{"id":714788,"date":"2019-10-02T12:17:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T12:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/02\/pastor-beaten-by-traditional-worshippers-for-disobedience-in-edo\/"},"modified":"2019-10-02T12:17:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T12:17:01","slug":"pastor-beaten-by-traditional-worshippers-for-disobedience-in-edo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/02\/pastor-beaten-by-traditional-worshippers-for-disobedience-in-edo\/","title":{"rendered":"Pastor Beaten By Traditional Worshippers For Disobedience In Edo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_705587\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-705587\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-705587 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/church-building-600x338.png\" alt=\"Church\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-705587\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Church<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The general overseer of the City of God Rest Bible Ministry, Pastor Destiny Eguaveon, was severely beaten by traditional worshippers for disobeying community order.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the pastor was reportedly told not to hold service beyond 8am as a part of the annual Ikpoleki festival.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Pastor, Masquerade Go Eyeball-To-Eyeball During Evangelism In Market Place (VIDEO)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The order was said to have been given by the chief priest of the community.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the video below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B3EX4qbHZ4R\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B3EX4qbHZ4R\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;\" target=\"_blank\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-top: 8px;\">\n<p> View this post on Instagram<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/a> <\/p>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> Traditional worshippers severely beat pastor for disobeying their order . . Pastor Destiny Eguavoen, the G.O of the City of God Rest Ministry, was on Sunday beaten up by youth of Urora, #EdoState, for flouting the community\u2019s order to stop church service before 8am because of the annual Ikpoleki festival . . According to TheNation, the Chief Priest of the community, Chief Ugiagbe Aiwaguore, had ordered everyone to stay indoors for the festival. . . All churches were asked to end their sunday service before 8am, but Pastor Eguavoen flouted the order, prompting the youth to storm his church and beat him. \ud83d\udcf9\ud83d\udcf9: ITV<\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A post shared by  Instablog9ja (@instablog9ja) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2019-10-01T08:09:24+00:00\">Oct 1, 2019 at 1:09am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Church The general overseer of the City of God Rest Bible Ministry, Pastor Destiny Eguaveon, was severely beaten by traditional worshippers for disobeying community order. According to reports, the pastor was reportedly told not to hold service beyond 8am as a part of the annual Ikpoleki festival. Read Also:\u00a0Pastor, Masquerade Go Eyeball-To-Eyeball During Evangelism In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":702461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pastor Beaten By Traditional Worshippers For Disobedience In Edo - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/02\/pastor-beaten-by-traditional-worshippers-for-disobedience-in-edo\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Pastor Beaten By Traditional Worshippers For Disobedience In Edo - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Church The general overseer of the City of God Rest Bible Ministry, Pastor Destiny Eguaveon, was severely beaten by traditional worshippers for disobeying community order. 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