‘They kept us as slaves’: AP reveals claims against church

Mitch Weiss, Holbrook Kohr and Peter Prengaman Associated Press July 29, 2017

When Andre Oliveira answered the call to leave his Word of Faith Fellowship congregation in Brazil to move to the mother church in North Carolina at the age of 18, his passport and money were confiscated by church leaders — for safekeeping, he said he was told.