Resurrecting the dead, profiting from the pulpit - time to revamp regulation around churches

"Prophet" Lukau of Alleluia International Church claims to have resurrected a man from the dead. It is a load of nonsense. One gets the feeling that there is a race amongst some modern-day prophets to outdo each other on the dandiest miracle.

Prior to this incident, some followers were sprayed with Doom, others were made to eat rats, snakes and at one point one of the charlatans claimed to have gone to heaven and met Jesus. I saw a clip of another one claiming to be talking to God on a cellphone. The idiot should have put God on the public address system. I mean he was pacing about addressing God as “Papa God”.

In Botswana, we have had our own share of extraordinary claims.  In Maun, three men were accused of rape after one preacher led an unsuspecting girl to a veldt and told her that the only way to heal her of her womb problem was for him to ejaculate in her and destroy tokoloshi eggs troubling her. Two other accomplices, we are told, joined in raping the poor girl.  Some people have been made to take money illegally from their workplaces for miraculous multiplication only for the so-called prophets to disappear into thin air. Thugs. The whole lot of them.

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