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Spiritual Leaders Should Stop Telling People To Stay In Abusive Relationships— Rev. Adejumo

Nigerian preacher and marriage counsellor, Reverend Funke Felix-Adejumo, has advised people to run away from abusive relationships and marriages.

The cleric said this during a live session on Instagram while reacting to the death of popular gospel musician, Osinachi Nwachukwu.

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There have been speculations that the gospel singer had been on life support for about two months due to domestic violence.

Adejumo, while reacting to the news of Osinachi’s death, said that one should not die in an abusive relationship.

She said “Marriage is not what completes you as a person. There may be pastors and imams that will disagree but it does not matter.

“Woman you are not inferior to anybody. Don’t think that marriage is all that makes you. Please understand that you are important with or without marriage. Don’t die in an abusive relationship.”

She also urged those who have spiritual authority over people to stop telling them to stay in abusive relationships.

“I’ve been a pastor’s wife for 33 years. I want to say this to those of you that are privileged to have spiritual authority over people, please stop telling them to stay in abusive relationships and be praying. If they were your blood relatives, would you tell them to stay there?

“How can you as a pastor and someone tells you that ‘my husband is beating me, my wife has brought out a knife’ and you tell the person to stay there, we will be praying for you. God can never hear that kind of prayer. That is an abuse of power.”

 

 

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