An Experience on Coercive Conversion Program, What’s the Naked Fact?

An Experience on Coercive Conversion Program, What’s the Naked Fact?

 

 

  The social weaks are mostly subjects of coercive conversion programs. Among them, women and students who are the victims under patriarch’s family culture are usually targeted. If one goes to the church which pre-existing churches call cult, the person will be the right person under coercive conversion. A pregnant woman is also not an exception. Ms. Lim had an experience on coercive conversion with imprisonment when she was six months pregnant. We can see the fact through her appeal on coercive conversion.

 

  Ms. Lim was a wife of normal family and a mother of two children. When she was six months pregnant, she was the victim of coercive conversion imprisoned in a church belonging to the Presbyterian Church of Korea.

 

 

  The reason why she wrote the appeal was to tell the severe harms of human rights abuse under coercive conversion programs and show conversion pastors in true colors and stand the correct human rights in South Korea. At this moment, there are victims who get handcuffs, sleeping pills, kidnapping, and confinement under coercive conversion.

 

  Ms. Lim had a compulsory coercive conversion imprisoned in a church’s housing for 3 days by her relatives whom a conversion pastor had instigated in August of 2007. The day of coercive conversion, her younger brother got a call to her telling that her father had an motorcycle accident and went to emergency room so she had to went the first floor of apartment. But the place she arrived was not a hospital but other place.

 

  She who was in confusion tried to find her cell phone to request a help, but her younger brother already took her phone so she couldn’t do.

 

  The place where she was had locks and all doorknobs were removed. The housing had not a fax or phone to call outside.

 

  About 9 o’clock, conversion pastor Kang and missionary Lim who run the heterodox counselor at a church in Gwangju, Korea came to the place. More than 10 people who followed pastor Kang sit in front of her, and the terribly coercive conversion started. About 20 people sit round centering her and her relatives and there was threatening environment.

 

 

  The conversion pastor told to her that originally she had to go to a mountain or be tied and took off her wearings, but because of her being pregnant, specially she got an education in a housing. Despite passing lots of time, she had an extreme anxiety when she went to a sealed place.

 

 

  Coercive conversion program is a religious torture in a modern version. Conversion pastors had victims sit on hard chairs and conducted the programs. Even pastor Lim told all slanders and curse in front of her face when she had paralysis and dropped down, and he treated her as insane person.

 

  In hot and wet summer, the pastor also did not let her wash in a small and sealed place.

 

  Before coercive conversion, her family was harmonious.

 

  Because a self-designated heterodox counselor interfered her family, her husband submitted his resignation and her daughter got emotional instability so her family was getting breakdown.

 

  Despite the unfair happening she kept to care for her family, so her younger brother and her husband went to Shincheonji Church of Jesus to check whether the conversion pastor’s words were true.

 

  As the result, they realized the all words of the conversion pastor were false and they became reliable supporters for her faith.

 

 

  The real home wrecker is conversion pastor. Conversion pastors violate one’s human rights to make money and conduct illegal coercive conversion programs. I wish their true colors come out to the world.