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Title: Texas Pastor Arrested, Held on $100,000 Bond After Performing 'Resurrection Ceremony' on Toddler Starved for 25 Days to Rid Him of 'Demons' (Toddler Died)
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christianpost.com
URL Source: http://www.christianpost.com/news/t ... s-to-rid-him-of-demons-137568/
Published: Apr 15, 2015
Author: BENGE NSENDULUKA
Post Date: 2015-05-13 08:13:08 by Gatlin
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Views: 2126
Comments: 11
Texas pastor, Araceli Meza, who operated a church at her suburban Dallas home, was arrested for allegedly helping starve a 2-year-old boy to death to rid him of demons then holding a resurrection ceremony shortly after he died to try to revive him. A female pastor is being held on $100,000 bond at a Texas jail after being arrested on Monday and charged with injury to a child for allegedly performing a "resurrection ceremony" on a dead 2-year-old boy she claimed was possessed by "demons." Pastor Aracely Meza, 49, reportedly held the bizarre ritual last month at her home in Balch Springs, which is 15 miles east of Dallas and also operates as a church known as Iglesia Internacional Jesus es el Rey. Investigators claim the child was starved for nearly a month in a bid to rid him of demonic forces because his parents believed that he was "possessed" but he ultimately died. "She's been charged with injury to a child," Balch Springs police Lt. Mark Maret told The Christian Post on Wednesday. "She's still in our jail but she's not talking about [the allegations] at all right now." He added that it is unclear whether Meza has retained an attorney. Video footage of the resurrection ceremony show Meza, who is a second-ranking officer at the home church, holding the dead boy and reciting prayers to him in Spanish while also speaking in tongues. She refers to him as Benjamin but his identity has not yet been made public. "In the name of Jesus, I'm utilizing this oil to try to get him back to life," Meza can be heard yelling into a microphone. Witnesses told police that the boy was starved for 25 days before his death on March 21 because his parents believed fasting would help cleanse him of evil. "They didn't give the child any food for about 25 days," said Maret. "They just gave him some water, which ultimately caused the child to die." One congregant, Nazareth Zurita, told police that she saw the child "looking frail and weak" a day before the resurrection ceremony and that he fell and hit his head several times but she did not help him "due to his demon possession." The resurrection ceremony was reportedly held by Meza and her church leader husband, Daniel Meza, the day after his death on March 22, but the attempts for a miracle failed to revive him. His parents are believed to have returned with his body to their native Mexico for burial but did not report the death. "Apparently... they had a ceremony called 'the rising,' trying to resurrect the child back to life," Maret said. Delia Guadalupe Oyervides Herrera, another congregant at the church, told investigators that she made attempts to feed the toddler during the fast "but was scolded by the pastors of the church," according to the affidavit. Upon asking the boy's mother why she condoned his suffering she was "advised that it was God's will." Another church member, Delia Guadalupe Oyervides Herrera, told police she tried several times to feed the child during the 25-day fast, "but was scolded by the pastors of the church," according to the affidavit. She asked the child's mother why she would allow her child to be starved and was "advised that it was God's will." Witnesses say Meza, who acted as vice president of the church, "was considered a prophet" who could communicate directly with God and share spiritual messages with congregants. She reportedly lives at the home church residence with her husband Daniel and several others. Julia Contreras, a neighbor of the Mezas, said cars would fill the street every Sunday. "It would be packed with cars every Wednesday, sometimes Saturday and mainly on Sunday," she said with another neighbor Bryan Cruz telling WFAA "when it was church hours they would set it up as a church, then when it was over, back to a home."
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#1. To: Gatlin (#0)
Charismatic whackjobs. This is my surprised face. No, really.
You may not be old enough to remember this one:
Not that one specifically but aren't they all the same? I think so.
They are...
If the good pastors sit back and say nothing, the con men and frauds get all the loot and destroy the reputation of Christianity. And now they bewail the sudden decline in Americans identifying themselves as Christian. They have only themselves to blame. They let the wolves rampage through their folds, to use a biblical metaphor.
"Gimme that old-time religion......"
Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority? (Ron Paul,2012)
We have some of that type here. One of them even claims to have wrestled with the devil and had messenger birds from the almighty fly into his head.
We have some of that type here... Absolutely, we do. Their uncritical zeal coupled with their possessive enthusiasm appears to have convinced them that just believing in God and living a moral life is simply not enough. The have developed an uncontrollable urge to constantly engage in behaviors to broadcast and demonstrate their faith whenever and however they possibly can….going to the extreme in doing so. It seem the more they believe, the more they feel that have to show it. While never realizing that the more they show it, the more they turn others off listening to them.
The closest my mother ever came to starving me was And my grandmother fed (or attempted to feed) my mother liver -
And now they bewail the sudden decline in Americans identifying themselves as Christian. They have only themselves to blame. They let the wolves rampage through their folds, to use a biblical metaphor. Yep
Video footage of the resurrection ceremony show Meza, who is a second-ranking officer at the home church, holding the dead boy and reciting prayers to him in Spanish while also speaking in tongues. She refers to him as Benjamin but his identity has not yet been made public.
#2. To: TooConservative (#1)
#3. To: TooConservative (#1)
#4. To: Gatlin (#3)
You may not be old enough to remember this one:
#5. To: TooConservative (#4)
#6. To: Gatlin (#5)
(Edited)
#7. To: Gatlin (#0)
Investigators claim the child was starved for nearly a month in a bid to rid him of demonic forces because his parents believed that he was "possessed" but he ultimately died.
#8. To: Gatlin (#0)
Witnesses say Meza, who acted as vice president of the church, "was considered a prophet" who could communicate directly with God and share spiritual messages with congregants.
#9. To: rlk (#8)
Witnesses say Meza, who acted as vice president of the church, "was considered a prophet" who could communicate directly with God and share spiritual messages with congregants.
#10. To: Gatlin (#0)
She asked the child's mother why she would allow her child
to be starved and was "advised that it was God's will."
trying to feed me beef liver - which I refused to eat.
All of my life I have refused to eat it, in fact.
which she didn't eat either. Must be some form of 'motherly
torture'.
#11. To: TooConservative (#6)
If the good pastors sit back and say nothing, the con men and frauds get all the loot and destroy the reputation of Christianity.
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