{"id":893,"date":"2019-08-10T13:39:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T13:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ghana\/?p=893"},"modified":"2019-08-10T13:39:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T13:39:40","slug":"catholic-bishops-condemn-badu-kobi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/catholic-bishops-condemn-badu-kobi","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Bishops condemn Badu Kobi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Prophet Badu Kobi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference has condemned the misogynistic comments made by founder of Glorious Wave Chapel, Prophet Badu Kobi.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prophet Kobi in a recent video suggested that Asante women are greedy, Fante women are foolish, and Ewe women are like doormats.<\/p>\n<p>He also advised men not to marry Asante women because of the greed they bring into the marriage.<\/p>\n<p>At its\u00a0just-ended Plenary Meeting, the Ghana Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference said the issue was deliberated on and \u201cwe condemn him in no uncertain terms for saying what he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is our view that a pastor of a church, or anybody for that matter, should not talk the way he did. In so doing, he has shown great disrespect to women. Such statements bring\u00a0division not only in the church but also in the nation,\u201d a statement signed by President, Most Rev. Philip Naameh said.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a copy of the full statement:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-894\" src=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/08\/5766338770174_433044150626.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"828\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/08\/5766338770174_433044150626.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/2019\/08\/5766338770174_433044150626-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prophet Badu Kobi The Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference has condemned the misogynistic comments made by founder of Glorious Wave Chapel, Prophet Badu Kobi. Prophet Kobi in a recent video suggested that Asante women are greedy, Fante women are foolish, and Ewe women are like doormats. He also advised men not to marry Asante women because of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,12],"tags":[419,490,417],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-badukobi","tag-catholic","tag-ghananews"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Catholic Bishops condemn Badu Kobi - Ghana<\/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.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/catholic-bishops-condemn-badu-kobi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Catholic Bishops condemn Badu Kobi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prophet Badu Kobi The Catholic Bishops\u2019 Conference has condemned the misogynistic comments made by founder of Glorious Wave Chapel, Prophet Badu Kobi. 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