{"id":144099,"date":"2025-06-23T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kenyan-preacher-who-claimed-responsibility-for-miracle-babies-killed-in-car-crash"},"modified":"2025-06-23T16:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T16:28:00","slug":"kenyan-preacher-who-claimed-responsibility-for-miracle-babies-killed-in-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kenyan-preacher-who-claimed-responsibility-for-miracle-babies-killed-in-car-crash","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan preacher who claimed responsibility for &#8216;miracle babies&#8217; killed in car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. <\/strong><\/span><b>A televangelist in Kenya who was notorious for claiming to cure infertility in women died in a car crash on Tuesday, local authorities said.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Gilbert Deya was killed in \u201ca horrific road accident which involved several vehicles,\u201d James Orengo, the governor of Kenya\u2019s Siaya County, said in a post on the social platform X. Local media said there were multiple casualties in the crash, and photos from the scene posted on social media showed mangled vehicles on the highway in western Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Deya, a one-time stonemason who later styled himself as a bishop, prospered in the 1990s with claims of his ability to successfully pray for women who were struggling to have babies.<\/p>\n<p>In 1990s, the preacher moved from Kenya to the U.K., where he led the Gilbert Deya Ministries, with churches in cities including London and Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenya News Agency reported after Deya\u2019s death that the preacher and his wife \u201cclaimed that infertile or menopausal women could become pregnant in four months, without having sexual relations, thanks to their prayers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The claim of \u201cmiracle babies\u201d later attracted the attention of authorities, and he was accused in Kenya of stealing five children between 1999 and 2004.<\/p>\n<p>He was extradited to Kenya in 2017 to face criminal charges, which he denied. Prosecutors argued in that case that Deya stole babies from poor people in Kenya and gave them to others to raise as their own.<\/p>\n<p>Deya was acquitted of all charges in 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\">Kenya<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. A televangelist in Kenya who was notorious for claiming to cure infertility in women died in a car crash on Tuesday, local authorities said. Gilbert Deya was killed in \u201ca horrific road accident which involved several vehicles,\u201d James Orengo, the governor of Kenya\u2019s Siaya County, said in a post on the social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":144098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[6857,7003,544],"class_list":["post-144099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-kenya","tag-kenya"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kenyan preacher who claimed responsibility for &#039;miracle babies&#039; killed in car crash - kenya<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/kenyan-preacher-who-claimed-responsibility-for-miracle-babies-killed-in-car-crash\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kenyan preacher who claimed responsibility for &#039;miracle babies&#039; killed in car crash\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Kenya. 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