6.Pastor Chris’s faith healing claims have courted controversy
For some time now, Pastor Chris’ claims that he can use faith to heal medical conditions including HIV/AIDS have caused controversy and attracted widespread criticism all over the world. In 2011, South Africa’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) banned the Christ Embassy church from airing claims of faith healing following a complaint filed by the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC). TAC claimed that Pastor Chris’ church used television and other media to spread false claims that people attending their services could be healed of various diseases including heart disease and HIV/AIDS. TAC even presented evidence that a woman who had been infected with an extreme variant of drug resistant TB stopped taking her medication after Christ Embassy church in Johannesburg convinced her that she had been cured. TAC say the woman died later and even infected her own children with the deadly disease.
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