and what a heck is that. Do these people knows what they are talking about. In what sense, in what declaim, in what capacity do these people compare Mahatma ...
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  • Adams 12 years ago

    The reign of the Ntafuors has began, and Ghanaians should gird themselves and reap the whirlwind. Hail to the peppefuors!!

  • CARDINAL 12 years ago

    Rev. Martey does not speak like a man of God. "I will not have anything to do with gays". As a man of God, that sounds really hateful and if he believes gays are sinners according to the Bible, it is the gays who need salvati ...
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  • Dr. Blankson 12 years ago

    It is the sick people who need Doctors and in the same breath, iit is sinners who need Pastors not Angels so if the Moderator of the Presbyterian church is not willing to deal with sinners, then he is in the wrong profession. ...
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  • KKK 12 years ago

    ...AND THE TRUE CLERGY LIKE THE PRESBY AND CATHOLICS ARE RIGHT.

    THE STOMACH CLERGY WANT THE PRESIDENT TO BECOME A VISA CONTRACTOR.

  • Rans F 12 years ago

    Does the gay community consider homosexuality as a sin? NO! If so, why should Rev Martey want to have anything to do with them? We need brave men of GOD like Rev Martey to preserve the sanctity of the Bible. Thieves, adultere ...
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  • Frank 12 years ago

    Whether the gay community considers it as a sin or not is immaterial. The Bible says so and you don't need to get the acknowledgedment of homosexuals
    You don't know what you are talking about. Do you know the story of Jesu ...
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  • Rans F 12 years ago

    I doubt whether you have a Bible! Grab yourself a copy and read it very well! If I'm driven by hate to talk against homosexuality, what are you driven by to call me homophobic? Get off my back you Faggot!

  • ABU 12 years ago

    The problem is that you don't know what christianity entails. The church does not teach hate. If you have not sinned in your life, then start killing all sinnersa you come across. You have the brain the size of an an ant so y ...
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  • Rans F 12 years ago

    A sick person can only get help if he admits that he is sick! You reason like fool! I hate nobody, you warped-brain faggot! I am a sinner and I always admit my sinful nature; that is the only way I can receive salvation. I do ...
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  • Frank 12 years ago

    Moderator Martey is typical of what Ghana has become, we don't seem to know what our job duties are. The President is more interested in acting as a visa contractor instead as a President. It is a sad day in Ghana when a head ...
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  • YAW 12 years ago

    YOU DONT KNOW WHAT U ARE SAYING WHY SHOULD WE ALLOW GAYS TO SPONSOR PASTORS

  • Mr Mister 12 years ago

    Idiot, who said we should allow gays to sponsor Pastors? Martey is not talking about sponsorship. He said he doesn't want anything to do with them. If you don't want gays to sponsor the Pastors, do you want thieves and armed ...
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  • OBIBA-JUDAS 12 years ago

    MAHAMA WANT KILL ALL THE GHANA PASTORS

  • Rans F 12 years ago

    Homosexuality shall never be allowed to thrive in Ghana! If you are on the payroll of any gay movement to do their bidding in Ghana, kindly ask them to take your name off their list!! You will never succeed, aunty Franklina. ...
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  • ABU 12 years ago

    You are a fool. You are not going to get rid of homosexuality in Ghana if the Pastors failed to do their job by counselling them to stop their lifestyle. Do you think the homosexuals will just stop without getting treatment? ...
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  • Rans F 12 years ago

    Listen to this warped-brain IDIOT! Come out with your stupidity, you demonic FAGGOT! Go to your masters and preach your stupidity to them you son of SATAN!

  • GODSON 12 years ago

    CARDINAL, PLEASE TELL US, WHAT DID GOD DO TO THE GAYS OF SODOM AND GOMORA? HE BURNT THEM. PLEASE READ YOUR BIBLE AND KNOW THAT JESUS NEVER SAID ANYWHERE THAT HE CAME FOR GAYS AND LESBIANS WHO HAVE JOINED SATAN IN TURNING GOD' ...
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  • Boagyaa Appiah-Kubi,Connecticut. 12 years ago

    Expect a quarter of these so-called pastors to bolt away when they arrive in Jerusalem to seek greener pastures.

