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<h6 class="content__headline "><span style="color: #000000;">South African pastor&#8217;s antics sparks storm of parody on social media </span></h6>
<h6 class="content__headline "><span style="color: #000000;">Alleluia Ministries International pastor Alph Lukau “reviving” a supposedly dead man emerged over the weekend and quickly went viral. </span></h6>
<h6 class="content__headline "><span style="color: #000000;">Lukau was shown laying his hands on a body dressed in a white suit and lying in a coffin, which suddenly came to life and jumped to his feet</span></h6>
<h6 class="content__headline "><span style="color: #000000;">Within hours, the hashtag #ResurrectionChallenge was trending on Twitter as users posted wry images of their own dramatic “revivals” alongside screenshots of Lukau’s supposed miracle</span></h6>
<h6 class="content__headline "><span style="color: #000000;">There&#8217;s also a backlash from the funeral home “hired” to make the arrangements for the “dead” man</span></h6>
<h6 class="content__headline "><span style="color: #000000;">They have distanced themselves from the supposed resurrection, stating “We are in the process of taking legal action for this malicious damage to our image”</span></h6>
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<div class="u-h meta__number" data-discussion-id="/p/ap9ev" data-commentcount-format="content" data-discussion-closed="true"><img class="alignnone wp-image-309428" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Alph-Lukaku-2-300x189.png" alt="" width="767" height="483" />A pastor in South Africa who claimed to have performed a resurrection has sparked a social media craze as users took to the web mockingly mimicking his miraculous powers.</div>
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<strong> Video of South Africans pastor on social media playing &#8216;resurrection stunt&#8217; </strong></p>
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<p>A video of Alleluia Ministries International pastor Alph Lukau “reviving” a supposedly dead man emerged over the weekend and quickly went viral.<br />
It showed Lukau laying his hands on a body dressed in a white suit and lying in a coffin, which suddenly came to life and jumped to his feet.<br />
Within hours, the hashtag <a class="u-underline" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/resurrectionchallenge" data-link-name="in body link">#ResurrectionChallenge</a> was trending on Twitter as users posted wry images of their own dramatic “revivals” alongside screenshots of Lukau’s supposed miracle.</p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-309429" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Ressurection-Challange-3-300x173.png" alt="" width="825" height="476" />The stunt has spurn a series of parodies on Twitter</strong><time class="dt-updated" title="Time posted: February 25, 2019 16:06:15 (UTC)" datetime="2019-02-25T16:06:15+0000"></time></h6>
<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-309433" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Ressurection-Challange-5-300x189.png" alt="" width="1094" height="689" /><strong>All hail the charlatan: “My alarm just resurrect me to wake up”</strong></h6>
<p>Just Jusca pictured himself with a look of surprise sitting up in the bath under the caption “My alarm just resurrect me to wake up”.<br />
Dikano Sino posted a video of a class of schoolchildren being magically reanimated by a teacher.<br />
But Lukau’s supposed resurrection prompted a backlash from the funeral home “hired” to make the arrangements for the “dead” man.<br />
“As Kings and Queens Funeral Services, we would like to distance ourselves from the supposed resurrection,” the company wrote in a statement. “We are in the process of taking legal action for this malicious damage to our image.”<br />
By Tuesday, the Alleluia church had distanced itself from the video, telling local media “it was not a resurrection miracle”.<br />
Alleluia Ministries International church has declined to comment on criticism that it deceived worshippers.</p>
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Video of South African pastor Alph Lukau’s ‘revival’ of a dead man prompts online parody – South Africans mock pastor on social media for ‘resurrection stunt’
