Bollinger:


You are right. Pastors/fraudsters are not forcing anyone. Just like online fraudsters don't force anyone to part with their hard earned funds.

Statsocial:
As Kenneth Hagin of blessed memory once said "when it comes to the issue of church finance there is a thin line between the Permissible and the Objectionable".

Meanwhile this Journalist went on a fault-finding mission and definitely when you go out to find fault you would definitenely find one. This is not to say there are no fraudsters out there fleecing people in the name of God...

I think it is high time that Religious organizations everywhere are mandated to give a complete and thorough financial review to members of the Church and the Public- I think with that, members can fully understand what their money is being used for... Church finances being clouded in secrecy does no one any good and it gives these ill-willing Atheists opportunity to exploit those controversies and derail some.


I also still believe that the Church expenditure and income which should be made completely open for all to review must FOREVER be Tax Exempt.

dalaman:
Africans don't understand how the world works, that's why no matter how educated we are we still act no differently from our illiterate brothers and sisters living in our remote villages because we believe the same way that they do. We are too superstitious and we hide and mask behind our various religious beliefs to further our childish and primitive superstitious beliefs.

The whites find that hard to believe and swallow. A white man can not understand how God will make you a millionaire by simply praying to him, or cure you of cancer. If God cures people from cancer hospitals and their very expensive medical equipments will not exist.

When I first went to Germany over a decade ago I was astonished to realize that the christians there don't believe in miraculous healings the way we do. The way Nigerian christians have discarded all the old testament laws (except tithing ) is the way they have discarded things like miracles and other magical beliefs that comes from the bible.

Imagine people living in UK holding childish beliefs that if they sow seeds, God will make them pass their exams. What kind of primitive and childish superstitious nonsense is that?

frosbel2:



https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/4828976/rich-pastors-matthew-ashimolowo-alex-omokudu-kingsway-international-christian-centre-victorious-pentecostal-assembly-london/

agarawu23:
check his members, I am 200% sure 97% are Africans and Nigeria making about 85% since he is a Nigerian pastor who took his hustle to oversea.

Only in Africa Nigeria people worship their clergymen more than their Main GOD. They are blinded and charmed to see reality and they end up in the stupidity of following evil men who call theirselve men of God. When u take your problem to the church, they tell u to ask God but if they need houses in lekki, they will ask u members to donate and even those living in a face me I face will still bring money out from his/her petty trade. I curse the day religion took over our country

erico2k2:

You forgot the country where he preaches brought Christianity into Nigeria . Compare the Nigerian pastors and the English pastors .

Acidosis:
Yongi Cho

Billy Graham

Joyce Meyer

Joel Osteen

Rick Warren

Creflo Dollar

Pat Robertson




These are a few American and Korean pastors with super-mega congregations in US & Korea but these journalists won't give a report on them.

Everything is wrong with blacks but nothing is ever wrong with a dullard in a white skin.

Funkybabee:
And weytin be their own,did any worshippers there complain na God go destroy them all even oloriburuku freezes wey start this nonsense..he is going to see wrath of God this year if he didn't change his way Let leave them for God to purnish no be me go help them eat in their on cane...and when they start from mud house no person see them then oooo...



Oloshi gbogbo

fedora04:
I quite agree..The issue here is most churches do not disclose how church funds are used.Pastors and overseers should emulate most orthodox. .You can't be in custody of church funds and not publicly disclose how u use it

stay away from he funds ..be on salary if possible set up committee and trustee..Never meddle with it.

Any pastor who is a signatory to church account should ask to be removed and other members of his family too

If this is in place then members can 100% defend you..

For those claim they use it for charity...God is not mocked. ..

Let us learn from the apostles. ..No one claimed any possession as his..meaning out of 5000 people no one lacked anything you know why?The leaders never thought of themselves

We all are accountable to God especially when God places you to lead.Please G.O,s stay away from church funds in any form

uboma:
Excellent investigative journalism.