  • KKK 12 years ago

    SO SO SAD

  • KWAKU 12 years ago

    GODSON,ARE WE CHRISTIANS OR ARE WE OF THE JEWISH FAITH?

  • Ben 12 years ago

    Jesus never said anywhere either that he came for murderers, rapists, thief's, child molesters but he came to save sinners and if you think homosexuality is a sin, then Jesus came for them too. You fools need to learn your Bi ...
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  • Rans F 12 years ago

    Over 90 pct of you faggots will NEVER accept the fact that homosexuality is a sin! Where will the salvation come from when to you, homosexuality is not just a way of life but the new civilisation that every country under the ...
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  • WHO 12 years ago

    Idiot, people like you with inferiority complex are usually the homosexuals trying to cover your tracks with homophobic idiocy. Nobody is defending homosexuality here as right but some of us see this as a sin that needs the ...
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  • Rans F 12 years ago

    Stay wherever you are with your stupidity and your new way of life! I am a proud homophobe, if that is your definition! Not even Jesus Christ can save you faggots with your entrenched position. Go for an HIV/AIDS test, you di ...
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  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 12 years ago

    Dramani Mahama is the most deceit, dishonest, a liar, thief and incompetent president Ghana has ever
    seen in our country, what were are
    saying is this until Mahama gives up
    such position he stole from Nana Akuffo Addo, our ...
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  • anna 12 years ago

    there is no more truth in the vocabs of our leaders !!!!!!

  • KWAKU 12 years ago

    PLEASE HAVE SOME RESPECT FOR THE OFFICE OF A PRESIDENT AND FOR YOUR FELLOW CITIZENS

  • president gude 12 years ago

    the money is from a gay association

  • ADABRAKA 12 years ago

    This is a serious case which the govt should not involve itself whatsoever, whether facilitating or otherwise. Looking at the fragile nature of our country Govt has to be really serious in taking decisions in general.

  • GHANABA1 12 years ago

    LIES WILL CUT US DOWN ALL THE TIME.THE CARETAKER IS TALKING DIFFERENT WHILST THE PASTORS ARE ALSO SAYING A DIFFERENT THING ALL TOGETHER.WHERE ON EARTH WILL YOU GO SIGHT SEEING WHEN YOUR PEOPLE ARE DYING OF THIRST,HUNGER AND S ...
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  • Gigi 12 years ago

    Thanks for the position of the Catholic church and others on this issue. God is everywhere and there is no need to go to Israel to pray.
    Unfortunately, I am sure some pastors have already started packing their bags for the j ...
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  • CASTLE BOY 12 years ago

    A MONTH AGO A FAKE NDC PASTOR TOLD ME MAHAMA WILL BE SENDING THEM TO ISREAL

  • nipa 12 years ago

    God is everywhere we can do the prayers in ghana n God will still hear

  • ABRAMPA 12 years ago

    The devils in the NDC are literally asking the pastors to turn stones into bread. Wicked party!!!!

  • AKAN 12 years ago

    THIS IDIOT WITH THE NAME MAHAMA=MOHAMED THINKS HE CAN FOCK UP WITH OUR GHANAIAN INTERLLIGENCE? ABOABA TANI!

  • Observer 12 years ago

    Our leaders are such childish entities, so they continue to think that we are all fools. The President was bold enough to step into the fray by claiming that the proposed trip is being sponsored by private do-gooders, but why ...
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  • AKAN 12 years ago

    THIS CORRUPT MAHAMA THINKS HE CAN BRIBE HIS WAY ALL THE TIME!

  • k. baah 12 years ago

    President Manama must call Mr Afari gyan to change the economic situation in Ghana in his as usual.

