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The following in italics is from the Sydney Morning Herald article at http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/exorcism-for-the-sick/2008/03/16/1205602195122.html
It's about a dubious charity called Mercy Girls. It isolates people from the world, and does nothing helpful to assist clients. Please be wary about giving your money to this charity.
THEY call themselves the Mercy Girls. And after years of searching they have found each other.
Bound by separate, damaging experiences at the hands of an American-style ministry operating in Sydney and the Sunshine Coast, these young women have clawed their way back to begin a semblance of a life again.
Desperate for help, they had turned to Mercy Ministries suffering mental illness, drug addiction and eating disorders.
Do you know more? Message 0424 SMS SMH (+61 424 767 764) or email us with information or images.
Instead of the promised psychiatric treatment and support, they were placed in the care of Bible studies students, most of them under 30 and some with psychological problems of their own. Counselling consisted of prayer readings, treatment entailed exorcisms and speaking in tongues, and the house was locked down most of the time, isolating residents from the outside world and sealing them in a humidicrib of pentecostal religion.
It's about a dubious charity called Mercy Girls. It isolates people from the world, and does nothing helpful to assist clients. Please be wary about giving your money to this charity.
THEY call themselves the Mercy Girls. And after years of searching they have found each other.
Bound by separate, damaging experiences at the hands of an American-style ministry operating in Sydney and the Sunshine Coast, these young women have clawed their way back to begin a semblance of a life again.
Desperate for help, they had turned to Mercy Ministries suffering mental illness, drug addiction and eating disorders.
Do you know more? Message 0424 SMS SMH (+61 424 767 764) or email us with information or images.
Instead of the promised psychiatric treatment and support, they were placed in the care of Bible studies students, most of them under 30 and some with psychological problems of their own. Counselling consisted of prayer readings, treatment entailed exorcisms and speaking in tongues, and the house was locked down most of the time, isolating residents from the outside world and sealing them in a humidicrib of pentecostal religion.
