Adeboye statement on opening churches everywhere is useless' - Cardinal Okogie (Details, pics)

Catholic Archdiocese of Lagos, Cardinal Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, has reacted to Pastor Adeboye's statement on opening churches everywhere in the country. According to the patriarch who described such branches as “mere business centres,”  there is no Godliness in the decision by some churches in the country to have as many branches as possible and planting churches in close proximity.

He said;“In order to bring us together and to get sanity back into this country, the fear of God must be number one. Nigerians of today don’t care a hoot about God.

For example, I heard that one of my colleagues, (Pastor Enoch) Adeboye, said that he would love to build churches everywhere so as to make it easy for worshipers to walk to them. But for me, that is a useless statement. How can you say you will build churches everywhere?

What kind of churches are you talking about? “Look at traffic in Lagos for example, and those who are pastors are traders and a good number of them are business men. Such churches in most cases are more like business houses! “Look at the number of churches springing up in Lagos. If the Muslims start building mosques like that, does it show that Nigeria is a religious country?

Every day we hear of killings and other things that we were not hearing before. “We can’t even walk on the streets freely. You have to be watching yourself left, right and centre to know who the man coming behind you.