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Are_grits_groceries Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 06:28 AM
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Lou Engle's Exploitation of Rifqa Bary ( She converted to Christianity & ran away from home.)
Edited on Tue May-18-10 06:30 AM by Are_grits_groceries
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Several of the groups that Rifqa Bary became associated with both before and after she ran away are part of the growing ideology of the New Apostolic Reformation, a very specific sector of charismatic evangelical belief which teaches that Christians must take "dominion" over the earth. Both Richard Barthlomew (Bartholomew's Notes on Religion) and Kyle Mantyla (Right Wing Watch), monitored the unfolding drama regularly last summer and fall.

Rifqa was involved with Lou Engle's Bound4Life and the International House of Prayer (IHOP), a now worldwide movement started by Mike Bickle in Kansas City (along with his Israel Mandate). Rifqa met Brian Williams, the aspiring minister who baptized her, through Bound4Life and was videotaped giving her testimony at her local International House of Prayer at the age of sixteen. In the video Rifqa states that the first time she told someone at school she was a Christian, she just wanted to fit in. Lou Engle and Mike Bickle advertise their aim of building a movement of Nazirites, or holy warriors for the end times, who will be defined by their purity and commitment, and bestowed with supernatural gifts such as healilng. Rifqa talks in the video about "raising up the Nazirites," terminology from Lou Engle's often repeated statement about the Nazirite Uprising,

"America is receiving Her apostles, prophets, and evangelists, but She has not yet seen Her Nazirites!"
In her transcript with the Florida authorities, Rifqa describes Engle as "like her hero."
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http://www.talk2action.org/story/2010/5/17/151130/395

Dear Gawd! I didn't realize this was the rest of the story. She has been in the clutches of the mad.

There is much more in this article about her situation. It isn't the somewhat simple story as portrayed in the MSM. She needs to be sent to someone who can cut off communication with these people. Gawd!
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fishnchips54 Donating Member (8 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-18-10 08:13 AM
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1. They seem to have used coercive cult tactics on Bary
It's an terrible tragedy for her family.
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