It is not clear exactly why Francisco Barajah, 39, founder of the Evangelical Church of Santa Trindade, decided to imitate the work. 40 days fasting of Jesus. However, following only 25 days of fasting, without food or water, Barajah began to become so exhausted and weak that he might not even stand. However, he still insists on following the biblical time of fasting. When the pastor’s family and followers decided to take him to the hospital, it was too late.
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Francisco Barajah, presumed dead on the 38th day following extreme fasting, following being taken to a hospital in the city of Beira, near the border with Zimbabwe. By this point, he was unable to speak and many of the pastor’s followers said he was so weak that he was unrecognizable. At the hospital, the pastor was diagnosed with acute anemia and failure of the digestive organs.
Doctors tried to rehydrate him with serum and give him liquid food, but by this point his digestive organs were too badly damaged and the 39-year-old was over. passed away on February 15. Followers of this pastor say it is normal for Barajah to fast, but he has never fasted as long as this time.
Although experts consider prolonged fasting to be a major factor in the pastor’s organ failure, members of his family have been trying to determine whether the cause of death was due to pre-existing health problems. , such as low blood pressure.
BBC reports that Barajah’s death is not a single case death due to imitation of fasting in the Bible of Jesus. Another woman also died trying to fast for 40 days and in 2015 a Zimbabwean man died following 30 days of fasting.