It is a very significant development when churches begin to compete with hospitals as venues where women prefer to give birth. This significant development is currently happening in Nigeria where some women prefer to deliver their babies in churches with the help of traditional midwives than at hospitals which they see as a godless place. Why churches have come to be competing with hospitals is a story that is still to be properly told. What can be said, for now, is that this state of affairs need not be so. Churches are not places intended for delivery. This is what hospitals are meant for. Churches should be building hospitals if they want to help women deliver in a safe and godly way.
Image caption Dr Linda Ayade is trying to persuade people to go to clinics to give birth (From the BBC)
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