By Jose Tembe
BBC News, Maputo, Mozambique

A pastor in Mozambique has died after trying to fast for 40 days, emulating what Christ is said to have done in the Bible

Francisco Barajah, founder of the Santa Trindade Evangelical Church, died at a hospital in the city of Beira, where he was evacuated in critical condition.
After 25 days without food or water, he had lost weight to the point where he could not stand up. He was aged 39

He had been taken to hospital at the insistence of relatives and followers.
Mr Barajah was diagnosed with acute anaemia and failure of his digestive organs.
He was rehydrated with serums and an attempt was made to introduce liquid foods, but it was too late and and he died on Wednesday

The pastor was also a French teacher in the town of Messica in the central province of Manica, bordering Zimbabwe.
Members of the Santa Trindade Church said it was common for the pastor and his followers to fast, but not for that long.
His brother Marques Manuel Barajah said the pastor had fasted, but he challenged the medical diagnosis about his death. "The truth is that my brother suffered from low blood pressure," he said

It is not the first report of such a deadly attempt to imitate Christ's 40-day fast in the desert as described in the Gospel of Matthew.
In 2015, a Zimbabwean man died after 30 days, local media said. In 2006, a British coroner found that a woman died half-way through a similar fast in London.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-64659798

Mumu. Minus one African fool.

Such fasting should only be done under divine instruction and with the help of the holy spirit.

It's not something you can just wake up one day and feel like doing, it's humanly impossible. I believe the highest you should think of doing (dry) is 7 days and even that could kill some people.

Africans and religious fanaticism

Straight to hell fire. Chaii..

Nawa o

adler777:

Such fasting should only be done under divine instruction and with the help of the holy spirit.

It's not something you can just wake up one day and feel like doing, it's humanly impossible. I believe the highest you should think of doing (dry) is 7 days and even that could kill some people.

According to the Bible no human ever abandon food deliberately in the name of FASTING for more than 10 days!

Moses and Jesus never fasted intentionally it was God's presence that sustained them for 40 days and 40 nights, Jesus declared to his disciples how hungry he felt at the end of those days.

When I say African Christians are the MOST foolish people on earth, some people accuse me of been too harsh. Shey u na dey see am ba?

adler777:
Such fasting should only be done under divine instruction and with the help of the holy spirit.

It's not something you can just wake up one day and feel like doing, it's humanly impossible. I believe the highest you should think of doing (dry) is 7 days and even that could kill some people.

Nonsense. NOBODY should stay more than 1 week without water let alone 40 days. Your bible is filled with lies and that is why many African Christians will continue to die if they take the bible as accurate.

YungMillionaire:


Nonsense. NOBODY should stay more than 1 week without water let alone 40 days. Your bible is filled with lies and that is why many African Christians will continue to die if they take the bible as accurate.

May God forgive you...

adler777:
May God forgive you...

the god of the bible is not God. God agrees with me not you or your useless bible.