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Adeboye calls for prayers for 5 RCCG pastors kidnapped by gunmen

The RCCG ministers were kidnapped while travelling to a conference.

The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye [Vanguard]

While speaking during RCCG's ministers' conference on Friday, August 2, 2019, Adeboye said the ministers were kidnapped along Ijebu-Ode axis.

They were on their way to the conference when they were abducted on Thursday, August 1.

Adeboye said, "As a father, how do you think I should feel to hear that five of my children have been kidnapped while on their way to attend the Ministers Conference?"

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Nigeria has witnessed a rise in the spate of insecurity in the past few months with kidnappings and killings rampant.

Reverend Father Paul Offu, a Catholic priest, was killed by gunmen in Enugu on Thursday, leading priests to stage a protest against insecurity in the state on Friday.

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