Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church Worldwide also known as Winners Chapel has alleged that Nigerian authorities are waging a war against Churches in the country in the guise of fighting COVID-19.
He said this was the reason why churches remained closed while markers are allowed to operate freely in the country according to health rules laid down by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19.
Oyedepo expressed his views on Sunday while giving a sermon on the lockdown situation imposed on most parts of the country by the Federal Government.
The head of Winners Chapel had kicked against the shutdown of religious Institutions in the country and insisted on Sunday that churches were not conduit centres for COVID-19.
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He said about 114 members of his Church have been healed of the virus which most people contract due to a lack of hand washing culture and no physical distancing.
Bishop Oyedepo declared Lagos and Ogun states free of COVID-19, he said however that the states have been infected with an anti-church virus in its place.
“What they want us to believe is that there is the evil of corona in the church. It’s the greatest lie ever told on the earth. The Church is God’s healing clinic, not where you gather sickness,” he said.
He healed me of Tuberculosis. Too many across the world delivered by the power of God. Is that where to shut down? This is no longer coronavirus, at least in two states, Lagos and Ogun. It’s now the anti-church virus.
“The gods of this world are behind it but there are human instruments that they engage. Can anybody silence the church? No! I’ve never heard of anybody God healed in the market. But we get healing in the church.
“We’ve recorded 114 coronavirus healings. We got 10 this week. But that’s the place being declared vulnerable, not the market. Zero social distancing in the market places. Under the same atmosphere, you can’t go to church.
“It’s a grand desire of the devil globally to silence the church. What they call coronavirus has suddenly become an anti-church virus, clean and clear, the market place is rocking, people are running over themselves.
“Nigeria’s coronavirus never goes to the market, it only goes to the church. Some merchants of evil are behind it. Churches that heal are shutdown. Markets, where you collect diseases, are open. Be waiting for God’s red-eye.”