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  • Lawrence Tetteh Ministries: National prayer and healing rally set to begin on May 1

    Lawrence Tetteh Ministries: National prayer and healing rally set to begin on May 1

    A 31-day non-denominational national prayer rally has been started by the Worldwide Miracle Outreach and the Lawrence Tetteh Ministries.

    The prayer rally aims at seeking the face of God to curb the rising indiscipline and ills afflicting the nation.

    The event will take place from, May 1, 2023 to, May 31, 2023 at Miracle Center, Christian Village in Accra at 6am to 8am daily.

    The month-long programme aims to bring together religious leaders and worshippers to pray to address every evil agenda designed to undermine the economic and socio-political development of the nation and the well-being of Ghanaians as a whole.

    Addressing the media in Accra, the President of Worldwide Miracle Outreach (WMO) and the Lawrence Tetteh Ministries (LTM), Reverend Dr Lawrence Tetteh reiterated that Ghana had been overwhelmed with challenges that undermine socio-economic progress and development.

    He said for Ghana to succeed, wrong must be seen as wrong and not politicized. He said corruption must not be condoned at any level within the society.

    He called for the protection of water bodies from the harmful effects of galamsey and urged Ghanaians to strive to create a better environment for the next generation.

    Reverend Dr Lawrence Tetteh mentioned that the approach must be resolute and purposeful as the nation cry unto the Lord to lead the country out of its current economic woes.

    Dr Lawrence Tetteh in his speech said “as a nation we need we need the hand of God like never before”.

    He called on political leaders to seek the face of God by joining hands with the church to pray for divine intervention. He said, a country without a spiritual voice is doomed.

    He called for a change in the mindset of people.

    He said the NDC and NPP have not helped to promote the national agenda while attitudes of Ghanaians towards building the nation has been based on selfish desires and wrong motives. For that matter “this nonsense must stop” he added.

    He urged politicians to be very circumspect in verbal attacks on the church and the religious leadership as a whole stemming from the misdeeds of some errant members of the Religious community.

    Reverend Dr Lawrence Tetteh appealed to media houses to dedicate a lot more airtime in discussing issues pertaining to moral and ethical development of people with emphasis on the youth who are the future leaders of the country.

    He called on the need to educate, encourage and empower the youth positively with Godly values and civic responsibilities for a better Ghana.

    He called on Ghanaian to continue to pray for the nation and our leaders to be humbled and prayerful as the word of God admonishes.

    The non-denominational prayer festival is on the theme: “This nonsense must stop”. The event will take place from, May 1, to May 31, 2023 at Miracle Center, Christian Village in Accra at 6am to 8am daily.

  • 600 nurses killed by coronavirus worldwide

    Statistics from the International Council of Nurses (I.C.N.) indicates that over 600 nurses across the world have been killed by COVID-19.

    Approximately 230,000 health-care workers have also contracted the virus.

    Howard Catton, the Chief Executive Officer of International Council of Nurses (I.C.N.) noted that, “We need a central database of reliable, standardized, comparable data on all infections, periods of quarantine and deaths that are directly or indirectly related COVID-19.”

    He noted that the death toll could be higher as they were not getting reliable statistics from some countries.

    In Ghana at least 13 doctors have contracted the virus according to the Ghana Medical Association. Close to 30 nurses have the virus.

    Source: firstnewsroom.com

  • Coronavirus cases worldwide surpass 4.1 million

    The worldwide tally for Novel Coronavirus infections surpassed 4.1 million early Monday, according to US-based Johns Hopkins University.

    The data also shows that the global death toll from the virus has reached 282,700 with the number of recoveries exceeding 1.4 million.

    The US remains the hardest-hit country by the pandemic with around 1.33 million diagnosed cases and 79,526 deaths.

    It is followed by the UK with 31,930 fatalities and Italy with 30,560 deaths.

    A total of 26,621 people in Spain have lost the battle against the virus, followed closely by France with 26,383 fatalities.

    Meanwhile, Spain has the second-highest number of cases at more than 224,300, followed by the UK, Italy, and Russia.

    China, ground zero of the virus, has registered 84,010 cases so far but has not recorded a single fatality since last week as its death toll continues to stand at 4,637 — raising questions both in and outside the country.

    Overall, the virus has spread to 187 countries and regions.

    Despite the rising number of cases, most people who contract the virus suffer mild symptoms before making a recovery.

    Source: aa.com.tr

  • Coronavirus cases exceed 3.5 million worldwide

    The number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide surpassed 3.5 million on Monday, with three-quarters of them in Europe and the United States, an AFP tally based on official sources showed.

    At least 3,500,517 infections and 246,893 deaths have been recorded globally. Europe is the continent most affected by more than 1.5 million cases and over 143,000 fatalities.

    The United States has registered more than 1.1 million cases and 67,000 deaths.

    The numbers around the world reflect only a fraction of the real figures as many countries test only serious cases.

    Source: punchng.com

  • Coronavirus could drive half a billion people into poverty worldwide – Oxfam

    The fallout from the Coronavirus spread that has killed more than 83,000 people and wreaked havoc on economies around the world could push around half a billion people into poverty, Oxfam said on Thursday.

    The report released by the Nairobi-based charity ahead of next week’s International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank annual meeting calculated the impact of the crisis on global poverty due to shrinking household incomes or consumption.

    “The economic crisis that is rapidly unfolding is deeper than the 2008 global financial crisis,” the report found.

    “The estimates show that, regardless of the scenario, global poverty could increase for the first time since 1990,” it said, adding that this could throw some countries back to poverty levels last seen some three decades ago.

    The report authors played through a number of scenarios, taking into account the World Bank’s various poverty lines – from extreme poverty, defined as living on $1.90 a day or less, to higher poverty lines of living on less than $5.50 a day.

    Under the most serious scenario – a 20% contraction in income – the number of people living in extreme poverty would rise by 434 million people to 922 million worldwide. The same scenario would see the number of people living below the $5.50 a day threshold rise by 548 million people to nearly 4 billion.

    Women are at more risk than men, as they are more likely to work in the informal economy with little or no employment rights.

    “Living day to day, the poorest people do not have the ability to take time off work, or to stockpile provisions,” the report warned, adding that more than 2 billion informal sector workers worldwide had no access to sick pay.

    The World Bank last week said poverty in East Asia and the Pacific region alone could increase by 11 million people if conditions worsened.

    To help mitigate the impact, Oxfam proposed a six point action plan that would deliver cash grants and bailouts to people and businesses in need, and also called for debt cancellation, more IMF support, and increased aid. Taxing wealth, extraordinary profits, and speculative financial products would help raise the funds needed, Oxfam added.

    Calls for debt relief have increased in recent weeks as the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic has roiled developing nations around the world.

    In total, governments around the world would need to mobilise at least $2.5 trillion to support developing nations.

    “Rich countries have shown that at this time of crisis they can mobilize trillions of dollars to support their own economies,” the report said.

    “Yet unless developing countries are also able to fight the health and economic impacts the crisis will continue and it will inflict even greater harm on all countries, rich and poor.”

    Source: reuters.com