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Pastor Benny Hinn: Charlatan or Man of God? October 09, 2009 Lauren Green. Pastor Benny Hinn is being investigated by the Senate Finance Committee and was recently denied entry into the United Kingdom. The press has been bad, he says, because the media doesn't understand him. But the Texas-based faith healer, whose "Holy Spirit Miracle Crusades" pack sports arenas across the United States, is fielding questions about his controversies nonetheless. He says he needs to voice his concerns over the land of his birth, Israel, and the threat to it posed by a nuclear Iran — which he talks about...

Burton declined to say why the two resigned, but said both wrote the board to express their support for the school's mission.The resignations come a month after the resignations from the board of regents of two other televangelists, Jesse Duplantis and Creflo Dollar.Hinn and Dollar are among six televangelists being investigated by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley to determine if the high-profile preachers violated their organizations' tax-exempt status by living lavishly on the backs of small donors. They have denied wrongdoing.

MANILA, Philippines -- He is simple and unassuming. In fact, nothing in his demeanor says his very hands have healed thousands of people worldwide. For Fr. Fernando Suarez, his ministry is not complicated. He is simply a vessel of God’s healing power longing to reach out to people and remind them that He is always present. “The bottom line is this healing is turning people back to God. The healing that I do and the healing that people feel is just what happens on the external. What really happens is spiritual healing,” Suarez said. At a time when people’s faith...

Benny goes beserk, takes off his jacket and starts swattin' a few folks. People fall down left and right. Click HERE to see Benny and the Jets.

On eve of fraud trial, Christian investors say they were betrayed When Gregory Setser's import empire came crashing down two years ago, little was left to pay back hundreds of investors and church groups who funded his International Product Investment Corp. with at least $160 million. Big-name evangelists and everyday churchgoers are among those who were invited to invest in a plan to import cheap, foreign-made goods for pre-arranged sales to retailers like Garden Ridge, Kmart, Michaels and Pier 1. But what remained after the Securities and Exchange Commission shut the company down serves as testament to the lavish California...

Tax exemption under review By Darren Barbee Star-Telegram Staff Writer 13 August 2005 The Fort-Worth Star-Telegram The tax-exempt status of faith healer Benny Hinn's $6.5 million world headquarters in Grapevine is being examined by the Tarrant Appraisal District after a televangelist watchdog group this week questioned whether the property should be considered a church. The review of the property at 3400 William D. Tate Ave., triggered by a request of the Dallas-based Trinity Foundation, is considered somewhat unusual, appraisal district officials said. But any request for a review is investigated as a matter of policy. The ministry's 58,000-square-foot facility, with...

WHAT'S WRONG WITH BENNY HINN? Audio Files Available: Listen Now VIA MP3 1.) Benny Hinn Audio Track 1: "I am a Little God...I am a little messiah." 2.) Benny Hinn Audio Track 2: There are really a total of 9 gods. WHAT ABOUT OTHER TV PREACHERS? Paul Crouch of TBN: "I am a little God...critics be gone!" Kenneth Copeland: "You don't have a God in you...you are one." More....

Bangalore, Jan 16: The proposed ‘Pray for India’ programme later this week by American evangelist, Mr Benny Hinn has sparked a controversy with the Bharatiya Janata Party and Sangh parivar organisations up in arms against it, dubbing it as one that’s intended to promote religious conversion. The Florida-based pastor, who claims to have the power to heal the sick and dying, is slated to attend the three-day prayer meeting from January 21 at Jakkur Airfield here which has been touted by the organisers as a big show, saying lakhs of people from across the country are expected to attend it....

The Heretic Controversial televangelist and faith healer Benny Hinn came to Texas in 1999, abandoning his congregation in Florida to build a World Health Center in Irving. But Hinn—whose lifestyle more closely resembles Michael Jackson's than Jerry Falwell's—recently got word from on high to delay his plans for the theme park/New Age miracle spa. Thank God. by John Bloom IF YOU DRIVE WEST FROM THE CITY, through the neo-modern lunarscape of Las Colinas, past the airport on our denuded prairie, into the warren of faceless office buildings that make up cosmopolitan Grapevine, you'll never find Benny Hinn. He wants it...