Prophet Mbewe’s speaks against AstraZeneca vaccine: To tell Malawi worshippers not to take jabs, ‘believe in divine immunity’
The Freedom of Worship Association of Malawi (FOWAM) has written the government, expressing its concern and reservations over the government’s decision to go-ahead to roll out the administration of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in combating coronavirus disease (Covid-19).
The association, through a statement made available to Nyasa Times, argues that administering the vaccine amid concerns on its efficacy would be putting the lives of innocent Malawiamns at risk and people would rather believe in divine immunity.
The statement, which has been co-signed founder and overseer of the Living Word Evangelical Church (LIWEC), Prophet David Mbewe, as the president of the association and his public relations officer, Ras Jerafaya Geoffrey Phomea, warns that if authorities at the Capital Hill do not address their concerns, they will mobilize their faithful not to take the vaccine.
Mbewe and Phomea it is unfortunate that the government intends to roll out the mass Covid-19 vaccination before trials of the vaccine on human being has not been done in Malawi to ascertain its efficacy and side effects.
“It is our contention that this will be putting lives of innocent Malawians at a great risk. You may wish to note that even South Africa has had to suspend vaccination of its citizens following questionable efficacy to the Covid-19 variant prevalent in this southern region of Africa,” the statement reads.
“In light of the foregoing, we expect to hear from how you intend to address issues raised. If we do not hear from you promptly, we will be left with no choice, but to mobilize the faithful in Malawi not to receive the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine,” Mbewe and Phomea warn.
Minister of Health Khumbize Chiponda said government has engaged faith groups, traditional leaders, civil society organisations, the media and legislators in a sensitisation campaign on the safety of the vaccine.
Said the minister: “We are not against people discussing it or asking questions about the vaccine. People have to ask as many questions as they can, and we will happily address those questions. Our greatest concern is when lies are recklessly peddled against the vaccine.
“Many Malawians begin to believe these unfounded and negative messages and they are afraid. This vaccine is safe. We desperately need this vaccine to save lives. Our specialists and doctors are involved in the whole process.”
Chiponda emphasised that the vaccine is not compulsory, adding it is the responsibility of all stakeholders to urgently spread the success message on the vaccine to the masses and help to dismiss the unfounded theories making rounds.
In his national address on Sunday evening, President Lazarus Chakwera said the country will go ahead with acquiring the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, despite concerns about its efficacy.
Chakwera announced that Malawi has acquired 1.5 million doses and that additional ones were on the way to vaccinate a total of about four and a half million people.
He disclosed that Malawi settled for the AstraZeneca vaccine because it is the most affordable for the resource-constrained country.
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What an idiot and all believers are the same. Stop believing in tales and legends. God doesn’t exist. It is legend to control you and to take your money. Look at the luxuous life religious are living !
Listening to these prophets is at owners risk. Phukusi la moyo sasungirana. Uyo sakufuna vaccine zake izo. Beware of these false prophets. How many prophets have lost to Covid-19? Ndiye wina sakufuna vaccine. Basi zimwani annointing water wanuyo.
This is the stupidity of its highest order. Divine immunity, how do you prove that, and this is why people have lost confidence in these illiterate prophets who have not gone to school and can comment on issues of the nation without proper research. Listen, we have to be very careful with the way we treat people. In developed countries, this man would be taken to court to quantify the authenticity of the advice. What does it mean to believe in divine immunity? Even TB Joshua is encouraging people to go for tests and take vaccines. Malawians, let’s wake-up and standardized the minister of the gospel’s qualification that anyone reading a ministry and group of people over 100 should have a bachelor’s degree from a well-recognized institution. Let’s learn from Zambia they don’t tolerate such leaders whose education is only the Bible – how can you live like that. Mind you; the President is a very seasoned preacher and well educated. Let’s support him and have the nation vaccinated. We are tired of deads and funeral related to covid every day.
