With its beautiful sandy beaches clear blue waters and lush green surrounds fiji is a tropical paradise. Hot on the map either that or you will feel an entourage. But for some it quickly became a kind of hell. I knew as soon as i like stepped foot it was just not normal that she feels doesnt need to woods in the country. One no one investigates a secret of a cult and joins a father on his desperate bid to rescue his son. 7 will night out with friends in downtown saw something c. C. D. The longer it takes for granted. Its a reminder of how close she came to losing her freedom to a mysterious bullet just set this church as an evil organization its a cult and i dont want anyone else to go through what i did i had lost it was. Harrowing. It all started in 2011 after her father died of cancer and her mother in aurora giong joined grace road church this all kind of spiraled when my dad passed really my mother just kind if lost it i was only 13 didnt really know how to take care of my mother i was. Like so heartbroken over with all. Of this would have happened. When you know cecilia as mother became captivated by the sermons of. The charismatic founder of the church who donna more than even is 100. 00 russians on some coverage. So long on. My mother was just kind of saying a lot of weird things like the doctors implanting like things into. Chips microchips that are chips. And like was or people lizard people is the thought of conspiracy theories she kept talking about revelations like the end of the world. Germs day. In preparation for doomsday should knock you decided to move her chosen followers to the South Pacific island of fiji. And 2014 to celias mother and now its she wanted to move there too we made a deal we made a promise that i would go with her. To help or settle it. And i would stay there for 2 weeks. Her mother and the rest of her family were among the 1st of more than 400 grace road followers to move to fiji. While she was there celia witnessed some of shocked juicer men. What was. The truth its it was weird. Not my cup of tea a lot of wheeling a lot of shouting she would. Verbally abuse a lot of people. Going to call the names. Of all names and like what i think liar. Or things like that. Which is not normal for a Church Service obviously and i was. Taken aback. When it came time for cecilia to leave Church Members tried to convince her to stay but she refused she couldnt wait to get home i actually started packing like the day before and when i went. You know pack my computer my laptop it was gone i realized my passport was gone that when you started to panic. Yeah panicking a lot i was screaming for help. Cecilia ran onto the road flagged down a pass in police car and fled to the korean embassy. Officials issued her emergency passport she managed to fly back to school even after her mother canceled her original plane ticket what happened when you came back to korea so when i was in fiji the whole time i didnt realize this but my mother saw. Everything. No money. No house my entire family their houses. So i had literally nowhere to go. With the help of friends cecilia slowly began rebuilding her life in south korea she started a go fund me page to raise money to start over but she soon became a target for online vitriol from Church Members including her own mother. I do not think of her as my daughter any longer she who does not listen. To my wants and goes against god doesnt make it feel to me this. Words. I dont know me and i am much happier without them and. To celia has not spoken to her mother in more than 3 years and if that make you feel to lose your mother to a cult i realize she is a lost cause but i just wasnt healthy for me to keep time i saw it just let her go its its no use keeping in touch with her. Cecilia isnt the only one to lose a loved one to grace wrote. About 4 hours from sore on a farm near the city of daegu lee youd say is starting over after escaping fiji with his family. Like cecilias mother he was also caught in the thrall of jews preaching. On his. Chili marks a new one. But he says he became disillusioned after witnessing the abuse of other followers in fiji he decided to escape with his wife and youngest son but his eldest son john one is still in fiji and we feel is to lead. A more mature on board with saddam because hes going to come in on google or ship what im going to chill through war. Editor to war career to cock it then when. I go to. Get on a. Sunday im on the up. Because how badly. Can and calling cards little girl years. Before you can say and his family went to the Promised Land they were told to sell all their belongings and give the proceeds to the church but there was one final rite of passage. About the threshing ritual. And. To get in a market attrition me being 2 runs a cool. 100 had on me. And the other didnt go. The sun going in all this you. Couldnt get turned it all again. No no his return has been described by others. They say followers are asked to take turns hidden each other often violently. Sometimes children also. Pushing them in on me when we didnt. Get it going on. The. Former members say told her followers not to seek medical treatment. In at least 2 cases cult members with Serious Health conditions requiring dialysis did not receive the lifesaving procedure. It is on kings insole in west to ones admitting clinton so. Tucson anguish economy them. Total when it than isnt. Going to iran is done by just those and the University Professor todd g. Il has been studying cults for 30 years he says grace wrote church has all the hallmarks of one. Song. Has over us when grow corn honey tag on to chores or it call door peter. Saw simple to look at overall to each over. New years or so he touched on mothering it out one. Question though those who were. Some of the. Professor tart believes social pressures and the countrys struggling economy makes koreans susceptible to cults even although more couple. Couldnt manage. Or grown old or young or quick or iran. Or. To progress. Could. You isnt it up. He says authorities should intervene to stop groups like grace road and support people who escape today the professor is meeting to find out more about his experiences some ones you can see no. Television at the housing or honduras as was all. But the wind chill on. The configuration. He went to as a single machine is really nothing to do im gaining how you think. Back on his farm those worries weigh heavily on you and say that hes determined to try and bring his son home. Even imagine one solitary one. Month theres just no. 1 oclock to do all the