Bride Ministries Responds to the "Angel Almanza" Claims

Some things should never have to be said in public. Unfortunately, a Facebook page titled "Victims of Daniel Duval and Bride Ministries" has been left unaddressed since 2023, and we realize that it is irresponsible to let it continue to go unrefuted. The claims it contains are serious and require an honest and truthful rebuttal. So, we are laying out the full record here so anyone who finds that page can read both sides and decide for themselves who to believe.

We want to say one thing first, before any of the facts. This is not written in anger. The woman behind the page appears to truly believe what she is saying, and that breaks our hearts. We hold real compassion for her. We are not here to attack a hurt person. We are here to tell the truth plainly, to be open about everything on our side, and to protect the many people who come to this ministry looking for healing and freedom. In this response, we will give you our receipts, her own emails, and her own videos, and let you weigh the matter for yourself.

Leticia Marie Almanza, posting publicly under her personal Facebook profile facebook.com/angelgreen447.

Here is the whole story in a few lines:

• The person administrating Victims of Daniel Duval and Bride Ministries on Facebook uses the profile "Angel Almanza" (though this profile was formerly named "Angel Green"). Her real name is Leticia Marie Almanza.
• The entire history between Leticia and Daniel Duval included one paid prayer coaching session (via Zoom) in 2018 that lasted one hour, and a series of email exchanges mostly focused on her efforts to get follow-up ministry.
• Daniel and Leticia never met in person. There was no ongoing relationship.
• In the few email exchanges they shared, emails were polite on both sides, and despite the grossly different narrative her posts would suggest, there was never any abuse, manipulation, or control from Daniel.
• Leticia kept using Daniel's prayers because of their effectiveness even after she began posting negatively against him.
• Her public claims against Daniel Duval and Bride Ministries began in 2023. In the years since, she has not produced a single piece of proof for any accusations, despite requesting that he sue her for defamation.

The rest of this page includes the details.

We are not putting words in her mouth. Every claim answered below is linked to the video where she says it herself. You can see the source of the accusations we will be responding to. Our position is to maintain full transparency.

• Video: "Just some thoughts" (witchcraft, "I did not lie," still uses the prayers). Watch
• Video: "I've put this off for years" (the "rape by deception" and "consciousness transfer" story). Watch
• Video: "How Daniel crafts his prayers" (the "witchcraft" claim). Watch
• Video: "I'm a targeted individual" (the claim that Daniel works for the other side). Watch
• Video: "I really have little proof" (the multiple-wives claim, and her own words that she has no proof). Watch

Leticia alleges an "elaborate plot" that was conceived against her by Daniel along with a series of other claims. Our position is that these are false allegations that will fall flat in the light of available evidence.

There is exactly one verifiable event between Leticia Almanza and Daniel Duval. On March 6, 2018, she booked and paid for a single one-hour private prayer coaching session (to occur via Zoom). The payment was $75. The session happened a few days later. Daniel kept a few short notes from it. Nothing about that hour was unusual, and nothing harmful happened in it.

That is their complete relationship. One hour. One time. Online.

The session itself shows on the calendar for March 9, 2018, a single one-hour slot:

They never met face to face. Daniel ministers to people over the internet, using video calls, and in the past, made time to sit down with many from around the world for one-time sessions. This is the case here. Unfortunately, Leticia chose to misrepresent a single one-hour prayer coaching call as an "ongoing coach-client relationship" with Daniel that became the source of great abuse and pain in her life. She made the whole thing up. The idea that a single one-hour video call in 2018 became months of abuse, gaslighting, and a "plot" is not supported by anything in the record. She simply lied.

This is the part that matters most, because it is in her own writing, not anyone else's.

In early 2019, Leticia Almanza emailed Daniel several times trying to book a second session. The tone of those emails is warm, grateful, and eager. A few of her own lines:

She refers to the 2018 session as "that one session last year," which confirms there was only one session.

