It doesn’t get much uglier than this.
From the Christian Post this morning:
The son of charismatic Christian evangelist Benny Hinn was detained along with two bodyguards employed by the ministry for allegedly assaulting a deaf and dumb man during an evangelistic event in Manaus, Brazil.
The Daily Mail reported Monday that 21-year-old Joshua Hinn, Caleb Shirk, 26, and Konstantins Konstantinovs, 34, apprehended Hestephenson Araujo as he approached minister Hinn during his sermon with a bottle of water. Araujo had reportedly attended the miracle healing crusade on Saturday at the Provos da Amazonia arena in hopes of getting a blessing from Hinn, who claims to have an “anointing,” or special power from God, that gives him the supernatural ability to heal people.
Hinn, Shirk and Konstantins allegedly grabbed Araujo, 21, whom they thought was going to throw water at the minister. They are accused of taking the deaf and dumb man to a trailer where they interrogated and beat him, the Daily Mail reports. Araujo was eventually rescued by police, who had been called to the arena by “concerned members of the public.”
Although the three men were detained on suspicion of torture, no charges were filed. They reportedly told police they did not know Araujo, who was treated at a hospital for his injuries, was unable to hear or talk.
Araujo’s father claimed he made a deal with Benny Hinn’s representatives to refrain from pressing charges allegedly in exchange for a “large sum of money,” the Daily Mail reports. However, local authorities reportedly plan to continue investigating the alleged attack on Araujo.
little different spin than the Book of Acts…. in Acts the people beat the Apostles….
Now the Apostles are beating the people…. ahhhh the times they are a change’n…..
This kind of salacious reporting is really obnoxious. I would almost be led to believe that you enjoy reporting this kind of stuff.
Casey,
Obviously, you’ve not read much of my stuff here.
I don’t enjoy this kind of thing at all. Quite the opposite.
This case in point… this was merely a quote of the report at the Christian Post.
Read around… you’ll see.
Todd
I am pretty sure Todd doesnt enjoy or take pleasure in posting this stuff. It is informational… and it also has teaching aspects – these types of stories are reported by the media, sensationalized and we wonder why the world hates us, they dont hate us because of the cause of Christ…they hates us because of mess like this that is anything but Christ like. We have to be informed about incidents like this so that when the unchurched asks, mentions, etc we can refute it. Besides all that, stories like this harm the Kingdom in general. Not from Todd posting it (he is just making us aware)… Todd – thanks for keeping people informed… because ignoring bad news wont make it go away.