Todd Bentley: British Labour MP Malcolm Wicks

Bentley Dept: Bentley, who gained international attention in 2008 when he led a series of Christian revival meetings in Florida that drew as many as 8,000 people a night, quickly condemned the British government's ban as having "no legal basis" and urged his supporters to "stand with us in prayer regarding this decision and our return to the U.K.", according to Vancouver Sun. "This man is a very unsavoury character," Wicks had said of Bentley in his Aug. 1 letter to May, reported last week by Postmedia News. "I urge you to do all in your power to ban this man from the U.K. His visit can do nothing but harm and I would be grateful for any measures you can take." A controversial B.C. evangelist has been blocked from entering Britain ahead of a planned faith-healing tour of the country, with U.K. Home Secretary Theresa May declaring Abbotsford's Todd Bentley - an unorthodox pastor known to have kicked one follower in the face to expel the devil - a potential threat "to undermine our society." The exclusion order against the fiery preacher follows British Labour MP Malcolm Wicks' call for May to prevent Bentley - who launched his Fresh Fire ministry in Abbotsford in the late 1990s - from leading a three-day soul-saving event scheduled to begin Aug. 30 in the London-area borough of Croydon. Other stops on Bentley's British tour were to include Liverpool, Portadown in Northern Ireland and Cwm-bran in Wales. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.