Slavery exposed at Word of Faith Church Headquarters

[Open Heart]

‘They kept us as slaves’: AP reveals claims against church

SPINDALE, N.C. (AP) — 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.

http://religionnews.com/2017/07/28/they-kept-us-as-slaves-ap-reveals-claims-against-church/

 

[Hank77]

Another article says they are being investigated by the feds. I hope that is true. If what these people say is true some people need to go to jail.

 

[Open Heart]

Another article says they are being investigated by the feds. I hope that is true. If what these people say is true some people need to go to jail.

I hope so.

This is the problem with authoritarian fundamentalist churches -- sometimes the power gets abused. My guess is that in their own rationalizing minds, they simply didn't label it as slavery, but as "serving the church."

 

[Hank77]

I hope so.

This is the problem with authoritarian fundamentalist churches -- sometimes the power gets abused. My guess is that in their own rationalizing minds, they simply didn't label it as slavery, but as "serving the church."

Considering the thing about demons and the name of the church, I don't think they are fundamentalists. They would be closer to evangelical, some corrupted type of Pentecostal.
But as far as imo, they are not a church of God at all. They are just people who are using a church as a front to make money.

 

[jabattler1976]

quick qn....why do Jewish women wear
horizontal bar around neck???

What is the meaning?

 

[Monk Brendan]

Another article says they are being investigated by the feds. I hope that is true. If what these people say is true some people need to go to jail.

Where is all of the sanctimonious howling that would happen if this was a Catholic Church?

 

[Hank77]

Where is all of the sanctimonious howling that would happen if this was a Catholic Church?

Well there should be howling. But I would say that this is one rather small church, nothing like the Catholic church in size or trusted by so many, therefore, it is not getting the same publicity. Neither is it the same magnitude of trust breaking.