Bishop Browne Wants Gov’t to Reject Lodge Money
The Ministry of Health has received a clear demand to return the $86,700.00 donation from the Masonic Lodge or the Three Masons.
Bishop Charlesworth Browne, Head of the Christian Ministries Center in Antigua and Barbuda, is making the demand.
The Masonic Lodge donated the money to the hospital for the purchase of an ultrasound machine for the Sir Lester Bird Medical Center.
“There is something sinister and something evil brewing under the cover of this donation”, Browne told reporters Sunday
The Worship Master of Antigua Samaritan Lodge, Arthur Thomas, presented a significant donation to Sir Molwyn Joseph.
However, Browne cautioned the public about the potential spiritual implications of accepting such a donation.
“A contribution of $86,700 dollars. This number has a meaning. It is called an Angel number. It is deliberate that the Lodge decided to give $86,700.00”, he added
“I want to say to the minister of health, the Cabinet, and the government that they need to give that money back to the Lodge. If they already deposited it, take it off the account and get a check. Give them back their money. We are living in dangerous dark times”, he advised.
Furthermore, Bishop Browne said he is also concerned that the donation is to go towards the ultrasound department of the hospital
“For those who are uninformed and not sensitive towards dynamics about certain things among us, this will just pass them by. I am still flabbergasted about the baldness of the Lodge these days. They used to be a secret society and taboo, but they are now out in the open. I have seen even clergymen a part of it. This is not to be taken lightly,” he said
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Donna July 8, 2024, 9:03 AM
Jezz July 8, 2024, 2:03 PM
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If any be blameless, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of riot or unruly.
For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre;
But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate;
Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers.
For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:
Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.
One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith;
Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Jezz July 10, 2024, 7:39 AM