Posted on 11/14/2017 5:32:17 AM PST by Morgana
SPINDALE, N.C. -- When Andre Oliveira answered the call to leave his Word of Faith Fellowship congregation in Brazil to move to the mother church in North Carolina at the age of 18, his passport and money were confiscated by church leaders -- for safekeeping, he said he was told.
Trapped in a foreign land, he said he was forced to work 15 hours a day, usually for no pay, first cleaning warehouses for the secretive evangelical church and later toiling at businesses owned by senior ministers. Any deviation from the rules risked the wrath of church leaders, he said, ranging from beatings to shaming from the pulpit.
"They trafficked us up here. They knew what they were doing. They needed labor and we were cheap labor -- hell, free labor," Oliveira said.
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Seems they have been trouble for a long long time.
Yes I know you don’t think this is a “mega church” with 750 people but they do have branches in Ghana and Brazil. Have no idea what the sum total there is.
Also yes the press reports them as being “Evangelical” but a friend of mine thinks they are more “Pentecostal”. After viewing that episode from Inside Edition I’m inclined to agree.
Either way, still think we should be keeping an eye on this bunch. They have been around since 1995 and trouble has always surrounded them.
But when it is the "Church" of Scientology...where is CBS?
In all fairness this “Church” been messing up since 1995 and for some reason Pastor Jane is still walking free.
Only concerned about mosques. Got anything on them?
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