Tag Archives: Seventh Day Apostolic Church

Health, Malawi

Church members invade Mchinji hospital to take away critically-ill children

Maravi Post Reporter

By Thandie Chadzandiyani

LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-Seventh Day Apostolic Church members who follow weird believes caused drama at Mchinji district hospital on Wednesday, April 6, 2022 as they invaded the facility to take out four critically ill children who were being treated for their sicknesses.

The members follow a revelation of their religious faith that forbids them to use medical support, this made the congregants who are camping along the Mchinji Mountain, prevent their sick children including some living with HIV/AIDS from accessing medical care.

Seventh Day Apostolic Church members invade Mchinji hospital

Speaking to some of the workers narrated that a father to one of the sick children carried a weapon and forcefully took away his son from the hospital bed.

Mchinji Police Station officer Charles James Mpezeni said upon getting a tip, police intervened and talked the faith members into accepting to let the children be treated at the hospital.

However three weeks ago, a child died at the camp after he was denied a chance to access medical help.

Law and order, Malawi, Religion

Malawi police arrest 16 Ekwendeni’s Seventh Day Apostolic Church elders for land encroachment

Maravi Post Reporter
One of Seventh Day Apostolic Church elders

By Thandie Chadzandiyani

LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-Malawi Police in Mzuzu are keeping in custody sixteen, Seventh Day Apostolic Church elders for allegedly encroaching on private land at Msiki area close to Ekwendeni in Mzimba.

Mzuzu Police Station Spokesperson Paul Tembo told The Maravi Post that the ringleaders have left more than one hundred of their followers at the site, most of them women and children.

They have been at Msiki area for close to two weeks now.

One of the suspects, Aaron John said from a Police cell, that they are coming from Chikwawa and are destined to an undisclosed place where they will be preaching the word of God.

John says they are not bitter that they have been arrested.

The sixteen are being kept at Mzuzu police station for further investigations