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Morris Cerullo is a controversial preacher from San Diego, California, who claims that people at his rallies are healed of serious medical conditions by the power of prayer. His posters for a London appearance featured abandoned sticks and wheelchairs. The BBC documentary programme 'Everyman' showed that at least one death resulted from this appearance when a woman who had been told she had been cured of epilepsy stopped taking her tablets and died following a seizure in her bath.

Cerullo bought The Inspiration Network (INSP) in Fort Mill, South Carolina from PTL and Jim Bakker when it went bankrupt during Jim Bakker's scandal in the 1980s. Cerullo's son David now runs the network which he relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina.

In 1991, a European satellite station broadcast a program "Victory with Morris



Cerullo" which was suspended for breaching its British license, until the channel agreed to precede it by a disclaimer that said "all persons experiencing illness should seek medical attention" and admitted that "Morris Cerullo World Evangelism cannot substantiate the claims made by those participants featured in this programme."

In the 1999, the Christian Channel, a UK cable channel, carried an advertisement for one of Cerullo's European rallies, which claimed that "Satanic hordes" had "occupied the principal palaces of power in Europe". The ad was called "Christian Warfare" and described homosexuality as an "abomination" and implied that gays and lesbians should not hold high office. The channel was fined £20,000 for breaching advertising codes requiring political impartiality, for denigrating other religious beliefs, for potentially frightening viewers, and for making statements prejudicial of "respect for human dignity."


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