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ENOCH Adeboye, general overseer, Redeemed Christian Church of God, has said Africa may not have money or resources to fight the monstrous COVID-19 pandemic but its citizens have God.
Adeboye said that having God is enough to protect the citizens from the pandemic.
The general overseer stated this on Sunday, January 3, at the Special Thanksgiving Service and Ground-Breaking Ceremony of the Coastline Worship Centre of the Redeemed Church of God National Headquarters, Throne of Grace, Ebutte-Metta, Lagos.
Reacting to Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft’s, statement that he was yet to understand why COVID-19 cases and fatalities still remain low in Africa, Adeboye said: “When I read that it will take 10 years to vaccinate people in the U.S., I wonder when the vaccine will come to Nigeria. We have no money; we have no resources, but we have God. They expected us to be dying like flies, but we have a God who says he that dwells in the secret place will be under the shadow of the almighty.”
In his 2021 prophecy, Adeboye said God told him that the world has not learned its lesson.
“It is the God that reigns and rules in the affairs of men and the world must recognise his lordship in all that they do,” he said.
According to him, the world would defeat coronavirus by depending on divine wisdom and not science.
He assured Christian faithful that “any calamity that comes, we will survive”.
Realnews recalls that in an April 10, 2020, in an interview with Cable News Network, CNN, Melinda Gates, American philanthropist, expressed her belief that the coronavirus pandemic will have the worst impact in the developing world. She said she foresees millions of dead bodies lying around in the street of African countries.
Apart from Gates prophesy of doom for Africa, a report released by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, UNECA, in April 2020, stated: “Anywhere between 300,000 and 3.3 million African people could lose their lives as a direct result of COVID-19.”Also, Antonio Guterres, United Nations secretary-general, warned that millions of people could be pushed into extreme poverty in Africa due to the coronavirus pandemic and called for “global solidarity” with the continent.
“The pandemic threatens African progress. It will aggravate long-standing inequalities and heighten hunger, malnutrition and vulnerability to disease,” Guterres said in a statement accompanying the UN study with recommendations for the African continent last year.
Realnews reports that as at January African Union member States (55) reporting COVID-19 cases total 2,830462; deaths stood at 67,246 while recoveries are 2,343,850.
– with reports from The Nation/AlJazeera/AFP
– Jan. 4, 2021 @ 1:23 GMT |
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