RE: Damned Pervert Priests - and other assorted Holy Scumbags
August 18, 2026 at 8:40 am
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2026 at 8:42 am by Fake Messiah.)
He calls himself a prophet. But some say this Toronto-area pastor exploited his flock for years
Jodi says she remembers her hands shaking as her married pastor — the man she had for months been told to call “dad” — pulled her onto his lap on a cream-coloured couch in his ministry office.
Just 16 years old at the time, Jodi says she froze as Kofi Danso, a self-described “Man of God,” prophet and the leader of Miracle Arena church, then located in North York, Ont., began to unbutton her pants.
“He was like, ‘Just know that I’m here … I’m your dad.’ He’s whispering these things to me while he’s kissing my neck and fingering me,” the woman, now in her 20s, said in an interview with the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB).
Jodi, whose identity is being protected because she fears repercussions for speaking out, is one of more than a dozen people who have spoken to the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB) alleging they experienced either sexual misconduct or financial manipulation at Miracle Arena For All Nations Church, now located in Vaughan, Ont. north of Toronto.
Miracle Arena is a “charismatic” church situated on a gated 12-acre compound north of Toronto. It’s run by senior pastor Danso and his wife, JoAnne, who claim to “demonstrate the power of God through miracles, signs and wonders” to hundreds of congregants each week — many of whom are refugees or immigrants.
Some have been housed on-site in makeshift shelters or inside the church buildings while others say they have been asked to work for the Danso family to care for the couple’s children and have moved into their home.
Jodi is one of five women interviewed by the IJB who allege Danso engaged in a range of sexual misconduct, including grooming, arranging sexual encounters with them in his church office and arranging for them to have sex with visiting pastors.
Some of the allegations shared with the IJB against Danso go back more than a decade.
While Jodi was a teen at the time of the alleged sexual misconduct, the rest say they were in their early 20s or 30s.
Jodi says she began attending Miracle Arena with her parents in 2017 before being recruited to volunteer for the church’s media team, where she was tasked with shooting videos of Danso’s sermons.
She says Danso began to sexually abuse her in February 2018 after she was tasked with filming the popular 5 a.m. Monday gathering at the church.
Jodi alleges Danso had at least 15 sexual encounters with her over five months. The majority of the time Danso performed oral sex or digitally penetrated her, she said.
On one occasion, while in his office, Jodi says, Danso pulled her wrists, drawing her close to him before laying her flat on his white three-seater couch. He then had non-consensual, unprotected sex with her, she says.
https://nationalpost.com/news/prophet-to...ploitation
Jodi says she remembers her hands shaking as her married pastor — the man she had for months been told to call “dad” — pulled her onto his lap on a cream-coloured couch in his ministry office.
Just 16 years old at the time, Jodi says she froze as Kofi Danso, a self-described “Man of God,” prophet and the leader of Miracle Arena church, then located in North York, Ont., began to unbutton her pants.
“He was like, ‘Just know that I’m here … I’m your dad.’ He’s whispering these things to me while he’s kissing my neck and fingering me,” the woman, now in her 20s, said in an interview with the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB).
Jodi, whose identity is being protected because she fears repercussions for speaking out, is one of more than a dozen people who have spoken to the Investigative Journalism Bureau (IJB) alleging they experienced either sexual misconduct or financial manipulation at Miracle Arena For All Nations Church, now located in Vaughan, Ont. north of Toronto.
Miracle Arena is a “charismatic” church situated on a gated 12-acre compound north of Toronto. It’s run by senior pastor Danso and his wife, JoAnne, who claim to “demonstrate the power of God through miracles, signs and wonders” to hundreds of congregants each week — many of whom are refugees or immigrants.
Some have been housed on-site in makeshift shelters or inside the church buildings while others say they have been asked to work for the Danso family to care for the couple’s children and have moved into their home.
Jodi is one of five women interviewed by the IJB who allege Danso engaged in a range of sexual misconduct, including grooming, arranging sexual encounters with them in his church office and arranging for them to have sex with visiting pastors.
Some of the allegations shared with the IJB against Danso go back more than a decade.
While Jodi was a teen at the time of the alleged sexual misconduct, the rest say they were in their early 20s or 30s.
Jodi says she began attending Miracle Arena with her parents in 2017 before being recruited to volunteer for the church’s media team, where she was tasked with shooting videos of Danso’s sermons.
She says Danso began to sexually abuse her in February 2018 after she was tasked with filming the popular 5 a.m. Monday gathering at the church.
Jodi alleges Danso had at least 15 sexual encounters with her over five months. The majority of the time Danso performed oral sex or digitally penetrated her, she said.
On one occasion, while in his office, Jodi says, Danso pulled her wrists, drawing her close to him before laying her flat on his white three-seater couch. He then had non-consensual, unprotected sex with her, she says.
https://nationalpost.com/news/prophet-to...ploitation
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
