A TOP OFFICIAL of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the West Indies (PAWI) has issued some sobering advice to the thousands of followers across Barbados.
“We cannot as a church put our heads down in the sand and say, ‘Well, it really is not affecting us’,” said General Bishop Dr Pat Glasgow, in a reference to the upsurge in crime, including use of illegal guns.
Bishop Glasgow, one of the recipients of the inaugural Lydia Dowdye-Mings Servanthood Award – the most prestigious award of the district – said gone were the days when the social ills were viewed as being confined to New York.
Instead, he said they had long reached Jamaica, Trinidad and were also affecting Barbados.(WILLCOMM)
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