ABUJA- The Primate, Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), Archbishop Peter Akinola has urged Christians to “resist any anti-God movements’’.
Akinola gave the advice at the Service of confirmation and admission of candidates
into the Women’s Guild and Mothers Union at the St Matthew’s Church Maitama, Abuja.
The service is usually conducted for married women, who pledged to maintain Christian virtues in their homes and public places.
“ The western world, for example, has more or less decided to remove God from the public domain so they make legislation to throw God out of the scheme of things.
“You are aware that it is now permissible in the Western World for a man to marry a man and a woman to marry a woman and that is over and against God’s own decree,” he said.
He cited an instance of a U.S, civil liberties group whose campaigns are targeted at deleting God’s name in schools or public place.
“They do that in the name of making American a free country,” he said. Akinola recounted how the efforts to relegate God to the background had changed the meaning of messages at Christian festivals such as Easter and Christmas.
He also appealed to the media: “ to see in between lines; to see beyond what is going on”. “It is not ordinary. It is a serious campaign against the Church.”
The confirmation service featured laying of hands and impartation of the Holy Spirit with people who publicly declared their rejection of evil, in accordance with the Anglican dogma.
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