A malawi, kabayitseni ndithu ma jackson a hygragel., a lucifrense wo. Pitani ndithu akakubayieni katatu. Osangonja, Covid is real in your figment of your dumb imaginations because even the devil tony fauci and his girlfriend gates are not taking a vaccine. They take vitamins, they dont eat meat but hey amalawi kabayiseni ndithu. Ma coffin alipo kale
Stop lying. Anthony Fauci had his vaccine live on TV. You know what, keep your beliefs to yourself. As for all of us (the civilised) will get the vaccines. You’ve had vaccines in your life before without questions, why this one?
Malawian, it’s so simple if we read Hosea 4 v 6. Has the answer for this. My people are distroyed for luck of knowledge…
Those calling the Prophet fake, you are all the fakest. You are nameless that is using fake names needless to mention faceless. The Prophet has a face to his name.
Malawi has scientists? What have those scientists done in the wake of Covid 19? The so CALLED scientists are waiting for mzungu to instruct them what to do as if they did not go to school. Tukwaneni it is your prelogative! Covid ndi influenza at a higher level and fluenzayo ndi nthenda yakunoko yakalekale magogo akutero sopano ma scientist athuwo nthawi yonseyi osamaipezera medication, bwaaa? Musayerekeze kuwanenanso a Prophet a Dzonziwo ai…!
Stupid idiot
Both Mbewe and Chakwera are in the same whatsapp group of LIARS! Trust them at your own peril. They are empty tins with the loudest noise. They are only good for lunatics in christian churches.
stupid
Arrest these fake “prophets”.
The kwamtele government will procure the astrzenneca vaccine because is affordable. This shows that kwamtele is not caring life of Malawians. 5 years too long
People in the west will only be happy for you people to say no to the vaccine so that they can have enough to protect all their citizens without feeling guilty of not sending it to poor countries… Shows how controlling these so called prophets are in malawi.. They can tell their people not to take a vaccine and people would obey????
All i see here is misinformation, endless madness, miss directed anger and lack of mind clarity, most of the comments are without substance.
For you you who are saying why has SA banned this Vaccine is because Cov 19 is now a variant (am assuming you know the meaning), it has become variant because HIV preverence in SA and UK is higher than in most regions and the vaccine was made to tackle the previous Cov 19 generation, this variant may need another vaccine to boost the immune system for the body to produce stronger antigens to fight the new virus, for now it’s like running windows 98 on i7 dual core computer, it’s of no use.
The vaccine is there just to make sales, it won’t help anything in the body…. the variant will eat your body cells easier than you think, in short it is an outdated design meant to be cleared in their stock. those donating need to be scrutinized.
Am not a medic but research is very important than vomiting rubbish here, am not interested in what the Prophet did or did not do in his capacity or in the capacity of his Church or whatever. but truth be told. this vaccine is an outdated design.
even computer viruses need updates, if you don’t update, you know what happens.
True
You complete misunderstand what a new variant means. Viruses mutate all the time. It doesnt mean the original virus is completely gone. Some of the vaccines can still attack some of the variants. The virus mutates faster than the scientists make a vaccine but they can predict in some cases what the next mutation will look like and make the vaccine capable of attacking that variant. It is like hide and seek. The seeker can sometimes predict where the person is going to hide next by studying his pattern of chosing hiding places.
By variant i mean.. if someone has no HIV and has Cov 19 and he survives the virus and someone with HIV and has Cov 19 and the cov 19 in the patient with HIV survives and the survived virus enters the one without HIV it means the variant is stronger than the one he had before (mutate, mutation), the stronger virus (variant) simply means it can survive antigens from the weaker body, and more stronger antigen is needed. so the vaccine made in UK is sor the previous unmutated virus, giving the less powerful vaccine will not yield anything, that is why the new virus need more powerful vaccine. kaya zikumveka boss kaya.
those people on HIV doses have more stronger antigens to fight stronger viruses than those who are not on HIV doze, now from what i have explained, tell me do we need this vaccine or not? that’s what the prophet is saying to the Govt. that’s why South Africa has banned it, it is not a solution… you don’t run windows 98 on i7 computer generation, its madness.
