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Tuesday 15 April 2014

Helen Ukpabio slammed for labelling children 'witches':UK activists call for her deportation

Nigerian movie producer/preacher Helen Ukpabio is now under fire in the UK where she now resides and runs her ministry.Letters have been written for her deportation.They claim she poses a threat to children since it was alleged she said...
 "“If a child under the age of two screams in the night, cries and is always feverish with deteriorating health, he or she is a servant of Satan.”
This is what the independent wrote..
  The Home Secretary Theresa May is being urged to step in to prevent a Nigerian “witch hunter” returning to the UK after she flew in to preach to congregations in London.
Lady Apostle” Helen Ukpabio, founder of the controversial Liberty Foundation Gospel Ministries, is believed to still be in the capital after addressing three gatherings last week.
The born-again Christian Pentecostal preacher claims to have been betrothed to Satan as a teenager before being rescued from a cult at the age of 17. She now specialises in liberating captives in “deliverance sessions” that critics claim are little more than crude exorcisms. 


Among her advice to parents is the suggestion: “If a child under the age of two screams in the night, cries and is always feverish with deteriorating health, he or she is a servant of Satan.”

Campaigners say such beliefs, prevalent in some parts of the developing world, can put children’s safety at risk. They have written to Ms May to urge that the pastor be banned from the UK after the current tour.

In the letter, the Witchcraft and Human Rights Information Network (WHRIN), the Bar Human Rights Committee of England and Wales and the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) cite the cases of Victoria ClimbiĆ© and Kristy Bamu as examples where witchcraft beliefs played a role in the  horrific torture and murder of children.
Ms Ukpabio cancelled her first service in south-east London last week after the location was leaked. She is understood to have made three other appearances, including one at a private home.

Around a dozen people attended each event which offered help to those “under attack” from witchcraft, ancestral or “mermaid” spirits.

Bob Churchill, of the IHEU, said:
 “It is important that the UK authorities send a message to the world that branding children, or anyone, as a witch is beyond the pale.”
Ms Ukpabio founded the church in 1992 in Calabar, Nigeria. It now claims to have 150 branches worldwide.

Gary Foxcroft, of the WHRIN, who has worked extensively in documenting examples of witchcraft abuse, said Ms Ukpabio was one of a number of preachers who regularly travelled to the UK.
 “The fundamental problem is that churches need to be regulated. Anyone can set up a church tomorrow in their own garden shed with no commitment to child protection or making their accounts transparent or any theological training.”

11 comments:

  1. I've never liked this womam

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    1. Me too I've heard her story in Calabar

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  2. No wonder am no longer seeing her in nigerian movies again, so she went to the UK to preach about satan forgetting the white calls it science and we over here calls it satanic act..... make them deport her b4 she cause bad market there abeg...
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  3. I don't blame her but the foolish people who believe .She looks like a Y........ complete the word

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  4. Lmao @ if a child under r2 cries at night, he/she is a servant of Satan smh

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  5. What else is a toddler to do at this age? Sadly a lot stupid brainwashed adults will buy into this crap!

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  6. She looks like a wicked witch

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  7. This same woman who used to produce and act in scary christian films. She always looked like a fanatic

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  8. She thinks it's Nigeria where there are mumus willing to believe every bullshit.They should arrest her sef

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  9. So if pikin get malaria him be winch abi?
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