Here is that email thread, in her own words. Her personal email address has been blacked out:

And then, plainly, about her work with Daniel:

These are not the words of someone who was harmed. They are the words of someone asking to come back for more ministry and thanking Daniel for the ministry help she received. People who have truly been abused do not chase their abuser for a second appointment and credit him with their breakthrough. Abusers that manipulate and gaslight people do not have polite email exchanges reflecting their position that people follow their own promptings from the Holy Spirit... as Daniel did. Although Daniel offered a follow-up session in the email dated 2/19, there is no payment record or email indicating this second appointment ever actually happened.

In her own video, she explains the claim this way:

Watch the video where she says this

She also wrote a public post laying out the same story:

In another post, she claims that during a 2018 online webinar, Daniel's wife Christian saw her through the computer screen and sent her "daggers" with her eyes, and that Daniel stretched on camera to seduce her. In her own words:

Our plain response: There was no relationship in which any of this could have happened. Daniel and Leticia never met in childhood, and they never physically met as adults. Daniel was not present in her life. There were no meetings, no calls beyond a single one-hour prayer coaching call in 2018, and no in person contact, ever. Whatever she experienced or believed, it did not come from a relationship with Daniel Duval, because that relationship does not exist.

Daniel cannot be held responsible for who she chose to spend time with, or the way she chose to spend that time, or for a delusion she came to believe in her own mind. Our opinion is that these accusations reflect a very broken person trying to get attention in the worst way possible. Our position is that these accusations are emphatically untrue.

In her own words, on video:

Watch the video where she says this

Our plain response is that it is not true. First, Leticia and Christian have never spoken. Second, Daniel Duval does not teach that a man can have more than one wife. Bride Ministries believes in the sanctity of marriage and that it is a covenant between one man and one woman (1 Tim. 3:2, 1 Tim. 3:12, Tit. 1:6). Daniel is married to one wife, Christian Duval, and his public teaching on marriage aligns with his stewardship of his own family. To claim that Daniel teaches polygamy is a claim so large it would be easy to prove if it were real. Leticia produced no recording, no document, no message, and no witness to substantiate her claim. No such teaching by Daniel has ever been shown, because there is no such teaching.

This isn't just a lie; it's a bad lie. Nonetheless, it is necessary for us to make our position on this abundantly clear.

In her own words, on video:

And in a second video, on how she says he builds them:

Watch the first video · Watch the second video

Let us begin by defining what witchcraft is. Witchcraft is the practice of magic, especially for evil purposes. It involves the use of occult, elemental, or demonic power to control people or events. The Bible, in the book of Deuteronomy 18:10, states that those practicing witchcraft were not to be so much as found among the children of Israel. However, most people can tell the difference between praying to Jesus and doing witchcraft. We trust that you as the reader are one of these people. The honest test regarding Daniel's prayers is simple: read the prayers and see what power they use and who they appeal to.

Anyone can do that. The prayers are public and free at bridemovement.com. There is nothing hidden about them. Daniel's written prayers are the opposite of witchcraft. They are addressed to God the Father and prayed "in the name of Jesus". They appeal to the blood of Jesus and to Scripture, line by line. For example, one prayer opens, "Father, I come before you in prayer. I enter into your gates with thanksgiving..." (from Psalm 100:4). Elsewhere it contains the language "I plead the blood of Jesus over myself and my household".

Far from practicing witchcraft, Daniel's prayers fight against it. One of the most-used prayers reads: "I also call for the annulling and removal of every curse and ungodly insertion placed on the times and seasons of my life..." A prayer that asks God to break witchcraft is not witchcraft. It is the opposite.

The prayers also point the reader to things like the armor of God, straight from the Bible: "Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil" (Ephesians 6:11), because "the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds" (2 Corinthians 10:4). This is ordinary Christian spiritual warfare, taught in churches everywhere. It is prayer, not witchcraft. The power in it is God's, and the prayers are to be spoken in the name of Jesus.

We are all entitled to our own opinions, but we are not entitled to our own facts. Daniel has produced powerful prayer resources that have led to hundreds of thousands of testimonies around the world, not because he is good at witchcraft, but because Jesus is moving on prayers that are being addressed to him! To God be the glory!

There is also a problem inside her own story, which leads to the next point.