Something we really lack here in Nigeria.

lloyds:
Church is a business, and it's God's business. So if the people footing these bulls are not forced nor complaining, no one has any right to harass them or question their financial probity.

Most of the people that patronize these churches are doing so because their hapetite or needs were met there.

GavelSlam:


There have been many exposès on these individuals.

Today, we are concentrating on the Nigerian born pastors.

dhebo:
how Matthew ashimolowo's congregation see this and still not understand the man is toying with their earning is what am confused about..how will a pastor live in a 1million dollars manshion

Acidosis:



How many times have you condemned the average American for making Joel Osteen a mega rich pastor?

I bet you see no wrong in the contributions of the average man in a white skin.

Acidosis:
Yongi Cho

Billy Graham

Joyce Meyer

Joel Osteen

Rick Warren

Creflo Dollar

Pat Robertson




These are a few American and Korean pastors with super-mega congregations in US & Korea but these journalists won't give a report on them.

Everything is wrong with blacks but nothing is ever wrong with a dullard in a white skin.

frosbel2:


Racist ?? For exposing these thieves and criminals and freeing their clueless sheeple ?

You people are living in delusion land.

Funkybabee:
And weytin be their own,did any worshippers there complain na God go destroy them all even oloriburuku freezes wey start this nonsense..he is going to see wrath of God this year if he didn't change his way Let leave them for God to purnish no be me go help them eat in their on cane...and when they start from mud house no person see them then oooo...



Oloshi gbogbo

OneCorner:
So what do u want us to do now?
Go and close the church or kidnap d pastors?
thought this recent obsessions with pastors ended in 2017 sef

erico2k2:
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Don't mind this racist white men newspaper tried and failed to bring down a man of God, a visionary, a motivational leader who has mentored so many men and women to great achievement.

As for KICC the charity commissioners spent millions of church funds investigating them for years and at the end recommended a significant increase in Pastor Ashimolowo salary after initially suspending salary payments to him.

They came from Nigeria and initially did some things that might make sense but contravened the charity rules.

I have not attended his church in 15 years plus but know that any man or woman without jealousy in his mind who listens to him will be changed spiritually, career wise, financially guided and have a superior outlook on life and how to navigate the diaspora situation.

They are just jealous of a black man who is helping[/s] majorly black people to keep their life in balance.
Trash

BushWickBill:


If I call you dumb, you will start crying to the mods.

Please check the emboldened, go and edit this trash you call a post, and go and think your life over in a dark room for the folly you just displayed.
Then go and apologise to your parents for wasting their money on your education.

Aside from being in a hurry to type for the sake of it, you couldn't even get your facts right.


I bet you that you won't spot the error in that your post.

middlebelter:


The report is biased. The writer is painting the payment of tithe as if it were payment to Ashimolowo. Look, I am not a member of his Church, but we Christians should not continue to watch this people from other religions attack our Christian Faith. How is it their business if people pay tithes? Is it not Biblical? Is anybody forcing the writer and his pay masters to pay? As for Pastor Ashimolowo's luxury house, is the writer and his supporters aware of the number of books that this man has written and the volume of his investment? Even if he were using the Church's money will God fail to bring him to judgment?

It is not difficult to understand why UK is fast drifting into the hands of ISIS and Muslim Mayor's, but they expect to replicate the same obnoxious laws in Nigeria that will stiff the growth of Pentecostal movements?
My position is not a tacit support for misappropriation of tithe and offerings but I strongly believe that any body cheating by diverting tithes will have most severe punishment. I believe the God of the the Holy Bible, and the he won't fail to punish such people.

GavelSlam:


They are all fraudsters and we call them out when the occasion demands.

Osteen only last year was widely berated when he wouldn't Grant refuge to people rendered homeless by the hurricane.

All of them are fraudsters without exception.

Acidosis:


So what do you want to do now, especially considering the fact that people have not stopped donating to their ministries in millions?