Those prayers you join online to shout and kill demons are the most useless prayers– Fr. Kelvin Ugwu

Gabon-based catholic priest, Fr. Kelvin Ugwu has openly castigated individuals who participate in online prayer sessions, describing them as the “most useless forms of prayers.”

His strong comments followed the circulation of a viral video that showed several men shouting and praying intensely on a radio station.

In a post on Facebook on 3rd December 2025, he stated that the only beneficial aspect of these daily morning and evening online prayers, where people shout and claim to “kill demons,” is that they offer a form of aerobic exercise by exercising the participants’ jaws and causing them to shake their legs, hands, and heads.

He emphasized that these practices are not rooted in biblical teaching and warned that many people defend them and even quote the Bible because, in his view, society has become “mentally challenged” without realizing it, allowing “abnormalities” to be normalized.

Fr. Ugwu specifically questioned the rationale behind setting up microphones and cameras simply to shout during prayer, asking whether the shouting is directed towards God or for the individual’s own sake.

He asserted that those who join such online prayer meetings engage in the same pointless activity and challenged participants to reflect on how all the shouting and praying have actually improved them as people.

He wrote, “All those prayers you join online every morning and evening to shout and kill demons are the most useless forms of prayers. The only good thing about them is that they exercise your jaws, and as you shake your legs, hands, and head, it is a form of aerobic exercise.”