Post by Cinemachinery on Sept 20, 2017 18:44:07 GMT
religionnews.com/2017/07/28/they-kept-us-as-slaves-ap-reveals-claims-against-church/
(Source isn't really known to me but the AP investigation is searchable.)
Anyone remember the hullabaloo about Jane Whaley in the early 80s and the "sect" she'd started? Rumors about some form of human rights abuse, etc...
Welp... holy cow...
Read the whole thing for an eye-opening experience, but here's a slice:
(Source isn't really known to me but the AP investigation is searchable.)
Anyone remember the hullabaloo about Jane Whaley in the early 80s and the "sect" she'd started? Rumors about some form of human rights abuse, etc...
Welp... holy cow...
Read the whole thing for an eye-opening experience, but here's a slice:
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.
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.