UK Church Pays Damages After Gay Man Subjected to Exorcism
LONDON, July 16 — A British man has received a financial settlement from a church in Sheffield after enduring a traumatic “exorcism” intended to purge his homosexuality. Matthew Drapper, now 37, described being subjected to intense spiritual coercion and prayer rituals during a church retreat in 2014 The event took place at St Thomas Philadelphia, a joint