Duncan Williams Divorced

The bi-weekly, The Statesman, reports that Bishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams, Head and Founder of the Christian Action Faith Ministries, Accra, faces difficult times ahead. His wife of 20 years, Francesca has divorced him for what he believes is "lack of quality time and affection" on his part.

Breaking the news to a stunned congregation last Sunday, a tearful Bishop Duncan-Williams said, "My marriage has undergone tremendous challenges in the last two years and I did all I could to save it." He made a passionate appeal to married men in the church to learn from his experiences, saying most women can live without riches but not without attention, and quality time.

The Head of one of Ghana's largest and most popular charismatic churches found it ironic that his wife would marry him when he had nothing, and then leave at a time when he was making some progress in life. If she could leave him now then it had to do with women wanting quality time and affection, more than anything else, he reasoned.

Though his marriage has come to the end of the road, the Bishop maintains that he does not believe in divorce and would not recommend it to anyone.

He intends to take a break for a while and asked the congregation, some of whom were in tears, to pray for him and his family. He also thanked his fellow ministers, including Apostle Mike Ntumy, Church of Pentecost, Fred Deegbe, Calvery Baptist Church, Dag Heward-Mills, Lighthouse Chapel International, and Dr. Mensah Otabil, International Central Gospel Church, for standing by him during these trying times.

Bishop Duncan-Williams and Francesca have four children, Elsie, Nicole, Joel and Daniel, who are currently living in the US with her.