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Tuesday, 15 April 2014
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Helen Ukpabio could be banned from the UK over fears she is a risk to youngsters

The UK is considering banning the founder of
Liberty Foundation Gospel Ministries and movie
producer, Evang. Helen Ukpabio, from the UK
over fears she is a risk to young people in the
country.

From UK Daily Mail
A Nigerian 'witch-hunter' who claims any child who cries is a 'servant of Satan' could be banned from the UK following calls to 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.
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 here 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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