Pastor arrested for faking miracles in Ghana

A pastor has been arrested for hiring a woman to pose as a cripple and 'healing her' during a church service, according to a report.

Jonas Abedi had apparently made contact with Reverend Ewurama Annan, claiming to be a pastor based in New York according to Citi 97.3.

Annan invited him to her church, the Founder of Power Explosion Chapel at Tantra Hills in Accra, when he claimed to be going to Ghana as part of a programme.

When he arrived he started performing miracles, healing a crippled woman who had been brought there by her sister, calling out a young man for using charms to seduce women, and revealing the phone number and personal details of another.

Annan became suspicious however, after she noticed that none of the people involved were actually members of her church.

She got the elders of the church to watch the group.

The jig was up when the 'cripple', her sister and the two men met up at a petrol station, where a man walked up to them and gave them money.

The men bolted, but were arrested along with the pastor later at their hotel.

Both women confessed that they had put up the charade at the church for GH¢50 (R172.23) each.