A controversial South African pastor who is at the center of a recent incident in which six of his congregants died after ingesting Jik has said what they drunk was the blood of Jesus Christ.
Pastor Ruffus Phala of the Ark Center Ministry has told South Africa's Daily Sun that he had turned the bleaching agent into the blood of Jesus before administering it to random members of his congregation whom he handpicked.
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