evidence: He then spread a conspiracy theory popular in the anti-vaccine community - that vaccines are a way of "depopulating the world". [...] "This can have devastating consequences for public health, particularly in the WHO African region where vaccine-preventable diseases occur frequently," a WHO spokesperson said. [...] In a sermon in August 2023, the pastor broadcast a clip from a TED talk Bill Gates gave in 2010 as an example of "those who have an agenda for depopulation of the world".