For those who want to know what happen between Rev Chris Oyakhilome PhD & his wife
A small group of inveterate spoilsports, parading themselves as
publishers (of soft-sell magazines), journalists
and phony clerics, ganged up against the
person of Rev. Chris Oyakhilome, a
quintessential man of God, and against the
Believers’ Loveworld Inc. (aka Christ
Embassy), a flourishing and powerful
ecclesiastical ministry founded by him. That
was when I wrote the article of the above title
that was published on page 63 of the
Wednesday, September 10, 2003 edition of
The Live News Nigeria. The said article is now
chapter 23 of my book, “The Way It Is” (Vol.
1).
Bewildered and frightened by Pastor Chris
Oyakhilome’s giant strides in the spiritual
realm, this group vigorously craved the
support of the then Federal Government in its
rabid crusade against Pastor Chris’ TV
miracles and teaching programmes. The
Federal Government was promptly enlisted in
the web of the journalist-pentecostal-
orthodox-cleric conspiracies and banned
Pastor Chris Oyakhilome’s TV healing
programmes on the envy-soaked ground that
miracles had no place in Christianity in spite of
the numerous scriptures, including, but not
limited to Mark 16: 17-18, 1 Cor. 12: 9-10,
which make Christianity incomplete without
miracles that characterized the three-year
ministry of Jesus Christ.
Following the unconstitutional and illegal
ban, a group of concerned lawyers, including
this writer, donned their wigs and gowns and
moved to the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, to file
an action against the banning authorities. Not
unusually, that action was
effectively smothered by the court in deference
to the Federal Government. In the event,
Pastor Chris had to shift his base from Nigeria,
his motherland, to South Africa, where he
established a blossoming Healing School. The
loss of Nigeria became the gain of South
Africa! Today, the Christ Embassy Healing
School, apart from being in South Africa, is in
Canada, United States of America, United
Kingdom, etc.
Now, this group of green-eyed Nigerians is
at it again. It has again removed its evil sword
from its scabbard by reason of some domestic
hiccups in Pastor Chris Oyakhilome’s family.
The reverend gentleman’s wife, Rev. Anita, has
petitioned for divorce, asseverating some
grounds (other than adultery) as the reasons
thereof. A cursory reading of Rev. Anita’s
stated grouse against her husband (as
conveyed by the London court process) would
show that she has taken umbrage at her
husband’s alleged scant attention for her and
her children. Although Rev. Anita is widely
respected as the consort of Pastor Chris, the
latter’s character is simply untarnished and
unimpeachable. Like Caesar’s wife, Pastor
Chris lives above board. In spite of his
inimitably prepossessing looks, he is an
uncommon moral exemplar, a role model,
against whom no allegation of adultery can be
levelled.
But perhaps it is pertinent at this juncture to
state that a petitioner for divorce who alleges
adultery against the defendant would have a
Herculean task of proving it, unless the
defendant was caught in flagrante delicto, in
the act, or red-handed, as it were. No
reasonable petitioner for divorce would allege
adultery against his/her spouse without
definitive proof thereof. And Rev. Anita is a
reasonable lady. Did the social and the
terrestrial media men, who are forever looking
for anything to pillory the irrepressible Rev.
Chris Oyakhilome, ever investigate their source
(s) of information to establish the authenticity
or otherwise of their claims, dripping, as they
are, with malice, spite and improper motives?
Never! But now that the statement of claim is
published, it should be clear to this small
group of inveterate malefactors, with
abacinated eyes and defective auditory stimuli,
that adultery is far from the reason Rev. Anita
has petitioned for divorce. It is fatally easy,
sadly enough, for some journalists, in and
outside Nigeria, to forget that truth is sacred. I
am of the opinion that every serious journalist
should have more than a smattering
knowledge of media law, including the law of
libel. From all indications, many journalists,
including those in the soft-sell magazines and
some newspapers, do not even have a
nodding acquaintance with the elementary
principles of the law of libel. Or so it seems.
They are doctrinaire journalists without
doctrine!
Every generation produces a few notable
and all-star prodigies, with sound spiritual and
intellectual credentials. Rev. Chris Oyakhilome,
PhD (Pneumatology), is easily and irrefutably
one of the few such spiritual and intellectual
giants our generation has produced. Acutely
intelligent, devout, spirit-filled and firm-
minded, Rev. Chris is a peerless exegete of the
Bible and the very epitome of determination
and will power. A qualified graduate architect-
turned televangelist, his spiritual prowess
dates back to his early childhood, when he
exhibited a precocious talent for efficacious
prayers. He had early given promise of
distinction, and, with favourable parental
influences, his mind rapidly developed. A
retentive memory, a lively imagination, strong
reasoning powers, untiring application, and,
more importantly, a penchant for the Word,
soon placed him in the foremost rank among
his peers. Today, Rev. Chris Oyakhilome heals
all sorts and conditions of ailments afflicting
humankind, in the matchless Name of Jesus
Christ. He is the embodiment of love and is
possessed of a philanthropic bent of the mind.
He is a busy man, shuttling between Nigeria,
South Africa, Canada, the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the United
States of America, etc., restoring hope to the
hopeless and physical vitality to countless
people with terminal medical conditions from
every nook and cranny of the world.
For a long while, the devil drove a wedge of
disunity between Evangelist Benny Hinn, that
ebullient faith-healer, and his wife. Then the
knee of the devil bowed at the mention of the
Name of Jesus Christ, and Benny Hinn and his
estranged wife came together again, for good.
Praise God! There is nothing that is beyond
God. Therefore, let no one gloat over the
transient discomfort of any person. The
Scripture warns against touching God’s
anointed. One thing that should be clear to all
those journalists and some ungodly clerics in
the Pentecostal ministries and in some so-
called orthodox churches is that Rev. Chris
Oyakhilome did not take his wife to court; he
did not file a petition for divorce from his wife;
he knows the Bible too much to do that: it was
his wife who did. The fact is that he had, for a
long time, refused to defend the petition
because he does not want the devil to impair
their connubial harmony. Besides, it is clear
now from the Statement of Claim published by
the Principal Registry of the Family Division of
the High Court of Justice in London, that
adultery is not one of the stated grounds for
divorce. Rev. Anita’s grouse is Rev. Chris’
“inadequate attention” to her and their
children, an allegation which, if true, will not be
unconnected with the hectic nature of the
Pastor Chris’ life-saving vocation.
What baffles this writer is not the carping
proclivities of careless reporters but the fact
that Christians luxuriate in waging wars of
attrition against fellow Christians rather than
raise a finger against the Boko Haramites of
the world. A retired senior cleric of one of the
so-called orthodox churches was reported to
have described the Christ Embassy ministry in
unsavoury terms because of the said divorce
case. It rankles when someone twits another
with having a mote in his eye when he nurses
a plank in his own! If the petition for divorce by
the wife of a man of God is so “disturbing as it
paints the Church of God in bad light”, what do
we say about a church whose clerics have
polluted themselves in promiscuous
uncleanliness? Can we easily forget the case
of a whole Pontiff (Pope) Alexander VI
(Roderigo Borgia) (1492-1503), a bishop of
Rome, the Vicar of Christ on earth, and an
abominable rake, who, in spite of the sacred
oaths of chastity and of celibacy, fathered four
children, including Caesar Borgia, his
lecherous first son? Should we contract
amnesia and forget the case of a Rev. of Ekiti
Diocese, who had four children through a
woman he did not marry, and who was merely
suspended from his ecclesiastical duties and
not excommunicated? Did a whole archbishop
of a church, Emmanuel Milingo of Zambia,
who, in spite of the restraining oaths, led Maria
Sung, a pretty Korean lady, to the Hymeneal
altar, sully the image of the Church of God? Are
the forgoing cases “disturbing and painting the
Church of God in bad light”? No, they don’t!
But a divorce case in another Church does!!
And how about the rampant cases of
pedophilia (sexual activity with children),
which have engulfed the Church of Rome? Do
these cases make the church “useless”? Why
should the pitch-dark, dirty pot, call the clean
kettle black?
The great man of God, Pastor Chris
Oyakhilome, should take consolation from the
9th Beatitude: “Blessed are you, when men
revile you and persecute you and utter all
kinds of evil against you falsely on my
account. Rejoice and be glad, for so men
persecuted the prophets who were before
you.”

