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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Mercy Ministries</title>
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		<title>How to cure anorexia with exorcisms</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21786/"><img src="http://www.religionnewsblog.com/graphicspics/mercyministries2.jpg" alt="Mercy Ministries" width="90" height="90" border="0" style="float:left;padding-right:5px;"></a> Exorcisms to cure mental illness and drug addiction, locking vulnerable people away from friends and family, prayer as a solution to all problems – sounds like psych ward from last century. But actually it’s just the ‘Mercy Way’.
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The once mighty ‘Mercy Ministries’, a secretive outfit that purports to treat young women with mental illness, is now in serious trouble.]]></description>
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		<title>Mercy Ministries to close home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 16:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mercy Ministries, the Gloria Jeans and Hillsong-supported religious program under investigation for its controversial use of exorcism to treat mental illness, has announced its Queensland home will close.]]></description>
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		<title>Mercy Ministries referred to Australian Competition and Consumer Commission</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sydney Christian group Mercy Ministries has been referred to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) over allegations it misled mentally ill women seeking help.]]></description>
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		<title>Why Mercy Ministries was godsent for Hillsong</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20904/mercy-ministries-3</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:42:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mercy Ministries was a godsend for Hillsong. Desperate young women who are violated by the world draw a sympathetic audience. It seemed a simple concept for Hillsong to mimic locally and it was presented as a utopia of female health. Hillsong is an organisation based on recruitment and fund-raising. Mercy Ministries was an opportunity to do both on a new and larger scale.]]></description>
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		<title>Mercy Ministries: No mercy for transgressions</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20903/mercy-ministries-australia-3</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further evidence has emerged that Mercy Ministries cuts off young women who fail to comply with its complex web of rules and regulations, as more former residents come forward to detail their time in the conservative Christian homes.]]></description>
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		<title>Cult-rescue group concerned about Mercy Ministries</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20901/mercy-ministries-australia-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raphael Aron, director of Cult Counselling Australia, said Mercy Ministries was not a traditional guru or disciple cult but its exploitation of vulnerable people put it in the cult spectrum.]]></description>
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		<title>Lives at risk when vulnerable patients taken in by cult-like groups</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20895/mercy-ministries-cult-like</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Christian-based counselling program run by Mercy Ministries has been condemned by psychiatrists, who have labelled it cult-like and warned that it puts the lives of young women at risk.]]></description>
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		<title>They prayed to cast Satan from my body</title>
		<link>http://www.religionnewsblog.com/20894/mercy-ministries-australia</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>They sought help, but got exorcism and the Bible</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three former residents who have felt the full force of Mercy's questionable programs are blowing the whistle on its emotionally cruel and medically unproven techniques, detailing abuse including exorcisms, "separation contracts" between girls who became friends, and harsh discipline for those who broke the rules.]]></description>
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		<title>Hillsong Church, Gloria Jeans linked to abuse claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young women suffering mental illness were treated with Bible studies and exorcisms as part of a secretive ministry linked to Gloria Jean's Coffees and the Hillsong Church.]]></description>
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