heartache. And i dont know much out of. It i wonder are on the way that i dont know how hard do you think you convince him to come back with you. And then the woman on what i need to do. When you know. I would you dont have to pick on me she will we see anybody. She she understood on a similar. After allegations of abuse both korean and Fijian Police investigated grace road church and in july. 2018 several members were arrested including its founder she is facing 7 years in prison and is appealing sherak jill was convicted of fraud child abuse and assault among other charges despite this the Church Continues to operate here and teach. Grace road church now led by should do son daniel him shows it sanctuary well. Its beautiful and peaceful. And its also clear when we arrive in fiji that its much more than a church. Its a big business. The grace road group owns dozens of restaurants here salons Hardware Stores and even a dental clinic. Its invested millions in the country. Former members say its korean workforce is on paid. On. Im sure got you you dont run to the tongue. Go it almost. Doesnt go chuck charge it archer. The group has mastered close ties with local politicians and has been awarded look creative government contracts including renovations and extensions to Government House and the Prime Ministers residence. And their ambitions may not end there 101 east has obtained exclusive footage of chanel jew servant which revealed the cult ultimate goal. Under she. Says sessions and in the 100. 00. 2 movies is good only has hired a transatlantic and of. Koreans allude to gang. She feels passive. So is this where the school was supposed to be built. This is a place. Where the riverland or. Greece will. Serve a nice. Is from the day you but tribe who live about an hour from fijis capital suva. The tribe or at least nearly a 100 acres of land to the church with an agreement that grace road would build a school on part of it but this hasnt happened instead its all been converted to farmland. Not transparent. The church claims to employ more than 200 feet. So everybody we are meeting tonight worked at grace road. Its what a right to know what worked as a welder for grace road. Late sister kitty lethal worked at the churchs dairy farm. Both describe working conditions that do not comply with fijis labor laws how do you feel grace role it treats its fijian staff. Some of the little honey. The whole of. A twat day says he saw the cult members being hit by their bosses. One day a 28. 00 fell off scaffolding after he said he was told to move it while he was standing on it he shattered his left eye doctors inserted a metal breaks and told him it would take 2 years to recover which unless. You look. At the maybe a little bit enabling him doing. The annoying. A twat day says grace wrote paid his medical bills and promised him compensation after he returned to work the pain became too unbearable to continue and he was fired hes been unable to find steady work since. Indeed no one would. See me on a knuckle while do sister. Died of a heart attack in her living quarters on grace rhodes farm he attributes her death to stress and physical exhaustion mind you you can only look at the look where. The 2 men are reaching to get. Under fijian law grace road should have provided her with transport. Or one of them up in a. Short time. And they didnt do anything for her fear all they did. They didnt even send flowers. They say work or. Those are scared to criticize grace wrote because of the churchs influence with the government. From a company where. Limited to complete you dont limit in. After repeated requests to various government offices and ministries including the attorney general and the Prime Minister no one from the fijian government was available to speak with Us Investment fiji the Agency Responsible for Foreign Investment said it was told not to speak about grace road. Levy and say has arrived in fiji his 1st stop is the korean embassy. Mr lee how is it going. On like you see it. On the skin damage and are you getting the country. The embassy has helped several former cult members leave fiji in recent months by providing emergency passports and safe passage to the airport but it doesnt always work out. But despite the embassies help this desperate mother was unable to rescue her daughter. What happened what are they saying. On the wall. So. Youre on your own. Grace road initially agree to an interview but they changed their minds and started ignoring our calls. When we try to film a grace road petrol station thats under construction. A worker demands to know what were doing and calls head office for your war you dont want to. Just here taking some pictures were allowed to take pictures from public property thats the law in fiji. Weve given you more than a month to respond to our interview requests. When we go to the dairy farm where some a. Sister worked members and leave. The law and you drive a car while you were brought up the matter was it. Was like. We. Were doing a story on grace road and its businesses in fiji and so this is a business ok were just taking a. Wrong because you take it wrong grace if that were the case still the idea that you should ask for us. Is also being blocked by grace road the church tells him through the embassy that hell never be allowed on their property so we agree to record a message for him. Yeah. Because i wanted to. Get it. So that. Trillion or so but independent. I was little. Did i do it when i. Did you could tell her what. To do. We visit grace road to deliver his message. Good morning sir. We thought wed try again to see if mr kim was here those and we just tried to want to deliver a message to chong one i wonder if hes here. Hes not here you know when might be back should we try again we just wanted to play a video for him. With. Us. So theres no way that we can get him we show this video to his son. Were just asking on behalf of the father. So. With no other way to contact you and say son were forced to leave. You and say is devastated. Before he heads to the airport he makes one last trip to the farm desperate to catch a glimpse of his son. Into also others were boarded on some of the more than and. Other wood on the wall. For a ticket im not a good team on me. But how you can. Turn on people whove always been on the. Other day that she and ill give you. Each edge again one isnt because he you know those guys you saw in our community. And he vows hell keep fighting to protect others from what his familys been through. 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