Netflix's new documentary "In the Name of God: Betrayal of Faith" debuted on March 3rd. The traumatic experience of being sexually assaulted.
The documentary also broke out in a legal battle. The Korean court filed a lawsuit against Netflix and the South Korean TV station MBC. The court rejected the provisional application on March 2.
28-year-old former Providence Church member Ye Xuan (Korean name: Jung Soo-jung) was interviewed in "In the Name of God: Betrayal of Faith", accusing the leader of Providence Church Zheng Mingxi for molesting and sexually assaulting in fluent Korean, hoping that the public will understand alerted.
Ye Xuan also attended a press conference in South Korea in March 2022 to accuse the Providence Church. The content of the comprehensive documentary is consistent with what she said at the press conference. When she was still a high school student in 2011, she felt empty and met a Providence Church believer in Causeway Bay. She joined the Providence Church. A few years later, she flew directly to South Korea and was quickly promoted to a high-level believer. She also worked as a translator for the church and participated in live videos.
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Since then, she has had the opportunity to have "one-on-one contact" with the leader. She said that she was sexually assaulted for the first time in 2018. She felt strange and confused at the time, but later, other believers told her that "it was God's love."
The documentary pointed out that Zheng Mingxi denied that the two had a sexual relationship, but the recording was broadcast in the film. A voice suspected of Zheng Mingxi said to Ye Xuan, "Hold me, hold me tight, and say you will love the Lord forever", and "Wow , The ass is so big... Are you comfortable?", "I seem to have 50 orgasms" and other explicit words.
Ye Xuan burst into tears and pointed out that "what he did was really perverted" and "really, really dirty".
In addition to Ye Xuan, many other women interviewed in the film accused Zheng Mingxi of contacting young women on the grounds of "interview" and "physical examination", and preferring tall women with a height of more than 170 centimeters. Fingers will stretch out claws, and even have group sex. Some former believers talked about being brainwashed at that time.
The video also shows that the Lijiao has been asking Ye Xuan not to accept the interview. When she went to South Korea to prepare for the interview, she found an unknown vehicle following her, which made her very scared.
After the documentary was broadcast, Ye Xuan's boyfriend and artist Fong Lishen expressed his support for his girlfriend on the 4th, and will accompany her to appear in court in Korea in the future.
"In the Name of God: Betrayal of Faith" was released on Netflix this afternoon (3rd).
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The leader fled to Hong Kong
Preliminary Church was originally called Christian Gospel Mission Society (also known as JMS). The leader Zheng Mingxi was born in South Korea in 1945. He began to preach in Seoul in the late 1970s and aimed at many universities to attract students. According to the documentary, He established as many as 200 to 250 branch churches.
Zheng Mingxi will call himself "Messiah" (Messiah, which means the savior). According to Korean media, he will say to the believers, "Can't you see God? Can't you see? Look at me, God."
The church continued to grow. In 1999, a female believer was kidnapped and beaten after leaving the church. Fortunately, she escaped, and the alleged sexual assault by the leader of the church was exposed. Zheng Mingxi quickly fled South Korea, and once fled to Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan. In 2003, he was arrested by the Immigration Department in Hong Kong for overstaying in Hong Kong, but later absconded and absconded. In 2007, he was arrested again in mainland China. He was deported to South Korea. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison in February 2009, until 2018 He was released, but news spread that he was preaching again and suspected of committing a crime.
▼"In the Name of God: Betrayal of Faith" Korean version trailer▼
Court rejects Protestant Church's application to ban broadcasting
This documentary has also attracted much attention in South Korea. On February 17, Rekyo filed a provisional application to the court to ban the broadcast of the documentary, targeting Netflix and MBC, criticizing the film for violating the principle of the presumption of innocence and harming religious freedom.
On March 2, the Seoul District Court rejected the provisional application of Rigyo. The judge stated that "MBC and Netflix have collected a considerable amount of objective and subjective data and made programs based on this. Only based on the materials submitted by Rigyo, It is difficult to conclude that the main content about Providence in the program is not true." "In the Name of God: Betrayal of Faith" will debut in South Korea on March 3 as scheduled.
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