Police in Ghana have warned faith leaders against making traditional New Year prophecies which can cause fear, anxiety or death. The right of freedom of worship must not violate the rights of others, the police said in a statement. Critics say the order violates the constitutional right for freedom of religion and it is therefore illegal. Millions of Christians often gather in churches to hear their pastors make proclamations about the new year. The messages often range from optimistic projections to those warning of impending doom. The police order came into force last year after the public was inundated by predictions of deaths and calamity, local news site My Joy Online reported. In a statement, the police commended religious groups for their "cooperation" and for "adopting legally acceptable means for communicating prophecies". But Ghanaian lawyer Sammy Darko said the police order was "illegal." "It is not even up for debate or interpretation by the highest court of Ghana. No law in Ghana grants the police administration any powers to regulate prophecies in the country," he wrote. "Religious freedom is more than the 'freedom to worship' at a synagogue, church, or mosque. It means people shouldn't have to go against their core values and beliefs in order to conform to culture or government unless it violates a specific law," he added. Mr Darko told the BBC that the police lost a case earlier this year against a pastor who had been charged for allegedly making an alarmist prophesy about a celebrity musician being shot. "This was significant," he said. The police said they had adopted 27 December as Prophecy Communication Compliance Day. "This day is being set aside to remind all of us to practice our faith within the confines of the law to ensure safe, secure environment, free of anxiety generated from predictions of impending harm, danger or death," the statement said.
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Someone would just cook up a FAKE prophecy in his mind and say
that that is what will happen. No be harmful prophecy be that

We really need this in Nigeria, Some of those "prophesies" are misleading and confusing

Is not about the Yahoo yahoo pastors, is about the people whom
believed about the out come

Excellent!
I believe that anyone whoever claimed to have supernatural ability to prophesy future events or to be able to talk to God is a false prophet. This applies equally to the prophets of the Bible and the false prophets of modern times.
They're good for profit. Check out all these scummy mega churches, and even the $$$ being made by the actual Jesus crowd, Catholic and the like. Religion is big business, and tax-free in America! All prophets are false.

The very idea that one person can speak for god is just totally ridiculous. Why can’t this god speak for itself? Doesn’t this god have any lips?

Wagwanbrethren:
Excellent!

The doom prophecies were too much and too scary

Harmful because they lie in the name of God, unforgivable sin!

Every year they tell us to repent, the world is ending... They make us
fear and stop enjoying life... Very stupid prophets

Wiseandtrue:
Na those wey make prophecies wey no come through them suppose to ban!

No 'prophecy' ever came true! (@_@)

A prophecy is nothing more than a prediction. Predictions are real, in that, anyone can actually make a prediction. Asserting something will happen is a REAL assertion. But the fulfillment of that assertion, in terms of “prophecy” is NOT real. Any correct assertion is just happenstance or twisting what happened to “fit” into a re-interpretation of the prediction. It’s b.s.every time. Especially when it involves religious prophecy! ಠ∀ಠ