  • SIYABIA 12 years ago

    I am really surprised that the Presidency shd stoop so low and forget of solving dum sor and water crises and rather seek to engage in visa racketeering. It is a shame to the Presidency.
    As for Rev Martey and his stand on ga ...
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  • DUUT 12 years ago

    since when have these men of God come to the realization that there are hardships in Ghana? are they not the same men of God who are robbing poor church members and enjoying life. they should drop the double standards

  • Antoinette 12 years ago

    For those of you who don't know this the are NGO'S in Ghana now taking huge sums of money to push the gay agenda. As individuals I don't think gay people should be hated it is their practice of same sex marriages and what not ...
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  • osofo 12 years ago

    ei ndc de asem beba ghana ooo. i smell blood in ghana, i smell blood in ghana. ghaians stop the childish paly with ndc and mahama and enter into prayers because, there is a cry of blood shed, those blood that were shed for po ...
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  • No Fears 12 years ago

    This trip has Andrew Solomon written all over it. Otherwise why is the government going to such great lengths to keep the identity of the sponsor a secret? The NDC govert under Mahama has clearly lost its way.

  • mike 12 years ago

    if i sponsor some one, i know what i need as a result of that. so i disagree with the bishop when he says the government should channel the money to another field. will that field be in the interest of the sponsors? besides ...
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  • Jesse 12 years ago

    Since when does a Gov. involves it self in sending priest to Isreal?.... If they want to go to Isreal they should let their congregation pay like they been doing for all these time...What next?... Sending Imams to Mecca?.Or, ...
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  • mills blood hunting mahama 12 years ago

    OH MAHAMA ANIMGUASE AKWAABA,SHAME ON YOU,HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

  • Adjoa 12 years ago

    Dear president, I voted for you bcos, I saw you as more humane and understandingthan the rest of the flag bearers but, but am beginning to loose interest in you. You were born in Ghana, travelled and well read than the Gold c ...
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  • imoyana 12 years ago

    Adjoa, thanks for your comments, I hope it gets passed on to the prez. Any time I read or hear things like this I ask the question are there no wise men in Ghana any more? All this money to be wasted for what? My heart bleeds ...
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  • Amen 12 years ago

    "Hope someone will pass on this to the president. Please do not be fooled by present day money grabbing, mind twisting, suit wearing pastors"

    (Adjoa) Your advice good. If our President cant see these simple MISTAKES and c ...
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  • MANKIND 12 years ago

    Jesus walked to places to preach...I want this big stomach pastors to walk to this Israel trip if they really are men of God.....n have the Nation @ heart

  • THE TRUTH 12 years ago

    Oh Prez Mahama,ur days are numbered in the flagstaff HOUSE.

  • BISAGOMA 12 years ago

    FAST AND PRAY FOR ARMED ROBBERS CONDEMNED TO DEATH ? OR AGAINST THOSE RUNNING OUR COUNTRY DOWN ?

  • Abongo Awuni 12 years ago

    Isreal is not holier than Ghana yet we voted and Mahama was decleared the winner. It was not... Isealites who voted him nor who decleared him the winner.It therefore the responsibility of the entire citizenry to pray to get G ...
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  • Scaro 12 years ago

    God is everywhere.Pastors don't have to go to Israel before they can play for Ghana. God is in Ghana and will hear our prayers. It is a shame that i times like this where many people making it tough, money from an unknown sou ...
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  • John Kpeglo 12 years ago

    Terrible!

  • Barima Yaw 12 years ago

    true

  • Kwaku 12 years ago

    Look at these so pastors. Dubios as they are, they are making noise about a trip to the Holy land. Is it not time we start to tax churches? These pastors are in lucrative business.

