Gospel songstress, Evangelist Diana Asamoah, has condemned the laying of corpses in church.
According to her, the act makes the church a haven for unclean spirits and ghosts.
Speaking in an interview on the Max Morning show in Accra on Friday, the “Akoko Abon” hitmaker stated that God does not condone the act of corpses being laid in church and expressed the need for men of God to desist from the act.
Narrating her experience in a church where corpses were regularly laid out for the final funeral service, she indicated that she was sleeping in Kumasi Calvary Methodist Church, but she could not wink an eye as she felt the presence of some unclean spirits and ghosts in the church.
“I was thrown out of where I used to live because I chose to go to church on Sundays instead of selling plantains and ‘Kontomire’. I packed my stuff and went to my father’s brother in Kumasi, but the man refused to take me in since my father made me stay with a different person.”
“I had nowhere to go, so I decided to live in that place by hook or crook. I placed my bags in the room of a certain old woman, and every night I went to Calvary Methodist Church in order to sleep. However, there was security guarding the place.”
“I then have to come up with an excuse that I am there to pray. If I go inside the church late at night, I can feel the real presence of people, while physically I am the only one in the church. This evoked a fear reaction in me, so I stayed awake overnight to prevent myself from having nightmares or panic attacks,” she narrated.
Diana Asamoah therefore believed that the souls of those whose bodies were brought to the temple remained in the place, and she cautioned that the act should not be entertained.
She noted that the word of God did not condone such an act; “for this reason, when Ananias and Sapphira died, immediately their remains were conveyed away.”
Source: Ghana/MaxTV/MaxFM/max.com.gh/Joyceline Natally Cudjoe
