Watch : Woman pushes priest off stage for fat shaming comments

On the social networking site of Twitter, a video that had gone viral, with millions of views. In the video a woman is seen pushing a priest off a stage. As per sources, the incident took place during a sermon in Brazil after the priest had said that, fat women cannot go to heaven.

According to the fact-checking website Snopes, the unnamed woman did push the priest, Padre Marcelo Rossi, off the stage in front of about 50,000 people. However, the priest did not make any fat-shaming comments.

A Brazilian writer, Marco Faustino, had provided the translation of the speech given by Padre Rossi just before he was pushed from the stage: "These hands no longer belong to me. Sinners, weak, but these hands belong to Jesus, so much that the priest already acts in the person of Christ. To serve, to bless…"

The local reports have stated that, her companions told the police that she suffers from some mental-health issues. The 32-year-old woman was taken away by the police. As the priest declined to press charges, she was let go shortly afterwards.

In Brazil a priest says "fat women cannot go to heaven!"
And then… pic.twitter.com/WiPWSvG4Ur

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