  • DEDE 12 years ago

    MAHAMA LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE

  • silk 12 years ago

    Sad story, The president should have asked the whole ministers/pastors in Ghana to organise a power pack prayer crusade for the nation rather than trafficking them accross the oceans. This would have worked effectively than s ...
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  • Paa ekow 12 years ago

    the innitial communicatn was govt has secuired funding... now is like govt has obtained sponsors yet the sponsors wont be named even thou the pastors wants to knw them. if pastors were the ones writing to the govt ab ...
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  • Afor 12 years ago

    President Mahama, sometimes I do not understand you. You are too liberal. Why do you have to involve yourself in this? can't they pray in Ghana? You are embarrassing we in the NDC. Take a cue from Prez Mills. You cannot pleas ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

    That these people in power are confused about what a modern govt, esp. one from an LDC like Ghana besieged with a number of crises, shld be doing is beyond doubt. That they shld spend the first few months in power soliciting ...
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  • SIYABIA 12 years ago

    Andy-K, that was a nice comment and I will love to read your Legacy of Mills.

    Ha det.

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

    "... which the party was later being chased to PAY for,...."

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

    I wrote this way back in December. The issues raised are even more relevant than then, as they unfold and it is becoming clear President Mahama has embarked on a journey fraught with controversy and chicanery. Unfortunately, ...
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  • DKB 12 years ago

    The fire seems to have been turned off but the frying pan will stay hot and we will burn for a very long time.

    The first four years of the Mills/Mahama Govt gave me nothing to cheer about and be hopeful for. I wonder wher ...
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  • Rev. NVF Asima 12 years ago

    I think the govt just want pastors to have a bit more exposure to back their faith by going on pilgrimage. it is however good to know the supporters so that it will bring any more trouble.

  • APPIAH KOKLO 12 years ago

    THE SPONSORS ARE ANDREW SOLOMON JOHN. GOD DAMN JUDGEMENT DEBT MANAGER!

  • Boat 12 years ago

    Where are the president so-called council of states?

  • KOFFI 12 years ago

    PEOPLE MAY NOT AGREE WITH REV PROF MARTEY BUT HOW DOES HE SPEAK AGAINST HOMOSEXUALITY IF HE ACCEPTS THEIR MONEY FOR A TRIP TO ISRAEL. THE BIBLE IS VERY CLEAR ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY. IF GOD DESTROYED SODOM AND GOMORAH FOR THAT D ...
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  • Mr. Oushuuuuu 12 years ago

    Do you think homosexuals would sponsor such a trip and have the nerve to approach the Presidency?in any case do we care about their sensibilities if they don't want their identities to be known.If they feel this may be coming ...
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  • Michael 12 years ago

    I think the pastors are right about the disclosure of the sponsors since it might be an evil tricks of the GAYS to win their support may God save Ghana

  • Dr. med.William Acquah,Germany 12 years ago

    As a typical Northener,Mahama swears and lies at the same time!Where are the South Korean(STX) houses?This incompetent Prez. must go!

  • Mr. Oushuuuuu 12 years ago

    Why can't some Human Beings be sensitive when it comes to issues concerning others?They should know that some sponsors do not want to be known and it is their right i.e if there are any sponsors.

  • OBAMA 12 years ago

    I THINK PRESDENT MAHAMA SHOULD RESIGN BECAUSE PEOPLE OF GHANA DONT RESPECT HIM AS A PRESIDNET BECAUSE HE STOLE THE ELECTION

  • Fickle 12 years ago

    The evil dat men do will surely live after them.u now want to seek for God's intervention is tooo late be ready for confession.

  • Mahama is Evil. 12 years ago

    NO WONDER I LOVE THE PRESBY CHURCH THIS MUCH. WE STILL HAVE MEN OF INTEGRITY AROUND IN THIS AGE. GOD BLESS GHANA. Mahama can't run from his own Shadows.

  • GBEJEKE 12 years ago

    this is very simple,just tell us the names of the sponsors so we can make a back ground check

  • Gabriel 12 years ago

    WHO ARE THE SAID SPONSORS MR MAHAMA AND HIS GOVT? TRS ARE WITHOUT ACCOMODATION CANT HE FACILITATE THAT TOO?MR MAHAMA COME AGAIN.

