Torben Sondergaard, a pastor from Denmark, is being detained in Florida,
without any formal charges.
With this video series, we want to make you aware of his case.
And we will show you evidence that there is a fight going on.
a fight over the gospel of Jesus Christ.
It is an incredible story, where things are not always what they seem.
Proverbs 18:17 I a lawsuit the first to speak seems right, until someone comes
and cross-examines.
In 2017 Torben was living in Denmark where he had a ministry.
His ministry is growing and gets worldwide attention.
He was approached by a production company to make a TV program about his life.
As I said, I am thinking of proposing a program about repentance.
About the turn Christianity is about to take.
And what makes the National Church no longer enough for those who seek God.
About the people who are converted and how their lives change.
You yourself are a strong representative of such a journey
and since I know from the programs we have made together
how good a communicator you are,
I am sure we could make something cool together.
But let's start with a cup of coffee and see what can work for you.
Best regards, Bjarke.
Torben had already worked with this man before,
so he had no reason to doubt his intentions.
But... Bjarke was not honest to Torben.
In the beginning of 2019, the show was aired on Danish TV in three episodes.
Instead of making ‘something cool together’,
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the program put him in a very negative light.
In the program. They show different people that have committed crimes.
And they mix the stories of these people with the videos they made of Torben.
And they used this to frame him.
They made it look like Torben was also ‘one of these criminals’
And we will soon show you an example of this
but first I need to explain something to you.
It’s about the practice of ‘casting out demons’
Demons can be the source of depressions, illnesses,
and different bad things that torment people.
And ‘setting people free from demons’ also known as ‘deliverance’
is a practice that has existed all throughout the history of the church.
The great single evidence of the coming of the Kingdom of God
is the casting out of demons in the name of Jesus.
But there are many people, I'm convinced
that are under the control, power and influence of demons.
It started with Jesus Christ who was the first to do this.
And he instructed his followers to do the same.
And the Bible gives us fourfold power over demons
Christ said: 'I give unto you power over against all unclean spirits.'
In the Bible you can read in different places
that the people who followed Jesus casted out demons.
And often there was quite a bit of screaming involved.
We read that in different places in the Bible… here for example:
‘‘For unclean spirits, crying out with a loud voice
came out of many who had them’.
So often, there is screaming, shouting
or other weird sounds involved when a demon reveals itself.
As a follower of Jesus, Torben sometimes ‘casts out demons’.
To cast out demons is not just a good suggestion.
Not something we can choose to do if we want
It's actually a commandment.
It was a commandment He gave to people.
And Torben teaches in a very practical way
that every follower of Jesus Christ has the authority to cast out demons.
Are you ready to do it alone now?
It’s just that not many Christians actually practice this.
So.. what does this look like?
Here we will show a real-life example that started
when Torben went into a store and started praying for the salesman.
It starts with a simple prayer, but then a demon reveals itself.
It looks like a real battle that’s going on here.
We read about that in the Bible. Jesus is alive, don't be afraid.
This process is not always comfortable to watch, but more important is the outcome.
People are so happy!
Because it’s a relief of something bad that tormented them for a long time.
I love you my friend.
This is a new beginning.
Now, let’s go back to the program that was shown on TV in Denmark.
They showed many clips of this ‘casting out of demons’.
But, they left out the part where people feel relieved
and are joyful in the end.
So what’s left is a lot of screaming.
And then they showed some children who were standing around watching.
They give the impression that these kids are very scared.
Over the years, Torben and his team never got complaints from parents
about kids being scared at their meetings
Because these meetings are actually joyful people are very happy and positive.
Yet the program gives the impression that the children are very frightened.
Next, they show a compilation of this footage to a representative
of an organization that looks after the well-being of children in Denmark.
When this representative sees the footage,
she is led to believe these kids are terrified by what they witness.
In another clip, the representative is shown a boy standing in his underwear.
By the way the producers cut together different clips in the program
they give the impression that the kids in these recordings are very scared.
It is very, very violent. He's so scared.
It affects me deeply to see such a small boy stand there
being forced to watch someting he clearly doesn't like.
If a child is crying, you pull him aside and comfort him.
He shouldn't be forced to watch it.
And children who pee in their pants from anxiety
you have to be very, very frightened.
The child-welfare representative concludes that the boy in his underwear is so afraid
that he wet his pants.
She even uses the strong term ‘psychological abuse’
to describe what she is witnessing.
Children are not even supposed to watch this
It's a form of pshychological abuse to watch adults subjected to this.
But, what really happened?
We were not able to find the parents of this child
but we were able to make contact with another lady who was there.
We see her here in the video.
This is her explanation of what happened.
Hi. Yes that was me in the clip of the film.
I was speaking to the mother of the boy.
He was very distressed, crying very hard
I wanted to understand what was happening
If I could help in some way.
She was explaining that her son has autism
and he was pulling his clothes off. You see him there half undressed.
Because he wanted to go swimming. He saw the baptism pools,
which were like small swimming pools and he wanted to swim.
His mother had told him he wasn't allowed.
He wasn't very happy about it, took it very badly
and couldn't understand why not. That's why he was very upset.
So this boy is angry because he’s not allowed to swim in the pools.
He is not scared.
His body language confirms this.
We can even see in the video that the boy did not wet his pants.
This part of the story was made up.
Torben was given the opportunity to comment on this video.
And his comments were included in the show.
Torben Sondergaard explains the boy has autism and he's crying
because he wants to take a swim in the pool.
When you hear this explanation...
what would you expect the reaction of the child-welfare organization to be?
I guess something like...
“Okay, this was a misunderstanding”.
And you would expect them to withdraw their comments about abuse
Bente Boserup says: if this is true, the abuse is even worse
as autists need quitedness and predictability
She comments: "That is even worse".
How can anyone make such a strong conclusion?
How can someone judge from only a video
that these parents were in the wrong to bring their autistic child to this event?
Remember, she used the term ‘psychological abuse’.
It is important to note that in that same period, in January of 2019
the Danish government was discussing a bill
around the topic of ‘psychological violence’.
It proposes to make ‘psychological violence’ punishable as a crime.
A bill that explicityly makes psychological violence
illegal and punishable
They refer to Torben and the program in the Danish Parliament.
However, we have an addition to the bill, which we hope the parliament
will support in future committee work.
Many of you have probably followed the documentary 'God's Best Children'
and seen how a preacher commits demonic exorcisms
in front of shaking and crying children.
On the Left, we agree with 'Children's Condition'
that this kind of behaviour can be described as psychological abuse
that can leave serious trauma in the children.
They propose to criminalize Torben’s behavior, of performing ‘casting out of demons’.
If the bill passes, it can result in up to 3 years in prison.
This was intimidating for Torben.
Especially the fact that they did not even check the story.
This TV program got a lot of attention. And many news programs discussed it.
And the public in Denmark, but also the government already condemned Torben
based on what they were shown in this TV program.
We will soon show you more examples of how the truth was distorted in this series
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Many questions remain.
Why did this production company misrepresent the footage in this way?
I'm sure we could make something cool together.
What was their motive to frame Torben?
But also: why did Torben ask for asylum in the United States?
And why did he end up in jail there?
We will explore all of these questions and more in the following episodes.
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