Inside Coptic church prayer centre where mentally ill patients are healed through prayers 1 month ago
Coptic Church founder Father John Pesa 1 talks to a chained mentally ill patient at his Mamboleo based church in Kisumu on January 30,2021. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]
An eerie silence welcomes you to Coptic Holy Ghost Church along Kisumu-Kakamega road near Mamboleo. At least 60 people with different mental illnesses are within the church s compound. Serious cases are isolated and locked up in individual rooms. The people the pastor, Father John Pesa, thinks have mild cases are put in groups.
Those who are recovering are allowed to wander around the compound, but with shackles on their feet. For the past six decades, he has handled thousands of such patients, and some, he says, are healed.