Church officials for the Malawi Assemblies of God have issued a memo to some of their congregations.
Please stop using an abbreviation for "assemblies" on your signs.
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It comes out "A** of God."
A report from the Nyasa Times published at AllAfrica explains the reason the Sept. 19 internal memo was issued.
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The president of the church, Rev. Edward Chitsonga, who signed the memo, "advises that 'A**' means a booty, a donkey, a fool or the rectum itself and thus was not a word the church needed to be associated with."
The memo states: "Kindly inform all pastors under your jurisdiction [to] refrain from using the abbreviation on their signposts. Let us write the name of our church in full: Malawi Assemblies of God."
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Said the Times report, "Lucky they never adopted 'A**es' as an identity for the church's faithfuls."