I did not say the virus is gone mwazitenga pati izi ndiuzeni, antigens only fight viruses not to multiply, you cant kill kill an RNA just like you cant kill DNA, RNA strands in the virus still lives… where did i say you can kill the Cov 19 virus Boss?
I do not think insulting and calling each other names would help us on this subject, but let us discuss amicably. in my case, i think mr mbewes caution to the general public has No problem.
eti? moti tizipangana enlight, busy kunenana
Prophet Mbewe,are u a scientist??zinazi ku gifu a kitchuka basi mukanapola moto
Are you saying that he is a prophet of God who is happy to see people dying? Covid19 is real and is killing. if the vaccination will help let people take it.
I totally agree that this so called prophet must be arrested. How can the United Kingdom want to kill Malawians , for what ? The astrazeneca has been given to UK citizens about 12. million with no side effects at all.
Ndamva nanu chisoni amwene ngati south Africa amukana amene amukanawo ndi anthu kumalawiko ndiye sianthu uti aziyabaya emweyo chifukwa ngonchipa chibwana
Well what solution do you have my brother? Because our people will die. you imagine the situation in Malawi. … I am happy with vaccination, we have received vaccines in Malawi before and here we are grown up now. … mothers and fathers.
Tell the Malawian the solution please.
AstraZeneca sali bwino akugulitsidwa wa expire kale komanso bro 22 % effective kuno ku South Africa amubana
Pangani wanu.
Nkhani si expiry, nkhani ndiyoti ali bhobho koma sangathanize chilichonse mthupi
am assuming you know the difference…. but your comment bolako, zinazi eish
Bravo!
Well said my sister. These vaccines were just rushed in order to advance their own evil agendas.
Yes Prophet Mbewe is right, please do not take the poisonous and ineffective corona virus vaccines.
We African people and our governments are just being dragged into a slaughter house.
Much as I appreciate that people are losing their lives due to covid, but all the evil World Health Organisation, which is massively controlled and manipulated by Bill Gates has outlined as ways to combat the pandemic, is wrong.
The only solution, when people fall ill with the Corona virus, is to clear the sticky mucus from their lungs.
You cannot put a ventilator onto someone whose lungs are clogged with glue like mucus.
The treatment to covid is also to get the body moving, not staying in one place, but get active and mobile, while steaming, so that the mucus clears off the lungs, which subsequently helps the in flow of air into the lungs.
In short, Vitamin D, Vitamin C, steaming “kufungamira”, taking some antibiotics like Ivermectin or Doxycycline, even Chloroquine helps, and being mobile and active, and finally of course no isolation.
We are social being, and survive with the courage of others.
Putting someone away or in isolation is the first step to help them lose hope and subsequently their life.
So please do not listen to all the bull shit the World Health Organisation is telling us.
Africans we are blessed with plenty of sunshine and organic foods.
Let us all revert to the ways how our forebears lived, and desist from taking the Western generic medicines, which are intensively produced, for utmost profitability, especially for consumers in our continent.
Gwiritsani dzitsamba (mizu, makungwa, masamba etc).
Anthu akudafe chomwe chimatipha, ndi kumvera ndi kukhulupirira zonse zomwe azungu amanena.
Africa will truly be independent, prosperous and healthy the day we will all realise kuti azunguwa siyali mbali yathu, si abale athu, ndipo satifunira zabwino konse.
White people hate us with every intent and purpose, and we should not associate with them completely.
No links with the International Monetary Fund (lMF), United Nations ( UN), World Health Organisation ndiye satana weniweni, and all the international charitable organizations and globalist organisations.
Break away from them, and yearn to be totally independent of their purported aid, grants or loans.
They use all these traps and snares to subjugate us, and also to suppress our economic growth.
Wakumva wamva, koma ngati simukufuna kumva, mudzamva chinkwangwa chili mmutu posachedwapa.
fascinating that you are not aware that the WHO is an arm of the UN. Bill Gates is an individual and will never have an influence and control of any organ of the UN.
