The General Overseer of Christ Pilgrim Restoration Centre, Kenya, Rev Vincent Mulwa, has said Christain men can marry more than one wives.

Mulwa advised Christian leaders to review teachings on polygamous marriages, claiming there is no verse in the Bible supporting it.

He said polygamy by design would “save a generation of women who are ageing in church without husbands”.

He said many women are ending up unmarried and others are single and widows after they fail to get husbands.

The clergyman said monogamy is a part of European culture and Africans, who are known for polygamy, jettison the culture when European missionaries brought Christianity into Africa. He added that polygamy was rife even among the people who lived during biblical times.

“I have been in the ministry for 38 years, preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ but now I have realised that we ministers of the gospel have lost our believers,” Mulwa said in Kenya’s Daily Nation’s report.

“I have never seen anywhere in the Bible where prophets and preachers prayed for single ladies to get married. 

“The Bible people were polygamous and everyone had a husband.” 

The clergyman added that widows were allowed to become concubines.

He said,

“As far as the Bible is concerned, the number of wives or concubines that one has does not matter and is not a standard of holiness.

“I have come out to tell Christians that we must preach the true gospel and allow our men in the church to marry as many wives as they want. Polygamy is not about men needing many wives but it’s about women needing husbands.”