A Nigerian pastor, Abel Damina, has made a bold statement about the Catholic Church, saying its members would leave if encouraged to read the Bible.
In a viral video shared on social media platform X, Damina claimed the Church discourages its followers from reading the Bible on their own.
“If the Catholic Church encouraged their members to read the Bible, nobody would be there by now because all the things they are doing will be exposed, so they make sure they discourage them from reading only what the father says is final,” Damina alleged.
He further explained that he was not attacking the Catholic Church but trying to reveal the truth about its practices.
Responding to these comments, a Catholic priest, Father James A, dismissed Damina’s remarks as laughable.
“A Church, since her foundation at Pentecost, has endured centuries of persecution, heresies, internal and external wars, and relentless ideological attacks, yet still stands as the authentic custodian of the Gospel’s truth and its interpretation – being ‘exposed’ by Abel Damina? I can’t help but laugh in Greek,” Father James wrote on X.