The vaccines are not being given away for free!!! No one is forcing any one to buy them! Get your facts right!
I do not understand how in this day and age you do not know that black people are their own worst enemies. Hastings kamuzu banda killed and tortured more Malawians than the colonial government, Robert Mugabe, Bokassa, Idi Amin, Emmerson Munangagwa, Gaddaffi the list is endless. All the thugs and thieves at the OAU aka AU. Mass murderers and looters who have no feelings for their subjects!
Look at the shambles this continent is in! We are dependent on aid from the white man. The very thugs we elect, steal the aid that the whiteman sends to alleviate the poverty and suffering of our people.
Respect those that decide to take the vaccine and also those that will not.
What has your association or your church done to the country in the fight against Covid 19? Any notable donation? Have you built any school, clinic or even a borehole? Did you formaly engage the presidential covid team to appreciate theirs and the countys challenges?What devine healing you insinuating? Why not just go to any Covid isolation centre and heal the patients. You are a joke!
You are stupid. Their concerns are all over the media and indeed they must be addressed here. We all need the vaccine but with extreme caution.
@Kwathu get the facts sikuti akukana kuti anthu asabayidwe koma akuti akuyenela kumuwunika bwino asanayambe kubaya anthu.
Musayiwale kuti ku RSA analandila wopanga expire komanso vaccine uyuyu akuti sakugwira against a new variant from RSA so its possible kuti it was procured be for the new variant.
Kumamvetsa nkhani musanayambe kutsutsa
Stupid fake prophet.. Put him in jail for spreading mis-information that is harmful to public health.
What has Mbewe got to offer as an alternative then? Is he hasn’t then he is not in a position to stop anyone from taking the vaccine. And he should present evidence that whatever he has is better that the one offered currently. Otherwise don’t mislead people in the name of church.
He’s got nothing to offer just like the many THIEVES in the name of prophets. May be he wants to continue fooling people into buying his stupid anointing water (nchape).
What an insult to the departed, the suffering and the medical community.
Hahahahahah, Corona has really disorganized these thieves big time!
As a Christian, I do not agree with this “prophet.” God has blessed us with scientist and doctors for a reason.
God is using these scientists (Angels) to heal the world.
I think it is our arguments that are wrong in one way or another. poverty shouldn’t make use procure wrong things but the importance of the activity. Yes, we should dispel wrong information but of utmost importance is the safety of our people. Be considerate, please. Continue engaging the experts and that is the way to go
our dear prophets, you can do a better job by praying for the virus to go. The Bible has evidence where Jesus used medicines to heal the sick. Don’t mislead us. We know your livelihood depends on our offerings
People could prefer to listen to Chiefs and Muluzu and Peter than you Tonsealayansi.
Ngati inu prophet bwanji simunanepo zoti kudzabwera mankhawala osagwira ntchito pa virus imeneyi. To haul with fake prophets. Kumangokawa ndalama za anthu basi.
Trials in Malawi? Do these people know the process of making vaccines and the reason we are giving them?
Not by power or might but the sprit of God.Cool down ma prophet as you well know that you do not command the entire religious churches in the country.Yours is a drop in the ocean.If you want your flocks to perish because of your opinion it is ok but for us we will listen to government.
Stupid prophets
A prophet thawi yonseyi mwabitsala pamene khosa zanu zikupululuka ndi Covid 19 , Madzi , m mchere , mafuta aja mumatipaka kuti tilandile udalitso pano munatithawa nanutso mwabitsala , palibe ndimumodzi mwainu kupita ku chipatala ngakhale kuyima pa gate la Chipatala kulalika ndi kuchidza matenda , ili ndibvumbulutso kuti tili ndi ma propheti achinyengo obela anthu mudzina la Namalenga , musapitilire kuphetsa anthu , zida zanu zalephera
but SA has halted the administration of this vaccine why us ???
