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Thursday November 12, 2009

‘Witches, possessed’ flock to Kenya pastor Lawrence Omambia

Of course it isn’t all that unusual for a pastor to claim healing powers. Witness the blow-dried televangelists of America and elsewhere, who often advertise their dramatic healing powers in infomercials.

But in western Kenya the belief in the supernatural is far deeper, and the line between Christianity and the occult is thin at best.
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Tuesday September 15, 2009

Renascer / Reborn in Christ Church:

Brazil’s evangelical churches growing; leaders of two churches face fraud charges

Estevam Hernandes Filho and Sonia Hernandes

Evangelical Christian churches are luring Brazilians away from Roman Catholicism, the dominant religion in Brazil. In 1950, 94 percent of Brazilians said they were Catholic, but that number fell steadily to 74 percent by 2000.

The New York Times article mentions several churches, among which Renascer/Reborn in Christ — whose leaders are facing fraud, larceny, tax evasion and money laundering charges.
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Friday May 15, 2009

RNB Roundup:

RNB’s Religion News Roundup: faith healing, witchcraft, exorcism and more…

Today’s edition of RNB’s Religion News Roundup includes two items about witchcraft, one somewhat funny, and one seriously disturbing.

The funny item involves the believe in Tanzania that by use of witchcraft one can transport crops from one farm to another (i.e. stealing in order to save oneself lots of hard work).

The serious item comes from Nigeria, where hundreds of children falsely accused of witchcraft have been killed.

There are also news items about faith healing, a link to resources for religion reporters covering the on-going torture debacle, and more…
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Monday May 11, 2009

Carlton Pearson:

New Thought church members oppose appointment of Carlton Pearson as senior minister

Carlton Pearson, once regarded as one of the nation’s most influential Pentecostal preachers, was denounced as a heretic for his teaching that everyone goes to heaven: Muslims, Buddhists, gays, even the devil.

Now Pearson faces a different battle, as members of a New Thought church in Chicago are protesting his appointment as senior minister.
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Monday March 16, 2009

RNB Roundup:

Religion news roundup: Scientology, religion trends, Islam, Gwen Shamblin, and more

In today’s Religion News Roundup stories about: • Muslims behaving badly, • a ’starvation diet’ weight-loss guru addressing school children, • a couple of televangelists, • and one of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Also present: • vampires, • as well as Christians who are holding their first ever symposium on aliens (from outer space, that is). Speaking of aliens, • a Scientology PR guy does a good job inoculating people against Scientology. • More…
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Monday December 29, 2008

Exorcism:

U.S. Supreme Court asked to hear Texas exorcism case

The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to review the case of a former Colleyville woman who claims a forced traumatic exorcism left her so physically bruised and emotionally scarred that she later attempted to commit suicide.

A sharply divided Texas Supreme Court ruled in June that the Pleasant Glade Assembly of God staff and members are protected by the First Amendment because it involves an ecclesiastical dispute over religious conduct.
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Monday November 24, 2008

Witchcraft:

Nigeria sees rise in number of children accussed of witchcraft

Increasingly Nigerian children accused of witchcraft are tortured, murdered or abandoned. The director of one child protection agency says the teachings of some churches are partly to blame.

“Churches have strong influence on people and some church leaders get some parents to sheepishly believe that their kids are witches and wizards. This is the focus of most of these churches, which have departed from preaching righteousness and salvation of souls to stigmatisation of children as witches and wizards.”
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Monday October 6, 2008

Prosperity Teaching:

Foreclosures: Did God Want You to Get That Mortgage?

Has the so-called Prosperity gospel turned its followers into some of the most willing participants — and hence, victims — of the current financial crisis?

While researching a book on black televangelism, says Jonathan Walton, a religion professor at the University of California at Riverside, he realized that Prosperity’s central promise — that God will “make a way” for poor people to enjoy the better things in life — had developed an additional, dangerous expression during the subprime-lending boom.
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Friday October 3, 2008

Faith Healing • Homosexuality/Lesbianism/Bisexuality/Transg.:

Faith healers dangerous for public health, Amsterdam alderman claims

The City of Amsterdam and the COC — an advocacy group for LBGT men and women — are calling for an investigation by the Netherlands Health Care Inspectorate into healing rituals offered by Pentecostal churches for homosexuals and HIV patients.

