The Heat Is Still On! "The Witch Hunter", Apostle Helen, May Never Travel To UK, US Ever Again!!!

“Lady Apostle” Helen Ukpabio, founder of the controversial Liberty Foundation Gospel Ministries, popularly known as a notorious witch hunter, took her campaign to London last week. The theme of the event was ”Season for Disconnection from All Spiritual Attack”.

Apostle Ukpabio enjoined all who were ‘under witchcraft attack, ancestral spirit attack, mermaid spirit attack’ to come and be spiritually disconnected. The program was slated to take place at The Albany Douglas Way, Deptford, London.

Well a rights campaigner, Leo Igwe,  doesn't think so. She went...

on air to speak to Doubful News about Ukpabio’s controversial visits said: “Recently there has been a rising number of witchcraft related abuses in African communities in the UK. Some families have reportedly tortured to death children believed to be witches or wizards. Abuses related to witchcraft beliefs are often linked to the preaching and activities of witch mongering pastors like Helen Ukpabio.

Igwe thinks that Ukpabio and her collaborators in the UK must have waited till the last minute before announcing their event, and may have avoided disclosing full information and details of her visit in order to not have a repeat of the U.S. visit.

But those in charge of the venue had to cancel the booking made by Ukpabio’s Liberty Gospel Church when they realized the true nature of meeting. They posted a short announcement cancelling the booking on their web site.

The born-again Christian Pentecostal preacher claims to have been betrothed to Satan as a teenager before being rescued from a cult at the age of 17. She now specialises in liberating captives in “deliverance sessions” that critics claim are little more than crude exorcisms.

Amongst her advice to parents is the suggestion: “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 British Home Secretary Theresa May is being urged to step in to prevent a Nigerian “witch hunter” returning to the UK after she flew in to preach to congregations in London.

“The UK government has expressed commitment to stamping out these abuses. But the government needs to translate this commitment into action. Abuses related to witchcraft cannot stop if the authorities continue to allow African ‘evangelical witchdoctors’ into the UK to recharge the witchcraft narratives in black communities.

“Back in 2012, Ukpabio was scheduled to come to the U.S. An international campaign against her ideas about child witches resulted in US authorities denying her visa”.

This is an interesting case of freedom of religious practices. 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) noted that the Government was quick to ban entry to the UK for Islamic preachers whose presence is considered as harmful to the public good, but there was not a similar response for a Christian pastor.

Bob Churchill, of the IHEU, said: “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.”

Gary Foxcroft, of the WHRIN, who has worked extensively in documenting examples of witchcraft abuse, said Ms Ukpabio was one of a number of preachers who regularly travelled to the UK.

“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. Indeed. So this is more than a matter of religious freedom, it’s a matter of children’s safety”.