The Advocacy for
Alleged Witches (AFAW) has challenged Apostle Johnson Suleman of the Omega Fire
Ministries, Auchi, Edo State, to heal anyone with a confirmed case of COVID-19
and get a thousand US dollars from the group.
Recall that YAW had
on Sunday attacked Suleman for demanding that government should allow pastors
into isolation centers to pray and heal COVID-19 patients.
The group remains
saddened by Suleman’s message to the President Muhammadu Buhari’s government,
to allow pastors to heal COVID-19 patients.
In an article made
available by the founder of the Nigerian Humanist Movement, Leo
Igwe, on Tuesday, the group it is challenging Suleman to heal, not two or three
persons, not ten or fifteen patients but just one person with the viral
infection.
He added, “I am
challenging the founder of Omega Ministries, Apostle Suleman to demonstrate his
so-called gift of healing under agreed medical and scientific conditions.
“I ask Suleman to
heal a person with a confirmed case of COVID-19 and get a thousand US dollars.
This challenge has become necessary because Apostle Suleman has in a recent
video, urged the government of Nigeria to allow him and other pastors with the
gift of healing into the isolation centers so that they could pray and heal
those who have been infected by the virus.
“This request should
not go unattended. Suleman specifically said that the gifted pastors could heal
18 out of 20 COVID-19 patients. This is a reasonable number. Isn’t it?
“And in a recent
tweet, Apostle Suleman affirmed that (his) God was bigger than the Coronavirus.
This challenge is for Suleman to heal, not 2 or 3 persons, not 10 or 15
patients but one person with a viral infection.
“For too long,
people from various religious traditions have claimed to have the ability to
heal all kinds of diseases, including malaria, diabetes, hepatitis, and
HIV/AIDS. Self-acclaimed godmen and women have organized healing/prayer
sessions where they supposedly got rid of illnesses through faith and prayers.
This ability, if proven to be effective, could be an enormous resource at a
time like this when the world is trying to contain a vicious pandemic, that is
ravaging many parts of the world.
“Incidentally, faith
healing in Africa has largely been taken for granted. Faith healing claims have
gone unchallenged and untested. There has not been any major effort to hold
African faith healers to account or get them to openly and publicly demonstrate
the potency and efficacy of their healing propositions under scientific testing
conditions. The outbreak of COVID-19 offers an ample opportunity to realize
this – to test and confirm the much-avowed healing gifts and abilities of
pastors.
“So I hereby
challenge Apostle Suleman to prove that he can heal COVID-19 patients through
prayer. Apostle Suleman will get one thousand US dollars for any proven case of
faith healing of a COVID-19 patient under agreed scientific conditions.
“Suleman should
agree to pray for a COVID-19 patient from wherever he is since going into the
isolation centers without face masks and personal protective equipment is not
medically permitted and would violate existing laws and regulations.
“After all, Jesus
performed miracles at a distance (John 4: 46-54). Didn’t he? And also, the
Bible enjoins believers to pray in secret, and that the prayers would be
answered (Matthew 6:6).
“So it is not
necessary for Apostle Suleman or any gifted pastor to get into the isolation
centers before they could pray and heal any COVID-19 patient.
“Besides, Suleman
should consider this a standing challenge, which he could accept after the
vaccine has been discovered and regulations on managing COVID-19 infection have
been relaxed.
“Otherwise, I
challenge Apostle Suleman to heal an HIV/AIDS patient through prayer and take
home a thousand US dollars.
“HIV is another
viral infection that is killing many people in Nigeria and across the world.
Apostle Suleman should use this window to demonstrate under medical and
scientific conditions his supernatural gift of healing.
“He should show
Nigerians and the rest of the world that his God is truly bigger than a virus,
whether it is COVID-19 or HIV. I hope that Apostle Suleman or any other gifted
pastor accepts this challenge and seizes this opportunity to demonstrate the
potency and efficacy of faith healing.”
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