A popular pastor, songwriter and worship leader, whose hit song, “The Healer” – inspired, he said, by his own two-year struggle with aggressive terminal cancer – has confessed he never had the disease, a ruse he created to cover his addiction to pornography. Michael Guglielmucci, who leads music at Edge Church International near Melbourne, Australia, has gone into hiding after his confession was read from the pulpit by his father, who is founder and head pastor of the church. While admitting that the disagnosis of terminal cancer was a hoax, Guglielmucci insisted the symptoms of vomiting, pain and hair loss were real – shame over his 16-year obsession with pornography manifesting itself with physical symptoms. Police, however, are more interested in the pastor’s Facebook page, “Praying Together for Mike Guglielmucci” – now removed – where donations were solicited. Alex Saint, 24, a former Edge Church International member, donated a small amount on the website, inspired by Guglielmucci’s music, his strength in his disease and the recent loss of his own mother to breast cancer. Pastor Danny Guglielmucci has assured church members restitution will gladly be made “if people want their money back. read more

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