Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry
on Breck Road, Anfield, Liverpool, which offered a “cure” for
homosexuality through a “dangerous” three-day starvation programme was
uncovered by an ECHO investigation.
The
church was found offering gay people the chance to “cure” themselves of
their homosexuality through a relentless prayer session involving three
days without food or water.
An
ECHO reporter posing as a member of the public questioning their
sexuality was invited for a private counselling session with the
church’s assistant pastor, where he was told that being gay is
biologically wrong, and that by undergoing prayer therapy it could be
corrected to ‘allow him to marry and have children.’
The
assistant pastor – who called himself ‘Brother Michael’ – said that in
order for the so-called therapy to be most effective, our reporter would
have to ‘humble his soul’ by starving himself and not drinking water
for 24 hours before taking part in a weekly prayer session.
After
an ECHO reporter confronted the church’s pastor Dr Desmond Sanusi, with
the findings, he claimed that the church does not discriminate against
anyone’s sexuality, and that Brother Michael was not acting under his
guidance. .
He also claimed that in 20
years of similar programmes running, “nobody has dropped dead”. Experts
told the ECHO the methods recommended by MFM were “dangerous” and
“extremely concerning”.
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