  • Gabriel 12 years ago

    SIMPLE QUESTION:IS HE MAHAMA ALSO GOING? IS HIS PRAYERS ANSWERED FROM ISRAEL?WHERE DOES HE PRAY? (DONT CONFUSE US).

  • PREZZO 12 years ago

    IS IS TRUE AZIGIZAA AND SAM KORANCHIE ARE THE GUYS BEHIND THIS ISREAL TRIP. THEY MUST ASK THEMSELVES IF JESUS WOULD DO SAME IN HIS TIME ON EARTH? SHAME ON YOU OLD BOY. DO I REMIND YOU THOUSANDS ARE HOMELESS IN THE NORTH AFTER ...
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  • GAZY 12 years ago

    cant christians organice them selfs and leave my president alone

  • Akomea 12 years ago

    Greedy Pastors and shameful President

  • KOFI BONSU 12 years ago

    The prez. be lair liar man,clergymen Kudos,you have been guided by the HOLY SPIRIT,keep that spirit up

  • Concern Ghanian 12 years ago

    Mr man they want u to use our moni wisely

  • Concern Ghanian 12 years ago

    By force sponsor? Joro

  • The Onipaba of Akyem Maase 12 years ago

    I commend the men of Jah for exposing the hippocricy of the president right on his face. In deed they must know who is giving them such sponsorship so they do not end up being trapped by gays and lesbians. If they go aheadto ...
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  • STRAIGHT TALK 12 years ago

    Since the Jews rejected Jesus and conived with the Romans to murder him, the glory of God has since departed from Israel. Why do you seek God at a place he cnnot be found? God is here in Ghana through his Spirit as promised b ...
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  • Asante 12 years ago

    Dear Rev. Martey you are a man chosen to be a shepherd for Jesus and not for man. Donot champion somethings which are earthly and make pronouncement which would excite the presss and the populance. Be carefull of what you say ...
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  • Martin 12 years ago

    The sponsors behind the Israel trip,may be the International HOMOS who want to defile pastors of God.Pastors,avoid selfishness.greediness and Listenning to men.If men called vou into the Ministry, then follow men.SHAME UNTO ...
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  • BRAINLESS NDC MAHANI 12 years ago

    EI GA PREZ,WHAT A SHAME MAHAMA,HOW COME,HMMMMMMMMM GHANA NSEM PII

  • EZEKIEL 12 years ago

    IF God doesn't hear our prayers FROM Ghana,why do we waste time praying then ??? Apparently, God IS EVERYWHERE ! Let's DISBAND ALL OUR Churches and SEND OUR PRAYERS per e-mail to Israel into the slits of the WAILING WALL !!!

  • Pat 12 years ago

    MAHAMA TELL US THE SPONSORS, DO NOT TAKE THE PASTORS FOR FOOL,THEOS WHO WANTS TO GO ON A JOLLY RIDE CAN GO AND GOD WILL PUNISH THEM.

  • john 12 years ago

    good pastors stay away from this conversation. jesus told us to pray in chambers and this is what a good pastor must be doing all his ministry. every bit of our lives must come from the bible period. otherwise we live in the ...
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  • kwasi Ampong 12 years ago

    How can the whole government machinery take the leadership of the Christian community in Ghana that has contributed so much to national development for such a ride by refusing to disclose the sources of funding for the Israel ...
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  • TRUE WORD 12 years ago

    a kingdom divided against itself can never stand, do you suppose the true sponsors are agents of the devil? or do you suppose the intentions for this trip will go valueless before God the Father? what kind of spirit is motiva ...
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  • TRUE WORD 12 years ago

    these men of God that have opposed this trip, mark them one by one, God will have His final SAY. If this pilgrimage was motivated in innocence and a desire to support christianity and to bless the nation then they have not o ...
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