Controversial Camberwell church which offered Covid “cure” is taken over by Charity Commission
A faith healer who sold £91 “plague protection kits” claiming they could shield people from Covid-19 has had the running of his church taken over by the charity watchdog.
Bishop Climate Wiseman of the Kingdom Church in Camberwell, London, claimed a bottle of oil and some red yarn would protect his followers from the virus.
In a blog, he wrote “it is by faith you can be saved from the virus”.
He said his church was not telling people to ignore government advice, adding his message was from the Bible.
But now the Charity Commission has appointed an interim manager to The Kingdom Church GB.
The commission opened a statutory inquiry into the charity in August 2020 following concerns about the accuracy of information provided to the commission regarding the charity’s income and expenditure.
The inquiry is looking into the trustees’ compliance with their legal duties and management of the charity’s resources and financial affairs, including charity funds potentially being unaccounted for and misapplied.
A statement from the commission this morning said: “The regulator has serious ongoing concerns about the charity’s administration, governance, and the financial relationship with its two subsidiary companies, World Conquerors Christian Centres and Kingdom Church.
The Commission found the charity does not have a bank account and charity funds have instead been deposited into the charity’s subsidiaries’ bank accounts. The subsidiaries have since been removed from the charity’s control and the inquiry is trying to determine whether this was done lawfully.
“As a result, the Commission exercised its powers under the Charities Act 2011 to appoint an interim manager, Virginia Henley of Hewitsons LLP, on 15 February 2021 to conduct a review of the charity and its relationship with these subsidiary companies. Following this initial review, the interim manager will consider the charity’s future operation and viability.”
Bishop Wiseman – whose Twitter account is labelled “A Master Prophet, Anointed By God To Guide Into Your Future. Dream Interpretor and Business spiritual Mentor” – said at the time the investigation was started: “I’m a Christian and there is a way that the Bible says to protect us from plagues.
“I have not told anybody to get out of your house, go anywhere or whatever.”
His blog said people would be protected “by covering yourself with the divine plague protection oil and wearing the scarlet yarn on your body.
“That is why I want to encourage you, if you haven’t done so already, to get your divine plague protection kit today!”
Mr Wiseman told the PA news agency the church, which is a registered charity, had sold more than 1,000 of the kits, which were originally priced at £91.
He has previously insisted the church was not selling the kits, and that the price tag was only to cover the cost of the ingredients, yarn and postage and packaging.
The website link to buy them was deactivated following criticism from Southwark council. The same month, the Charity Commission, which regulates charities in England and Wales, said: “We are looking into the serious concern about Kingdom Church GB’s alleged sale of false Covid-19 protection devices, as a matter of urgency.”
The plague protection kit is one of many anointing oils offered by Mr Wiseman for a range of problems, including oil for peace, unlimited success oil and anointing oil for good marriages.
On the Kingdom Church’s website, it claims thousands of people have been healed from “all sorts” of sicknesses and disease since it was founded in 2005.
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