Members of United Voice of Sabbath Churches of Nigeria (UVSCN)
in Anambra State, an umbrella body of Sabbath churches, have
disociated themselves from the woman recently accused of fetish
practices in Agulu, Anaocha council of the state.
The woman was reportedly caught by residents of the area making
incantations dressed in a white garment inside a shrine prohibited
to women in a manner akin to Sabbath worshippers’s style.
The residents had, on sighting her at the shrine, raised the
alarm, and youths in the area invaded her residence and reportedly
destroyed the fetish items discovered there.
But the church said the woman had no Sabbath identity.
Spokesman of the body, Rev Arinze Chukwuka, at a briefing, said,
“The general public should stop linking the woman with Sabbath
worship because she has no identity as a Sabbath observer nor
operate a Sabbath Church.
“I led a team of clergy assigned to investigate the incident
following a barrage of publications in social media and local radio
stations but after interrogating her, she confessed she is a
traditionalist not a Sabbatharian priest.
“The members of the public are warned that Sabbath Churches are
Sabbath observers who believe in the Ten Commandments of God and
everybody who reads the Bible knows that the first of the
Commandments is that people should not worship other gods in any
form like wooden images.
“The woman couldn’t have been a Sabbath observer because she
believes and worships wooden images as seen in her house.”
Members of United Voice of Sabbath Churches of Nigeria (UVSCN)
in Anambra State, an umbrella body of Sabbath churches, have
disociated themselves from the woman recently accused of fetish
practices in Agulu, Anaocha council of the state.
The woman was reportedly caught by residents of the area making
incantations dressed in a white garment inside a shrine prohibited
to women in a manner akin to Sabbath worshippers’s style.
The residents had, on sighting her at the shrine, raised the
alarm, and youths in the area invaded her residence and reportedly
destroyed the fetish items discovered there.
But the church said the woman had no Sabbath identity.
Spokesman of the body, Rev Arinze Chukwuka, at a briefing, said,
“The general public should stop linking the woman with Sabbath
worship because she has no identity as a Sabbath observer nor
operate a Sabbath Church.
“I led a team of clergy assigned to investigate the incident
following a barrage of publications in social media and local radio
stations but after interrogating her, she confessed she is a
traditionalist not a Sabbatharian priest.
“The members of the public are warned that Sabbath Churches are
Sabbath observers who believe in the Ten Commandments of God and
everybody who reads the Bible knows that the first of the
Commandments is that people should not worship other gods in any
form like wooden images.
“The woman couldn’t have been a Sabbath observer because she
believes and worships wooden images as seen in her house.”