In one of her own public posts, she says she used Daniel's prayers from 2018 to 2023 and got real freedom from them. In her video, she says it plainly:

Watch the video where she says this

Here is the contradiction, stated plainly. How can a person pray an abuser's "witchcraft" prayers for five years and then credit their spiritual freedom to the use of those prayers? Either the prayers harmed her, or they helped her. Her own words say they helped her. Her own claims give cause for the entire accusation that Daniel's prayers are witchcraft to unravel. The prayers worked for her because they were written to Jesus, prayed to Jesus, and answered by Jesus. Case closed.

In her own words, on video:

Watch the video where she says this

But in another video, she says the opposite about whether she can back any of it up. In her own words:

Watch the video where she says this

Certainty is not the same thing as proof, and she admits, in her own video, that she has no proof of her claims against Daniel Duval. For about three years she has posted these claims and provided an unaddressed public group for others who might be disgruntled or simply confused to join in a libelous conversation concerning Daniel Duval and Bride Ministries. Yet, in all that time she has not produced one date, one message, one recording, one photograph, one text message, or any proof of any in-person contact or abusive or manipulative communication connected to Daniel. There is nothing for her to produce, because there never was a story to begin with.

This is the heart of the matter. We have set out to clear the record and demonstrate the lies that have been put forth against Daniel Duval and Bride Ministries. We make one simple request at this point.

Challenge Leticia Marie Almanza to produce a single piece of real evidence for any one claim. One message. One recording. One document. One photograph, one date and time of a meeting that can be checked. Anything at all that a fair person could examine. If she can't, remind her that lying about men and women of God and ministries is sin, and ask her to repent.

Three years have passed and not one such item has ever appeared. The reason is simple. The events she described did not happen, and for whatever reason, she has continued to peddle a collection of lies and fantasies.

We did not respond for years, because almost no one was reading her page. That changed when the page began to receive more attention due to the sheer volume of people searching for Daniel Duval and Bride Ministries in the recent past. The page was built and tuned to surface on those searches. Some people who come to this ministry looking for help now risk getting confused and put off by finding these claims first, before they ever hear the truth. That is the only reason we are putting this record out. We would rather have left it alone.

Scripture is honest about this pattern. When nothing true can be found against a person, false words get spoken instead.

We rest in the truth that nothing stays hidden forever.

In this article we have demonstrated that Leticia's claims lack veracity on every point. Unfortunately, the concerns with this individuals go deeper. We share this part with no joy at all, and only because she has chosen to attack publicly while hiding behind fake names to intentionally obscure her identity. If a person is going to commit public attacks, they need to accept public accountability. People have a right to know who is actually speaking. The same person posts publicly under her personal Facebook profile, facebook.com/angelgreen447. Public court records show the following about Leticia Marie Almanza:

In a case from 2002, she was convicted of assault causing bodily injury, a Class A misdemeanor, and placed on formal probation. (Williamson County, TX. Booking #191450)
She was arrested in November 2011 on a charge of theft of property, by the Austin Police Department. (Booking #2011-15015)
She was arrested in August 2013 on charges of driving with an invalid license (with a prior conviction or suspension) and having no liability insurance. (Williamson County, TX. Booking #2013-09981)
She was arrested in April 2018 on a charge of making a terroristic threat against a family or household member. (Williamson County, TX. Booking #2018-03873)

Here are those records as they appear in the Williamson County public jail records system:

Leticia has a colorful history on the wrong side of law enforcement. These are matters of public record. We are not a court, and we are not here to do anything other than point out the facts. The point is narrow and fair: a person with this history, posting under false names, with no evidence for any of her claims, is asking the public to take her word over the documented record of a man of God and a ministry with a proven track record of good fruit internationally. We will let you weigh that for yourself.

We have been plain about the facts, because the facts are plain. However, we also want to address her as a person.

When we watch her videos, we do not see an enemy. We see someone in real pain. She seems to truly believe what she is saying, and that is heartbreaking, not something we choose to be angry about. An untruthful story told with full sincerity is still untruthful, but the person telling it is still loved by God. There is forgiveness for all of us!

So, we will say it directly to her. Leticia, we hold nothing against you. We are not your enemy, and we never were. We only want what is good for you. We pray that God brings you peace, healing, and people who truly love you. You are loved, and you were made for more than this.