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A Catholic priest has criticised individuals who join daily online prayer sessions, describing such practices as “useless.”
Rev. Fr. Kelvin Ugwu, in a Facebook post, argued that online prayers centred on shouting at or “killing” demons achieve nothing spiritually.
He wrote: “All those prayers you join online every morning and evening to shout and kill demons are the most useless forms of prayers. The only good thing about them is that they exercise your jaws, and as you shake your legs, hands, and head, it is a form of aerobic exercise.”
According to him, such sessions do not qualify as genuine prayer.
“Those shoutings every morning and evening are not even supposed to be called prayers. They only strengthen your relationship with your imaginary demons, not your relationship with God. True prayer is a relationship with God, and there is nowhere in scripture where God even gives a clue that we should relate with Him in that manner,” he added. “I repeat: such prayers are USELESS.”
Fr. Ugwu also accused some ministers who host these online sessions of exploiting their followers.
“Those ministers you join every morning or evening are making content and cashing out. Na business dem dey do. They open shop or stage every morning and evening, then invite you to patronize them after convincing you that they have the solution to a problem they first created in your head,” he said.
He further questioned the credibility of preachers who loudly “kill demons” online yet rely on heavy security in real life.
“They ‘kill demons’ and declare how their enemies monitoring them will die, yet they still move around with security men carrying guns, inside bulletproof cars. If that one no prove to you the uselessness of their shouting, nothing else will,” he stated.
Concluding his post, he wrote: “To be clear, you can remain in your foolishness, no wahala. But don’t say you were not told.”
