- SCOAN plays host to dozens of international guests, and local celebrities, who visit the worship center for prayers
- Joshua was listed by Forbes as the third-richest pastor in Nigeria with an estimated net worth of between $10 – $15 million in 2011
Popular Nigerian televangelist, T. B. Joshua, has urged his followers to “pray for YouTube” for shutting down his account after he posted videos claiming to ‘cure’ gay members of his congregation of their sexuality on his channel.
“I got to know what happened to YouTube when I saw the viewers complaining… I want you to help me pray for YouTube… Don’t see them the other way around; see them as friends. We need to be strong,” T.B. Joshua said in a sermon posted on the ministry’s Facebook page at the weekend.
The YouTube channel of The Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) – run by Joshua – was deactivated last week and can no longer be viewed by its nearly two million subscribers.
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According to CNN, OpenDemocracy, a media rights group based in the UK, had sent a message to YouTube on April 8 asking if the conversion therapy videos did not violate its policies.
“We noticed at least seven videos. In one video, T.B. Joshua slapped a woman and her partner whom he called her ‘second’ (partner) at least 16 times,” said Lydia Namubiru, OpenDemocracy’s Africa Editor.
“He said he was casting the ‘spirit of woman’ out of her,” Namubiru said as she narrated the content of the footage flagged to YouTube and Facebook by her organization. The woman later told Joshua that she no longer felt affection for her partner because of his intervention, Namubiru said.
“In yet another, a young person… is slapped several times and his dreadlocks are shaven off before he testifies that he is no longer attracted to men,” Namubiru added.
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