Abuja, 05 February, 2022 / 3:00 pm (ACI Africa).
A Catholic Archbishop in Nigeria has cautioned religious leaders in the West African country against “prophesying electoral victory” and instead stand up for citizens’ rights.
In his homily at St. James Dawaki Parish of Nigeria’s Abuja Archdiocese, Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama urged faith leaders in the country to emulate Prophet Jeremiah who chose to “tell truth to power” even when he faced opposition.
“Religious leaders must resist the temptation to do influential people’s bidding by prophesying electoral victory or massaging their worldly ego and during public religious gatherings,” Archbishop Kaigama said during the Sunday, January 30 Eucharistic celebration.
Serious religious leaders, Local Ordinary of Abuja Archdiocese added, ought to “arrogate to themselves prophetic political certitude by such distracting predictions, when they should be only concerned with issues of moral regeneration of lives and the constant call to spiritual decency.”
According to the Nigerian Archbishop, many religious leaders in Africa’s most populous nation are not only preaching prosperity and miracles, but they have also dabbled into political forecasting in the name of divine prophecy.
