Formerly Catholic 'Intercessors of the Lamb,' shut down by archbishop, reviving as..

[Michie]

...non-denominational group

The leader of the Intercessors of the Lamb and a handful of her devoted followers are trying to create life after the death penalty for their controversial religious group.


Nadine Brown and her followers have shed their signature teal and white robes since Omaha Archbishop George Lucas shut them down last fall as a Roman Catholic religious group. His action, known in church lingo as a suppression, not only erased the Intercessors’ status as a Catholic association, it also estranged them from much of their primary market, the Catholic faithful.

Brown’s backers have said Intercessors of the Lamb Inc. would continue as a nondenominational Christian group. A glimpse of what that might look like is on display Saturday at the group’s Nebraska campus in the Ponca Hills north of Omaha, where the Intercessors have hooked up with an evangelical Christian group from the Waterloo-Cedar Falls area of eastern Iowa, the IHOPE House of Prayer, to host a prayer meeting.

The Intercessors also are marketing their annual conference for July, saying they’ve booked the Qwest Center Omaha. The conference had grown to attract thousands of people from the United States and abroad.

This summer’s will be the first since the Intercessors ran afoul of the Catholic Church.

“There is life after suppression,” said Judith Sellers, treasurer of Intercessors of the Lamb Inc. “It’s a new beginning.”

IHOPE is an autonomous, nondenominational Christian ministry devoted to changing the Cedar Valley area of Iowa through prayer, said Quovadis Marshall, assistant director of intercession, healing, offerings to the poor and evangelism.

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[Fantine]

Very interesting.

Proving, once again, that almost all people, no matter what part of the liberal/conservative spectrum they fall into, have similar reactions to repression.