Alexis86:
The British government has said it is
investigating David Oyedepo’s Winners’ Chapel
International’s request to establish an
independent school in the country.
The fee-paying school, Kingdom Heritage
Model School in Dartford, was set to open to
children from the age of four in September.
The school, which will teach “Biblical truths” in
each subject, is currently being considered by
the British Department for Education. The
church itself is said to be under investigation
by the Charity Commission.
Among those kicking against the church’s
opening a school in the country is the National
Secular Society, an organisation that campaigns
for the separation of religion and state.
The NSS expressed concern that a school
linked to the “controversial preacher” was set
to open in England.
In a letter to the Department for Education,
the NSS had questioned the suitability of the
organisation to run educational establishments
in the country, raising concerns over both
educational standards and child welfare.
In 2011, Oyedepo was, reportedly, captured on
video assaulting a young girl at one of his
church service. The girl was alleged to be
possessed by some evil spirits.
In 2012, the Metropolitan Police stated that
children believed to be possessed by evil
spirits or believed to be witches are at “clear
and immediate risk of significant harm.”
In considering the school’s registration, the
NSS has also asked the DfE to look into the
details surrounding the death of a three-year-
old child who drowned in the toilets of a
Kingdom Heritage Model School operated by
Winners Chapel in Nigeria in 2012.
The NSS campaigns manager Stephen Evans,
said, “Given this Church’s association with
belief in witchcraft and the actions of its
leader, we hope the department will give
serious consideration to the reliability of the
school’s commitment to safeguarding and
promoting the welfare of children.”
According to the rights advocacy group, the
proposed school acknowledges “God as the
sovereign and only wise God in all affairs of
life and learning,” and believes the Bible to be
the ultimate source of wisdom.
When our
correspondent contacted the church
through phone numbers provided on its
website, one of the respondents said he was a
technical person and as such could not
comment on the issue.
But another staff of the church, who refused
to give his name, said the allegation was “a
scam, it cannot be true.”
SOURCE: www.punchng.com
9 November 2014

okeke00:
the mentality has brought more harm to africans. nigerians and to igbos especially.
They claimed to be christ like but hatered, gossips and wickedness is all what they posses. In igbo land, children are adviced not to collect anything from someone because he/she might initiate him into witchcraft. You hardly see families eating together nowdays. Even the new yam festival get together that use to bring villages to come and share love and eat together, churches have adviced their members not to partake in it. But should eat holy communion and take home the holy water from their so called pastor.
Am proud to be an agnostic atheist. Love matters alot in my life

Iceflox:

innocent children in Africa are constantly abused in the rural areas, pastors have caused disaffection and distrust among people, even people of the same congregation don't trust each other, they accused themselves of witchcraft,.
deliverance ministers are the worst, they treat people they suspect with disdain, everyone is a suspect. Your mama in the village, your brother or mother in-law, infact every stranger is a witch. no love in the society.
na God go judge Africa, their evil don reach heaven

okeke00:
a total shame to africans especially Nigerians

twerkjack:
listen my friend. Witchcraft and spiritualism exists, and it does more in the western countries than it does in Africa, they believe in vampires, ghosts, reincarnation, witches even more than we do. Things like yoga, tarot, qabala, wisdom of the ages all have to do with spiritualism. Do ur research. Only problem is, Africans have low mentality (like wat ur doing now) and handle things in very premature manners, that's why it seems like were the hq of evil in the world.

Mrval20:
Inasmuch as I don't support anyone accusing someone of being a witch, we all know that witchcraft and witches exist!
Let's just stop claiming to be civilized and all that because even the westerners believe in witchcraft; even in refined and modern forms(talk about wicca witches).
It's too early for arguments biko.

twerkjack:
listen my friend. Witchcraft and spiritualism exists, and it does more in the western countries than it does in Africa, they believe in vampires, ghosts, reincarnation, witches even more than we do. Things like yoga, tarot, qabala, wisdom of the ages all have to do with spiritualism. Do ur research. Only problem is, Africans have low mentality (like wat ur doing now) and handle things in very premature manners, that's why it seems like were the hq of evil in the world.

twerkjack:
listen my friend. Witchcraft and spiritualism exists, and it does more in the western countries than it does in Africa, they believe in vampires, ghosts, reincarnation, witches even more than we do. Things like yoga, tarot, qabala, wisdom of the ages all have to do with spiritualism. Do ur research. Only problem is, Africans have low mentality (like wat ur doing now) and handle things in very premature manners, that's why it seems like were the hq of evil in the world.

oesnac:
witchcraft is as good as demon,therefore if demon exists in bible I guess witchcraft also exist.
And nothing good comes from them at all their are one of the agent of destruction.

Iceflox:
in the real sense, witchcraft or whatever, is never a spiritual thing as believed by Africans.,
any immoral act done to the extreme is regarded as witchcraft.
for instance, if you lie always and in such a way that people cannot easily detect, it is witchcraft.
these are physical things

Proximo73:

Demons in the bible are spirits,they do not exist in the form of humans who are sound and normal or humans with no form of madness.
why do witches exist in Africa as normal humans, such that a pastor will slap a little girl who is mentally sound, and who is a fellow human?
why can't the pastor go and look for a spirit who is a demon or a mad man in the street to slap him, and leave humans alone?
and after slapping her, there is no form of regret of his action or repentance or even apology to the girl till now,
rather,he is even saying if he is given the opportunity he will slap her the second time.
what has she done?
this is why africans don't value humans, they think nothing good will come out of them just like you said. so,they lynch and kill humans on streets thinking humans are witches.
i think it is act of illiteracy to the highest order

Proximo73:

witchcraft do not exist. we are deceived in Africa. by the way, why is this man so keen to establish a school in the UK? what does he stand to achieve?
so that it will be in the record that he is the first pastor in Africa to have a school in the UK and be in Guinness book of record?
what a senseless pursuit

hifaif:


This is sad. So cos they make movies about vampires, ghosts, etc, then, it means they believe in these things? Come on.

twerkjack:
I'm not quotin movies duh! Ϣһƴ dnt u try typin the words on google huh?

oesnac:
I didn't support anybody to any one.
what am saying is that witch is also bad spirit that lives inside human and be cast out just like demon.

oesnac:
I didn't support anybody to any one.
what am saying is that witch is also bad spirit that lives inside human and be cast out just like demon.

paxonel:

how about sorcery? do sorcery exist?
or can you distinguish between witchcraft, magic and sorcery?

denisbid:
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witchcraft, sorcery, magic, they are all the same thing, they all exist

Weah96:


Tax purposes, probably for wealthy family members who own businesses in the UK. The church is not enough.

He needs another tax free asset so that his family members can receive a deduction every time they make a donation to the school.

European taxes are notoriously HIGH, to say the least.

denisbid:

@iceflox,why. are you talking as if you are not African? we all see these things frequently, or don't you see them manifest in churches?