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COVID-19: Over 70,000 Muslims Accepted Jesus As Their Savior In Pakistan (Video) mynewsghana.net Mar 25, 2020 3:40 PM While the world may seem to be in turmoil because of coronavirus, God’s work cannot be stopped as 73,929 people accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior in Pakistan. On March 7th, 2020, a Christian crusade in Pakistan took place. More than 80,000 people were said to have attended the prayer festival .  Witnesses from the event said that the rain poured down straight for four days before the day of the crusade. However, “the clouds parted and the rain stopped an hour and a half before the crusade began.” And amazingly, the rain never came back for the entire remainder of the event. Moreover, Pakistanis who were present in the crusade witnessed God’s healing power and miracles! In the video, Pastor Craig Walker preached the Gospel to mostly unbelieving Pakistanis. “Pakistan belongs to Jesus!” Pastor Craig declared. Also, he shared with...

Coronavirus: The coalition of Pre-tertiary teacher unions has called for the rescheduling of the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) due to the novel coronavirus outbreak in the country. The WASSCE has been scheduled to begin on March 30, 2020, and end on June 1, 2020, and BECE is supposed to start on June 15, 2020, and end on June 19, 2020. The Executive Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers, Thomas Musah, spoke to Citi News on behalf of the coalition saying the average students and teachers faced too much risk on daily commutes to school, among others.  “To avoid all these challenges…we are asking that, to the extent that the BECE exams will be written in June, the candidates should be asked to go home at least for four weeks.” He also urged the government to also explore the possibility of postponing the WASSCE alongside other West African countries. “Regard...

THE National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) is pushing for government to order all final year students in junior high and senior high schools and their teachers to go home. As Ghana steps up measures to prevent the spread of the six confirmed deadly novel coronavirus cases, all universities, senior high schools and basic schools have since Monday, March 16 been shut down. President Nana Akufo-Addo who announced the shutdown Sunday night said BECE and WASSCE candidates are to attend school to prepare for their examinations, but with prescribed social distancing protocols. President of NAGRAT, Angel Carbonu however said the decision to keep the final year students and teachers on campus is unacceptable. He explained that all students must be made to go home, arguing “Keeping the final years’ in school is not the solution to the problem” of preventing the spread of the global pandemic. “Where we have a problem as teachers is the fact that the directive was more...

Health authorities in the Ashanti Region have directed 30 people who have come into contact with the Convid-19 victim in Obuasi to go into self-isolation as part of measures to curtail the spread of the virus. All such people are being closely monitored by health professionals to determine whether they have been infected in the next 14 days. Dr. Emmanuel Tinkorang, the Regional Director of Health Services who announced this in Kumasi, said there was no need for fear and panic as authorities put measures in place to contain the virus. He was addressing the media to provide update on the Region’s preparedness to contain the virus and the response so far on the Obuasi case. He said the victim was a 56-year-old who returned to the country from the United Kingdom on March 4 and started showing signs of the virus on March 10. According to him, blood samples of the victim that was taken to the Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR) tested posit...