COVID-19 Vaccine Killed The Pope - Pastor Chris Oyakhilome Claims Without Proof, Sets Internet on Fire

By: Israel Adeleke

OPEN TELEVISION NAIJA (OTN) News reports that the founder of Christ Embassy, and Nigerian pastor, author, televangelist and president of LoveWorld Incorporated, Pastor Chris Oyakhilome has set the internet on fire with his claim, without proof that the COVID-19 vaccine was responsible for the death of Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2013 until his death in 2025. 

OTN News further reports that the pastor who disclosed this in a video of a programme held late this week, which has since gone viral on YouTube, alleged that the late Pope had aligned himself with “globalists” by promoting COVID-19 vaccines, a decision he said ultimately led to his death.

According to him, I pointed it out during your LoveWorld Specials. While he was trying to encourage the world to take the vaccines, he stated that if Jesus were here, he would have taken the vaccine, and I found that very insulting.”

The televangelist went further to claim that the Pope’s stroke, reported as the immediate cause of death, was a result of blood clots triggered by the vaccine. 

OTN News observes that while he was speaking to his congregation, Oyakhilome asked a medical doctor present at the programme whether a blood clot could cause a stroke.

However, the doctor affirmed his words, therefore he asserted: “The vaccine killed the Pope.”

He lectured, “Blood clots is one of the most common causes of death from the vaccine. He’s not the only one. Many of them who became ill will not tell you. No one is going to tell you he died as a result of the vaccine. I warned you. I warned the world about taking those mRNA vaccines. No vaccine is good, not one of them, and they have never worked; it’s always been a deception,"

“They have these people dying, they won’t tell you the cause. They dress it up. They get sick and they can’t be cured. They get sick and sick and worse and worse until it kills them. For some, very quickly. They call it sudden death syndrome. So, just remember that I warned you.

“This was a very healthy pope, and I told you that once that substance is inside your body, it can’t leave, it doesn’t go away. They have no scientific way to remove it because they never planned to remove it. It was planned for death, to kill as many people around the world. I feel pained that a pope like that would have his life cut short. And many around the world may not know what led to it but I have told you what led to it. It was the vaccine.” pastor Chris said.

OTN News observes that this is not the first time Pastor Oyakhilome has made unsubstantiated claims about vaccines. 

OTN News recalls that since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Oyakhilome has repeatedly made unsubstantiated claims. In 2020, he alleged that the COVID-19 lockdown in Nigeria was orchestrated to install 5G technology in Abuja and Lagos.

“The Federal Government was pushed to lockdown Abuja and Lagos specifically because of 5G,” he said.

“What killed people in Wuhan, China, was not the virus but the 5G.”

Oyakhilome also dismissed the use of face masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19, claiming it was political rather than scientific. He said, “Wearing [masks] is politics, it’s okay. But no one should lie to us [that] it’s science… In fact, scientifically, it’s dangerous to health.”

OTN News further recalls the a medical facts and official statements from the Vatican which had been earlier released contradict Oyakhilome’s assertions.

The official information states that Pope Francis was admitted to the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic Hospital after battling bronchitis for several days. His health deteriorated with a diagnosis of bilateral pneumonia on February 18.

After 38 days of hospital care, the Pope returned to his Vatican residence at Casa Santa Marta, where he died following a stroke and subsequent irreversible cardiac arrest.

The Vatican, in a statement released on Monday, confirmed that Pope Francis died of a cerebral stroke and heart failure.

It is also publicly known that in his youth, Pope Francis underwent surgery to remove part of a lung damaged by a severe respiratory infection, a factor that contributed to his declining health in later years.

Furthermore, in 2021, he was hospitalised for 10 days after intestinal surgery. He was again hospitalised in 2023 for bronchitis treatment and later for abdominal surgery to remove scar tissue and repair a hernia.