Church leaders cautioned on spiritual healing as Malawi pastor charged for raping 19-yr-old girl during deliverance

Church leaders in Ntcheu district have been cautioned on spiritual healing, a trending phenomenon that is discouraging people from taking medical drugs.

Bishop Litchapa: Stop discouraging people from taking medical drugs
Bishop Litchapa: Stop discouraging people from taking medical drugs
Some religious leaders  during the training
Some religious leaders during the training

Bishop Moffati Litchapa, chairperson of the district’s Interfaith Aids Committee (DIAC), said the development was “causing a lot of health complications.”

He said during a two-day workshop on medication and spiritual healing that faith has “nothing to do with the immune system” at all.

According to Litchapa, the situation is one of the propellers of a worrisome number of antiretroviral drugs defaulters the district continues to register lately.

Ntcheu is one of the most hit by HIV, with the current prevalence rate pegged at 9 per cent.

“Whether someone gets healed by faith or not, church leaders are not supposed to tell anyone to stop medication,” advised Litchapa.

Group Village Headman Dzoole also corroborated Litchapa’s sentiments, opining that “workshops like these can help combat the problem to a greater extent.”

In Malawi, like elsewhere in Africa, healing is central to Pentecostalism, a radical belief in the power of prayer and miracles.

The workshop, organized with funding from the Malawi Interfaith Aids Association (MIAA), brought together religious, traditional and health officers among others.

MIAA is implementing a ‘promoting access to drugs and medication’ project in Ntcheu and Salima districts with funding from the Norwegian Church Aid.

Prayer for sex

Meanwhile, founder of Evangelical Church located in Lilongwe, Reverend Justin Katsala, has been charged by Lilongwe Magistrates’ Court for allegedly sexually abusing   a 19 years-old girl.

Confirming the development, Lilongwe Police Station Spokesperson, Inspector Kingsley Dandaula, said the incidence happened on Friday, November, 20, 2015, when the victim had gone for prayers and deliverance at Reverend Katsala’s house.

“The victim and her other friend had gone for prayers at the Reverend’s house at CCDC location.

“Reverend Katsala prayed with both girls for a few minutes and then he asked the other girl to go outside and wait for her friend. When her friend went outside, Katsala took the victim to his bedroom where he told her to undress and to lie down.

The Reverend then came on top of the girl and told her to sing hymns while he was raping her,” Dandaula said.

The police spokesperson continued that after raping the girl, the Reverend asked the girl to have some food before leaving his house but the girl refused and went outside the house where her friend was waiting.

“She told her friend about the ordeal and together, they went to report at Kawale Police who gave the girl a report and rushed to the hospital where it was confirmed that she was indeed raped. Kawale Police went and arrested him,” said the Police Publicist.

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Praise
Praise
8 years ago

Aneneli onyenga

Chisomo
Chisomo
8 years ago

To hell with this man.

victor kanchisi
victor kanchisi
8 years ago

Palibe nkhani apa. Mtsikana anakula uyu. Amafunika pastor amupange ndithu

Nazimbiri
Nazimbiri
8 years ago

isaaaaa mpaka chorus, munthu wa Mulungu watoonjeza abale.naye msikana akatofuna kuti amunyowetse basi.ogwira ncthito mnyumba,amatodyibwa ndi abwana,naye
wa malilime amatothana ndi go dipa man of God kkklkkk moyo ndi mpamba shaaaaa
John yeve sayonda kkkkkk

Mirella K
Mirella K
8 years ago

Hymns as you ‘enter’ your member into the loins of a poor girl? You hypocrites! If this was a Muslim, we could have heard this everywhere, including BBC!

madiru mhango
madiru mhango
8 years ago

Pastorhood is nowadays just a career choice like law,medicine,etc. Never assume The Lord has called them otherwise the inspired word would not be warning us of false teachers. This was rape. The priest used his fiduciary position to suppress the girl’s anticipated no by directing her to sing a hymn instead. Why did he not offer the food when the victim’s friend was present? This offer can only be seen as

Khemuche
8 years ago

Female beings are brainless ndithu. They rarely see it comming. They neither have hindsight nor insight nor foresight nor farsight. Please release the innocent pastor. Stupid girls above 18yrs must be fucked hard kumene.

noreply
noreply
8 years ago

Ok

patrick
patrick
8 years ago

What a story! Do the facts add-up? This was just set up probably humiliate the ‘man of god’

Nyapapi
Nyapapi
8 years ago

Anaifunitsitsa msungwanayu. palibepo rape apa. But woe to the ‘pastor’ commiting adultery in the name of God. Shame on you

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