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Liberia: How Crusade 2024 is breaking demonic strongholds in Nimba

James Fasuekoi

Woman confesses to ‘witchcraft’ acts! A Muslim woman gives her life to Christ, as others surrender their fetishes. All photographs by CHRISEM News Crew

By James Kokulo Fasuekoi|Editor-Publisher|editor@globalekklesia.com

A national Christian revival that kicked off nearly three weeks ago in the historic city of Sanniquellie, located in the country’s main iron ore region of Nimba County, has been breaking aged old demonic strongholds as well as setting people, including youths, free from Satanic power or captivity.

In front of a huge crowd in Saclepea, Thursday night, Rev. Dr. Dagadu displays a talisman he said, bears an ‘eye and mouth.’ These voodoo, referred to by northern Liberian ethnic groups as “Kpangba,” can be themselves dangerous to a none-owner, or believer who touches them. Asked by writer why he touches or picks them up? Dagadu who had been struck multiple times by “witchcraft” replies that these elements become “powerless” once they hit the altars.

The chief crusade organizer Rev. Christian Dagadu, revealed that certain people there had been inadvertently initiated by the demonic ‘underground world’ which gave them the ability to perform divination and witchcraft. But upon confessing and receiving Christ, they got delivered, he adds. 

Dubbed “Crusade 2024,” some of its dramatic moments occurred on the first day of the Saclepea meeting, Wednesday, and also that of the Tappita events last week after a 22-year-old Muslim woman (named held for privacy and security reasons) from a local mosque, stepped forward and received Jesus Christ as her personal Savior.

These talismans, worn around women’s waists mostly, were surrender during one of the nightly meetings. Most, according to deliverance minister Dr. Dagadu, are used to bring owner good luck, break barrenness in women, and serve as protection against witchcraft or snake bites.

Dr. Dagadu, speaking to this writer from Saclepea City, Wednesday evening, stated that the Islamic girl had been initiated while asleep by the demonic world during which she was given power, and did perform divination or “sand-cutting” in her community. 

“We delivered her from it, after she gave her life to Jesus,” Dagadu told Global Ekklesia.

Divination itself, according to Dagadu, involves the practice of witchcraft. It’s in fact associated with necromancy and the Bible shows a clear example in 1 Samuel 28: 8-20, when King Saud goes out of his way to meet the Witch of Endor and asked her to pull the spirit of the Prophet Samuel.

In yet another episode prior, Dagadu said indicated that a woman believed to be 68-year-old, or so stepped to the podium during the Tappita Meeting, confessed to him she’s a “witch!” and wanted to be set free!

These charms or talismans, as they are called, thrown onto the altar by their owners during the crusade.

He said he took the lady aside at the end of the meeting, then assembled his prayer team of warriors and they started a vigorous prayer. The woman, he said was delivered through the Power of the Blood of Jesus Christ! 

Such developments, he narrated, stirred up the spirits of other people in this city, thereby prompting many to walk to the altar in boldness and relinquish their fetishes given them by voodoo men for personal protection. 

A scene from Saclepea. Crowds of people wanting to give their lives to Christ continue to increase daily and nightly, even in the face of spiritual battles since the team arrived in the region.

But like every breakthrough, this move by Crusade 2024, destroying Satanic strongholds and delivering God’s people from captivity hadn’t come without a costly price: just days into the Sanniquellie meeting for instance, a violent rainstorm hit the city and destroyed much of CHRISEM’s equipment. 

Photograph of a section of the damaged CHRISEM electronic equipment after the ‘devil storm’ in Sanniquellie, Nimba.

On the team’s arrival to Tappita, during the first night, according to Dagadu, a huge plum tree that stood next to a house where the team’s women’s pastors had been lodged fell on the nearby building, leaving the one hosting the pastors unharmed. 

A scene of the downed plum tree.

It is something Pastor Dagadu, who had been casting out demons for over 45 years, through the Power of Christ, says “cannot be explained!” For unlike Sanniquellie, where a storm hit, there wasn’t a rain nor storm in Tappita City at the time of this incident.

This scene shows the fallen mango tree in Tappita City.

“No rain, no storm, and it just fell from the roots on the house. The people said, lots of people have been dreaming of a two headed snake coming out of that tree in their dream and the neighbors were singing and praising God the next morning, AMEN,” he wrote to his Facebook page March 19, 2024.  

Similarly, in the Nimba city of Saclepea, the climax of the ongoing crusade, a second mango tree fell behind the platform of the crusade just as they began the revival, but no one got hurt, Dagadu told writer.

Apart from the nightly revivals Pastor Dagadu’s deliverance team hosts daily empowerment seminars in local churches on demonology, church growth, gifts of the Holy Spirit, Christian family marriage and financial prosperity for church laymen and women since the crusade began. 

In this photo, Mother Rev. Jestina Dennis lectures at one of several empowerment church meetings this week in Saclepea City, Nimba. Rev. Dennis is of the Lorma ethnic group and has been speaking to her people via social media regarding how Jesus Christ is using the ongoing revival to change peoples’ lives in that region.

CHRISEM is the acronym for Christian Evangelistic Ministries Inc, the church group that’s spearheading the current nationwide revival. Preachers traveling with on the crusade include ministers like Revs. Oretha Wheazor, Thomas Jones, Jestina Dennis, Finda Klayee, AB Boimah and Bishop John Klayee. Theme for 2024 is: Walking Under An Opened Heaven.

Banner photograph shows elements of all types of talismans surrender during the Saclepea Meeting this week.

Editor’s Note: Global Ekklesia will connect you with Dr. Dagadu’s crusade team if you wish to help with donations for soul-winning.

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James Kokulo Fasuekoi is an award-winning journalist, author, documentary writer and news photographer. He previously covered civil wars in West Africa for both local and international news media, including The Associated Press. Listed on his college’s Dean’s List for academic excellence, he holds an AA Degree in Biblical Theology and became a Bush Foundation Scholar twice in 2017. His works as a civil war journalist in Africa have also brought him face-to-face with the law in his native Liberia and in the U.S. where the Fed subpoenaed him twice to give testimonies as state-witness in two major international war crimes trials of 2017 & 2018 in Philadelphia. Once an African national ballet dancer, he now writes, photographs and dances for Christ. Read profile @ https://globalekklesia.com/profile/