Chiponda kandodo should account for the indepedence celebration money and kapondamgaga should account for the cross roads hotel money. Nkaka and Chimwendo Banda are all over stealing while Chakwera is busy recruting his inlaws at state house to form stealing syndicate. Zangazanga Chikhosi is busy creating positions for people like Bendulo who even do not have qualifications yet they are placed as bosses of people will degrees and masters. Something very stupid is happening in the civil service while everybody is watching. I urge the civil service trade union to mobilise workers to strike until all these positions that Chikhosi is giving to party cronie are advertised and competed for. The civil service is underperforming because of such stupid recruitment.
nkhani yake yomweyi ya prophet mbewe?
Another fully grown prophet, barking, barking, barking and barking some more….for nothing!
You dont want the vaccine, dont take it nobody will even bother you with it. All this attention seeking for what?
Let your silly followers refuse the vaccine. Where is Malawi going? These so called useless “profits” are not qualified to be making noise on things they don’t understand. We have medical people qualified to advise on these issues.
Mupwetekesa anthu osalakwa
Please arrest this idiot!! I hate religious zealots that try to fight empirically proven science. The kind of idiots that tell people to skip their ARV or cancer treatment. This should be a matter left to scientist. At this point even if they switch to another antivirus people will be skeptical. It is irresponsible behaviour by these briefcase churches. You will never hear such nonsense from our great mother religions. When did Mbewe become an expert on medicine?
Mbewe must be arrested. he is a dangerous man. Don’t behave like Magufuli, so many people are dying of Covid-19 in Tanzania, but they are not recorded. Unfortunately, Tanzania’s opposition is almost non-existent like ours. Even if it existed there is no freedom of the press because Magufuli threatened with lawsuit or shut down any media outlets that reports about Covid-19 in the country. Mbewe you are a dangerous pastor.
Ena tikumufuna ndipo akuchedwa kubwera. Awa safuna musawawumilize azivala ma mask.
Chitsilu mbuzi ingotseka chikamwa chachikulucho.
Government, please arrest fools like these spreading fake news.
I wish covid got this moron.
Za COVID-19 vaccine zikalowa tchalitchi, siziyenda. Let Government do its job. Everyone in Malawi is religious in one way or the other.
You were supposed to advise Government in early 2019 that COVID-19 is coming. You’re not too late, tell the nation when this pandemic is going to an end. Do you know either?
Why too much when you can’t even contribute or join Government to fight the virus?
Mobilize your members not to receive? Whose problem will that be?
I would say listening to your organisation, FOWAM alone is putting lives of Malawians at risk. Let the govt listen to doctors and scientists and you continue with your fake prophecies.
Touch not the annointed of God. You are inviting curses
There is only one Prophet who speaks to God on our behalf thus Jesus. All these self acclaimed prophets are just priests just like any Christian who believes in Christ and follows Him. Some amongst us are false prophets-gnostics that you need to test 1Jn.4:1.
Stupid threat from an idiot, of he is anointed let him confront covid-19, this is the time all stupid prophets can prove their worth, not barking silly
Pezani mankwalatu inuyo oasmangotenga chopeleka spa talotani mankhwala anzanu apezatu katemera….inu koma cha mbale basi ife tibayisa
With you all the way Honourable Minister. Surely the population should ask pertinent questions and voice it’s concerns regarding the planned vaccines and vaccination drive. But those who do not understand even the basic principles of how vaccines are developed to make them usable in humans should rather seek to understand this rather than poison the minds of potential beneficiaries with half truths or total lies arising from their limited understanding of the science involved. For instance, if the writer of the article above has quoted the Mbewe group communication to government correctly, then some critical facts have been distorted. Given, I am making this comment before reading the communication from the purported writers. Could the reporter kindly share a copy of the communication in reference to enhance our understanding of what the grouping is seeking to communicate.
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Pastors should stick to their job. People are dying and need the vaccine, even if it gave them 10% chance. That’s better than nothing.