Controversial Zimbabwean church has bought premises in Edinburgh and is setting up ministries in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Fife
A church body that enables “gay exorcism” as conversion therapy and believes in witchcraft is conducting a major expansion in Scotland.
The Pentecostal model church, which has a huge following in Zimbabwe, where it was formed by “Apostle” Ezekiel Guti in 1960 and known as ZAOGA. “It is now time legislators urgently review ‘the advancement of religion’ as a charitable purpose. It must not be used as a back door for religious groups to promote conversion therapy and the subjugation of women.”One “Apostle’s Update” blog post on the charity’s website in 2017 describes how the spirit “bound him for many years” but that he was freed during a “miracle night” in St Kitts and Nevis.
An article on Guti on The Conversation website told how he set off on a “reverse mission” – taking the African gospel to a “backsliding” western world. A blog from 2015 praises the deliverance of 17 people in Zimbabwe from “spiritual husbands, bitterness, homosexuality, witchcraft, satanism - to mention a few”.
Arthurs is author of the book Foolish Things Wives Do To Mess Up Their Marriages - which has a foreword by Ezekiel Guti.It declares that the it is growing fast due to “tithing” - where the congregation hand over 10% of their income to the church. In the UK, charities are legally required to act in the public benefit but OSCR has tended to turn a blind eye to the most controversial Old Testament beliefs if they are held in the name of religion.
In 2020, the United Nations Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity called for a global ban on conversion therapy.
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