Nugget For The Day: As long as you are not openly living in sin, God can take you from where you are to where he wants you to be. --Myles Munroe

Operatives Raid Benny Hinn's Church Office, "Why They Came"

Faith-healing televangelist, Benny Hinn

A day after criminal investigators from the IRS and inspectors from the U.S. Postal Service executed a closely guarded raid on the offices of his ministry in Grapevine, Texas, Wednesday, last week,  popular faith-healing televangelist Benny Hinn revealed they are looking into "certain operations of the church."

Hinn did not go into much detail about which aspects of his ministry federal officials are reviewing, but in a statement on Facebook he said he's confident the investigation will end favorably.

"As has been widely reported, Benny Hinn Ministries is cooperating fully with the governmental entities that are reviewing certain operations of the Church. The ministry has undergone intense scrutiny over the years, and we remain confident that there will again be a positive and speedy outcome in the days ahead," the statement said.

Preacher Stripped, Forced To Drink Urine As Christians Face Attack.'Fresh Incident Every 40 Hours' Report

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A new report says that violent attacks on the Christian minority in India are increasing at an alarming rate, as the emboldened members of groups close to the governing Hindu nationalist party seek to create a "Hindu nation." There's an anti-Christian attack every 40 hours, the report highlights.

 

The report by the All India Christian Council says attacks against Christians increased by about 20 percent in 2016, and physical violence against Christians was up by as much as 40 percent. A fresh attack is being reported every 40 hours, it added.

"The attacks have become severe and more frequent. Incidents used to be confined to a few states. Now the violence has spread to 23 states," the report notes, pointing out that the sharpest rise has been recorded in the northern Uttar Pradesh state and the southern state of Telangana.

Nugget For Today : Nowhere in the New Testament did Jesus institute any kind of fast.In His commands to His disciples, Jesus never enjoined any fast to be kept.Paul said he fasted , but in all his letters to the church, starting with Romans, there is not a single reference telling the church to fast.We are encouraged to pray, but in connection with demon activity,healing or anything else, we are not told to fast.Fasting, then, must not be as important as some people would lead you to believe.There would have to be some kind of instruction for the church if it were.There are instructions on the gifts of the spirit, praying and giving, but none on fasting.-Kenneth E Hagin

 

Rev' Omotosho Arrest's Latest! Church Breaks Silence As South African Journalist Confesses

The Rev' Tim Omotosho led  South Africa based  Jesus Dominion International church  has risen in defense of its founder,  following his ongoing trial over sex related allegation,  describing his travail as part of  South Africans  grand design against the Church and successful  Nigerians resident in the country.

Speaking exclusively to The Rhema News over the unfolding issue, Pastor Walter Shosanya of Jesus Dominion International, Durban, South Africa said allegations made against the Senior Pastor have fallen flat in the faces of his accusers because it’s been difficult for them to defend.

 Describing the Pastor's ordeal as " another spiritual xenophobic attack on Nigerian Pastors" Shosanya said Omotoso is surrounded by haters among South African pastors, who are jealous of the way God is manifesting himself through him with the power of God, wisdom, love, truth and grace, besides his detailed sense of the revelation of the word of God which he described as amazing.

UNCOVERED! The Grand Plot Against Adeboye, Oyedepo, Joda, Others ..."Why We Are After Them"

A gathering storm against the dominance of fathers of the Christian faith in the country like has been in covered.

There is a built up anger in the church against many fathers of the faith, among them, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, Bishop David Oyedepo and Rev Tunde Joda , hence the  plot by the younger generation of  preachers and church administrators in the country for a systematic upstage.

In this piece, Femi Adepoju revealed how those behind the plot expressed their grievance, "we are angry with them on how they are managing their successes.

Bishop David Oyedepo

 

"They have built schools with tithes and offerings that came to them through the grace of God upon them.  They run ministries that do not give opportunity for the Holy Ghost to raise new generation of leaders. They are the "holy ghost" of their ministries. They tell you what to do in every location.  What they feed their sheep in Lagos is what they sent to you to feed your sheep in Jos"

 According to one of the aggrieved church operators who spoke with TRN in confidence, the character of many of the fathers of faith is based on the fact that they don't trust the new generation operators.

7 Christian Leaders Arrested Protesting Trump's Budget Proposal on Capitol Hill

 

Seven left-leaning Christian leaders have been  arrested  after protesting inside of a congressional office building on Capitol Hill, Washington,  in opposition to President Donald Trump's "immoral" budget proposal.

The seven detainees were a part of a large group of left-leaning Mainline Protestant leaders who demonstrated outfront of the United Methodist Building on Maryland Avenue around noon Monday as part of the annual "
The leaders called Trump's budget proposal, which would cut many aid programs and increase military and border security spending, "sinful."

After a handful of faith leaders representing the United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church (USA), the United Church of Christ, the Progressive National Baptist Convention and other organizations spoke outside the Methodist building, those gathered prayed for Congress to reject Trump's budget proposal, saying that it "invests in war at the expense of poor and marginalized people."