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The Church of Pentecost (COP) has declared a three-day fasting and prayer session for all members starting on November 10, 2022. The Church’s Executive Council arrived at the decision in the wake of economic hardship being experienced in the country. “It is apparent that the country for some time now has been going through some economic challenges which threaten the peace and security of the nation. “The church in times like this has a divine responsibility to intercede for the nation,” he said. Addressing the congregation on Sunday, the Chairman of COP, Apostle Eric Nyamekye told the members to adhere…

Hundreds of people have turned up to join TV fitness coach Joe Wicks on a walking event for BBC Children in Need. Wicks invited families to Walk with Joe around a parkrun route in Maidenhead, Berkshire, for the first of four events. He will also be visiting Newport on Sunday and Camperdown, Dundee and Rushcliffe, Nottingham, next weekend. Wicks has also pledged to walk 30 miles in an ultra-marathon challenge for the charity on Friday 18 November. The fitness coach rose to fame with his online workouts during the Covid-19 pandemic and was awarded an MBE for his work. He…

Some Minority Members of Parliament have asked their New Patriotic Party (NPP) counterparts to name the wealthy businessman who allegedly tried to persuade them to soften their stance against Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta. The NDC MPs are; Ashiaman MP, Ernest Norgbey, Cape Coast South MP, Kweku Ricketts Hagan and Buem MP, Kofi Adams. According to the MPs, this will enable the public to know that the NPP MPs are not lying. “If it is true, we want to know the businessman… people must be interested so they should tell us because this is a serious matter. “A matter to do…

One of the daughters of President Akufo-Addo says she was not paid $25 million to paint parts of Accra. Ms. Gyankroma Akufo-Addo said such allegations are completely false. According to her, the projects were privately conceived and funded, contrary to claims being speculated. She blamed some “shameless persons” as being behind the speculation. “For the avoidance of any doubt, it is important to state that these projects were solely conceived, managed, and financially undertaken by The Creative Arts Agency, through its own fundraising activities.” It is a complete fabrication being propagated by some shameless persons, and which, unfortunately, has been…

The Church of Pentecost has built an Inmates Skills Acquisition and Reformation Centre at Nsawam in the Eastern Region of Ghana as a move to reform prisoners to become useful and integrate them into society. The 320 capacity fully-furnished facility, which was handed over to the Ghana Prisons Service at a ceremony at Ahodwo in the Nsawam-Adoagyire Municipality today Saturday, October 22, 2022, has four dormitories, an infirmary, a visitors lounge with a shop, a fully furnished administration block with auxiliary offices, an ICT lab with computers and accessories, a tailoring workshop, a carpentry workshop, a chapel fully furnished with…

Ghana’s religious leaders are directing their members with immediate effect, to wear red armbands to protest destruction of the environment by persons engaged in illegal mining activities. The Religious Leaders in Ghana say they are “deeply concerned about the devastation that illegal mining (galamsey) has caused and continue to cause our nation, and the associate negative health and socio-economic effects on our country now and in the future.” Religious Leaders in Ghana comprises various religious groups including the Christian Council of Ghana, Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference, Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council, Office of the National Chief Imam and Ahmadiyya Muslim…

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has re-asserted his determination to build the National Cathedral. He said the national cathedral project was something dear to his government, stressing that it will be built at all cost to the glory and honour of God. The President made the statement when he joined the family and friends of Dr. Joseph Siaw Agyepong at his late father’s Service of Thanksgiving on Sunday at the Pentecost International Worship Centre (PIWC), Graceland Teshie Nungua in Accra. While commiserating with Dr. Agyepong and his family for their loss during this difficult moment, the President encouraged him to…

A young Chinese woman allegedly quit her job of five years after being disappointed that only one of the seventy coworkers she invited to her wedding actually attended. Chinese news outlet ETtoday recently featured the unusual story of a young woman who took to social media to complain about being humiliated by her coworkers on the happiest day of her life. The unknown woman had reportedly been working for the same company for five years and felt that she had a good relationship with her coworkers. She had attended the weddings of a third of her 70 colleagues, so when she decided…

A 15-year-old girl has come up with a bizarre way of proving her love to her HIV-positive boyfriend – injecting herself with his blood. The unnamed girl is said to have injected herself with her boyfriend’s blood, knowing full well that he was HIV-positive. The news which broke last week has thrown the entire nation in shock. The teenager allegedly hails from Suwal Kuchchi, a village in Assam, India. She and her boyfriend had been together for about three years, after originally meeting on Facebook. The HIV-positive boy, from the town of Hajo, had tried to elope with his beloved…

A South Korean civil court recently ordered a 31-year-old man to pay his ex-girlfriend 1.5 million won ($1,150) as damages for urinating in her designer handbag. This bizarre story dates back to last October, when the defendant in this case, a 31-year-old man from Seoul, South Korea, whose identity has not been revealed, for privacy purposes, allegedly got into an argument with his girlfriend at the time. The two were at the girlfriend’s house in Gangnam-gu, and somehow started fighting about the amounts of money the woman was spending and the debts she was racking up. At one point, the…