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which killed four police in 2020. The truck driver, Mohinder Singh, claims he raised issues about his fatigue and delusions with his boss, Simiona Tuteru, also known as Simon, who laid hands on him and prayed before they agreed Singh would drive one last load.Tuteru is a senior leader and was a missionary in Africa for the Potter’s House, a hardline church which believes in faith healing and links medical conditions to specific sins which can be “cast out” through prayer and repentance.
When she had severe headaches, she was brought before the congregation for prayer. When she experienced severe back pain, she was discouraged from seeing a chiropractor and told the pain was evil “magic”.Amy Higginson, a former member of Potter’s House Christian Fellowship In the late 1970s, Mitchell travelled all over the world, including Australia, where he spent almost a month preaching throughout Western Australia. The first church, and what remains the “mother church” within the religious sect in Australia, was in the Perth suburb of Beechboro.Former church member Katrina Turner
Followers are strongly advised not to date anyone from outside the church, and women are expected to be subservient in marriage. Same-sex relationships are classed as “sexual sin” and “perverted behaviour”.Commitments for followers are intense. Services are on Wednesdays and twice on Sundays, with Bible studies, prayer meetings, outreach excursions, concerts and other activities scheduled on the other days.
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