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The recent “resurrection” of an unnamed man at the Hallelujah Ministries by pastor Alph Lukau has sparked a #ResurrectionChallenge on social media in which users are having a go at recreating the infamous scene that has been viewed thousands of times over the past 24 hours.
In a statement on Monday, the parlour where the body had initially reported to have been kept, Kings and Queens Funeral Services, distanced itself from the supposed resurrection.
They denied that the man’s body had ever been in their care or that he’d ever even been dead, to begin with.
They said they had been approached by “alleged family members of the deceased” who had told them they had encountered a dispute with a different funeral service provider and wanted to use their transport services, which the company agreed to.
During the “miracle”, the family alleged they had wanted to take the corpse to Zimbabwe. A woman shouted that they’d noticed the man beginning to move at the funeral parlour.
According to the deceased’s supposed landlord, the man had previously gotten sick and started “coughing a lot” on Friday.
“We took him to the hospital and they said they could not help him because he did not have papers, so we took him to the doctor and he died there,” she claimed.
The family then claimed they took the body to the mortuary, where it was kept until Sunday.
Although Lukau faces allegations that his miracle was staged and there was nothing remotely “real” about it, social media users have once again found a way to highlight the humour in the situation by creating miracles of their own with #ResurrectionChallenge in addition to questioning the resurectee’s acting skills.
Pastor Lukau is not the only pastor performing miracles, however.
According to Rapport, congregants of the Volle Evangeliese Kerk van God in eMalahleni (Witbank) are convinced that they also witnessed a woman being raised from the dead by a visiting pastor two weeks ago.
The publication reports that an elderly woman by the name of Tracey Forsyth who suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure had “an incident” during the service that left her laying lifeless on a bench. Fellow churchgoers tried to revive her to no avail.
Pastor Deon Hockey then placed his hands on her and prayed until she reportedly woke up and started breathing again.
Despite the congregants’ insistence that they witnessed a resurrection, the pastor is not taking credit for this and Forsyth refuses to comment on the matter.
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