Campaigners are urging for Helen Ukpabio, known as 'Lady Apostle', to be deported and banned from returning to the UK on the grounds her preaches are harmful to the public
A Nigerian ‘witch-hunter’ who claims any child who cries is a ‘servant of Satan’ could be banned from the UK following calls to British Home Secretary Theresa May that she is a risk to youngsters.
Campaigners are urging for Helen Ukpabio, known as ‘Lady Apostle’, to be deported and banned from returning to the UK on the grounds her preaches are harmful to the public. The born-again Christian Pentecostal preacher, who founded the controversial African Evangelical franchise Liberty Foundation Gospel Ministries in Nigeria, is thought to currently be in the UK.
It understood she flew into London where she has been holding a number of church services to promote her belief in witchcraft and offer help to those ‘under threat’ from the wizardry.
Ms Ukpabio was one of a number of preachers who regularly travelled to the UK
A poster advertising one of Ms Ukpabio’s most recent talks – which was cancelled after the venue was leaked online – claims to offer help to people who are under ‘witchcraft attack, ancestral spirit attack or mermaid spirit attack’ and claims to help ‘disconnect' them. However, campaigners have warned her controversial views are dangerous to children – including the belief that ‘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’.
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) have now written to the Home Secretary in an attempt to get Ms Ukpabio deported under the Immigration Act 1971 - on the grounds her presence in the UK is not conducive to the public good.
Campaigners have written to Home Secretary Theresa May in an attempt to get the preacher deported under the Immigration Act 1971 - on the grounds her presence in the UK is not conducive to the public good In a letter to Ms May, the campaigners warn: ‘Whilst the Government has moved swiftly to block entry to the UK for Islamic preachers whose presence is considered as harmful to the public good, there have been no cases of Christian pastors facing such measures.’
The groups are hoping the pastor will be banned from returning to the UK once she has completed her final tour. Gary Foxcroft, of the WHRIN said Ms Ukpabio was one of a number of preachers who regularly travelled to the UK.
He told the Independent: ‘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.’
Bob Churchill, of the IHEU, also told the newspaper: ‘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.’
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Posted: at 15-04-2014 06:35 PM (11 years ago) | Addicted Hero
I agree wholeheartedly that this 'woman' (putting the term loosely) should be banned. I know people who grew up around belief's such as this and know how detrimental it can be. Some of them were in their mid twenties when they finally stopped believing some of the things that were said to them as a child, i.e. "you're a witch because you say this and that..." These are beliefs that are carried through generations in many African families, and I am glad that many Africans have finally broken the cycle.
This woman should be banned anywhere where there is children, period.
Posted: at 15-04-2014 06:50 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac
Topsylucas at 15-04-2014 11:25 PM (11 years ago) (f)
Madam I hpe ull not import dat ur witchcraft stunt in2 nigeria when ure deported. Dis is how u ppl go about preaching fallacy & causing serious embarrassment 2 d church.
Posted: at 15-04-2014 11:25 PM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac
ksurrina at 16-04-2014 04:39 AM (11 years ago) (f)
An ANGEL of Satan accusing CHILDREN of being witch. But such is the world and those who LOVE vanities. They don't know who SATAN is and don't even understand that they are the SATAN. They are the PETER who are carriers of SATAN. Satan is who SAVOUR the things of MEN and not the things of GOD. God told us how to teach the CHILDREN. Yes Moses within God told us that we must teach them the COMMANDMENTS of the Lord. Bind them upon their foreheads, write them where they can see them. But today those who SAVOUR the things of MEN who are SATAN in the Religion of Christianity the City of Babylon spend their time abusing the Children. They are no different than a pedophile, child abusers etc they are all the SAME. Wicked people who worship the BEAST and in every thing they do, the name of SATAN must come from their mouths because it is HIS POWER they are using so they are acknowledging him. Born Again is SPIRIT is SPIRIT. You must be BORN of the Water and of the SPIRIT. This Spirit comes to us through the Believe of the Only Begotten Son. Until persons start fearing God then they will understand that these ANGELS OF SATAN must be defeated here on earth just as how he and his angels were defeated in Heaven. Hugs
Godly WISDOM is to Fear God. His UNDERSTANDING is to resist the devil.
Posted: at 16-04-2014 04:39 AM (11 years ago) | Gistmaniac
, she think say uk na akwa ibom and calabar for nigeria 
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