If dis write-up was to be in a Bible, it would av made more dan 5 chapters....
I swear I no get dat kind time read dis long epistle but d good thing be say .....why should I even the you sef.....
Sha some mofos won't know I'm d F.T.C



Ole

whaooooooooooo! what an article....100000,000,000,000 likes

From my point of view the summary of this long epistle is :

Pastor Anita has no evidencen of her alleged adultry claim...meaning even if the man did it he was never caught.

This man is a mere mortal,he's flesh and has blood running his vein...meaning he can fall any time as human but am sure only God can judge him not mere human like us. Also, he's not the first man of God that has 'committed' the alleged sins so what all these puns about?

MY OWN CONTRIBUTION:

From my little scriptural knowledge, it started that a man/woman can only remarries if the spouse is deceased, so i think this divorce will be very hard to pastor Chris and he'll be in a fix because he's still young and vibrant,i'm sure he has that portion in his Holy Bible.

See english and big words

And the OP conveniently excluded the phrase "inappropriate relation" which Pastor Anita accused Pastor Chris. An allegation no blogger, print or electronic media made up, but was clearly stated in the application for divorce.

The OP is correct to say that the petition did not include adultery bc that will demand clear proof, which no one but Chris can provide. But for inappropriate relation, that won't be difficult to prove at all.

This matter will not be resolved by long essays aimed to absolve one's idol. It will be resolved by TIME. We await Chris defence at court...