The healing services can lead to HIV patients forsaking their medicines, and contribute to the stigmatization of homosexuals.
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Tuesday June 3, 2008

Kenneth Copeland • Prosperity Teaching:

Son of televangelist Kenneth Copeland defends church and preacher’s spending

“There’s a lot of doctrine that teaches that you’re not a good Christian unless you’re poor. But that’s not our doctrine, that’s not what we believe,” the younger Copeland told KTVT-TV.
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Monday April 21, 2008

Fresh Fire Ministries • Todd Bentley:

One of today’s controversial renewal and revival movements is making waves in Florida.
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Monday March 17, 2008

Mercy Ministries:

They prayed to cast Satan from my body

Instead of the promised psychiatric treatment and support, they were placed in the care of Bible studies students, most of them under 30 and some with psychological problems of their own. Counselling consisted of prayer readings, treatment entailed exorcisms and speaking in tongues, and the house was locked down most of the time, isolating residents from the outside world and sealing them in a humidicrib of pentacostal religion.
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Thursday February 14, 2008

Kingsway International Christian Centre:

Plan for biggest church in Britain

In 2005, Ashimolowo was embroiled in a Charity Commission investigation which ordered him to repay £200,000 to the charity which ran the church.
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Wednesday February 13, 2008

Religion Trends:

Religion Joins Custody Cases, to Unease of Judges

Judges do not want to take on custody disputes rooted in religion. Lawyer Gaetano Ferro: “How will a judge say in any rational fashion that Islam is better than Buddhism, Catholicism better than Judaism, or Methodism better than Pentecostalism?”
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Friday January 18, 2008

Science and Religion:

Ex-pastor driven to tout evolution

Michael Dowd speaks in tongues, and when he’s not doing that, he’s talking almost nonstop about why Christians should embrace evolution.
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Friday January 4, 2008

UCKG:

If redemption fails, you can still use the free bathroom

The Universal Church of God relentlessly sells the fraudulent prosperity gospel to the poor.
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Tuesday December 18, 2007

Televangelists:

Televangelists Could Survive Inquiry

The six prosperity gospel ministries under scrutiny by Republican Sen. Charles Grassley are a tough group to take on. The televangelists are veterans at outmaneuvering opponents, and in this case are even getting support from their critics.
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Sunday November 25, 2007

Oral Roberts University:

Faith tested at Oral Roberts University

To ORU’s 5,300 deeply religious students, the events of recent weeks have brought an unexpected test, one that caused them to choose between questioning or defending the administration, worry about tainted diplomas and search for spiritual answers.
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Thursday November 8, 2007

Televangelists:

Some Question Preacher Investigation

Even among those who welcome the scrutiny of 6 top televangelists, there is concern over government intrusion into religion, more red tape in the name of transparency and undue burdens on preachers and churches who play strictly by the rules.
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Monday September 24, 2007

Christianity:

Fight the good fight: preacher who knows more than most about Bible-bashing

To those not in the know, 31-year-old Bad Ass is a mixed martial artist who fights in the brutal world of Cage Rage, the UK’s version of ultimate fighting, a violent and increasingly popular mixture of boxing and martial arts that the British Medical Association wants to see banned.
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Sunday September 9, 2007

Christianity:

Christian doctrine speeds destruction of artifacts

The old gods are being linked to the devil, and preachers are urging not only their rejection, but their destruction.
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Monday August 13, 2007

Emerging Church:

Emergent Christians finding a new path

The movement has taken on a variety of labels — it’s called emergent, emerging, postmodern and missional, among other things — although these Christians resist being defined. Their numbers are difficult to estimate because they don’t focus on attendance, and their ideas about what church should be cover a wide spectrum.
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Tuesday August 7, 2007

Christianity:

Christians Move Towards Code on Seeking Converts

Christian churches are moving closer to a common code of conduct on how they go about winning converts among themselves and from other religions, the World Council of Churches (WCC) said on Monday. Conversion, sometimes dubbed “sheep-stealing” as it targets another’s flock, is a cause of friction and conflict between religions and among different branches of individual faiths.
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Monday August 6, 2007

Christianity:

Preaching transformation, U.S. sect goes global

Pentecostalism, a lively evangelical Christian movement that took off a century ago in Los Angeles, is one of the world’s fastest-growing sects, with dedicated followings in places as far-flung as Brazil, Kenya and South Korea.
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Monday July 2, 2007

Religion Trends:

Charismatic rise in Africa: The Rise of Pentecostalism

Promising prosperity, miracle cures and life-changing spiritual experiences, the “born again” faiths that are the staple of America’s multi-millionaire televangelists are fast taking over the world’s poorest continent.
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