that today has more than 1,000 churches across 70 countries. While its neo-charismatic style – exorcisms, preaching in tongues, etc – give it an American edge, it's actually rooted in the working-class pentecostal tradition of England and Wales.Twenty-three-year-old singer Joseph Coward was brought up as part of the church, in Essex, when it was known as the New Frontiers International. While he feels the NFI might be a different organisation today, his experience was one of homophobia, control tactics and a system that bore "all the calling cards of a cult". After suffering a psychiatric breakdown five years ago, he cut himself away from the group.
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I'd been told a certain type of person wouldn't get into heaven, but when I started getting into the music scene I had a wider group of friends, and I could see they were good people. I also had questions about my budding sexuality.READ ON BROADLY: Inside the Weird World of an Islamic 'Feminist' Cult
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