Nigeria's Millionaire Preachers

Every Sunday millions of Nigerians crowd into thousands of competing churches. The team visits one church in Lagos run by Dr Sign Fireman, an up-and-coming preacher who is attempting to break into the big time.

They find 2000 people at an event billed as the Burial of Satan. After a rock star entrance, Dr Fireman begins his service by exorcising the demons in his congregation.

Sick members of the congregation come forward for miracle healing. Dr Fireman claims to have God-given powers that can change people's lives, from raising people from the dead to curing earache. One man tells the crowd he is crippled and blind. Dr Fireman then channels his powers to help the man walk and see again. Yet, earlier the team has seen the man walking unaided.

Through the marketing of his talents, Dr Fireman has expanded his Perfect Christianity Ministry to 40 branches. Key to this growth is the emphasis on prosperity preaching: teaching that prosperity is a sign of spiritual blessing. The idea is that to become rich, you should give money to the church.

Pentecostal and independent churches in Nigeria tap into the Nigerian dream: the aspiration of having and being seen to have cars, houses, money and power. To get more people to join his church, Dr Fireman believes portraying the right image is essential and shows the trappings of wealth his church has brought him. He travels everywhere with his bodyguards in one of his three yellow luxury cars with a combined worth of more than £150,000.

Read more: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported-world/episode-guide/series-2011/episode-14

Watch Darren Brown's "Miracle for Sale" on youtube to understand how gullible people can be.

Na wa ohhh, Me self they set up my church "Mugu Christian ministry"

Rhino.5dm:

Watch Darren Brown's "Miracle for Sale"  on youtube to understand how gullible people can be.

Seconded,

No matter what these investigators expose, the pews will keep filling, thanks to poverty and illiteracy that these pastors have exploited to the fullest,

to b shown tonight? which channel? Abeg make I laugh @d folly.
churches r becoming mere psychiatric homes where people go to see d shrink for one sort of psycho help but how naija pastors take advantage of d terrible socioeconomic situation n inflict more harm on people's psyche is pathetic.

Chanel 4 is in the UK right?

[size=13pt]"But there were also false prophets in Israel, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will cleverly teach destructive heresies and even deny the Master who bought them. In this way, they will bring sudden destruction on themselves.

Many will follow their evil teaching and shameful immorality. And because of these teachers, the way of truth will be slandered.

In their greed they will make up clever lies to get hold of your money. But God condemned them long ago, and their destruction will not be delayed." - 2 Peter 2 : 1-3[/size]

;d :d ;d

this is no news dude

eGuerrilla:

Nigeria's Millionaire Preachers



Read more: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/unreported-world/episode-guide/series-2011/episode-14

this is very misleading. It whets your appetite only for you to follow the link and realize you can't watch the advertised programme.

you should have simply written: to be shown tonight on channel 4 (UK).

webmanlag:

this is very misleading. It whets your appetite only for you to follow the link and realize you can't watch the advertised programme.

you should have simply written: to be shown tonight on channel 4 (UK).

Give a few days and this programme should also appear on youtube.
Just keep this link handy: [url=http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=videos&suggested_categories=43%2C24%2C27%2C25&uni=3&search_duration=long&search_query=unreported+world+channel+4]http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=videos&suggested_categories=43%2C24%2C27%2C25&uni=3&search_duration=long&search_query=unreported+world+channel+4
[/url]

I'll wait for the youtubed version.

i remember dis guy in my area o.girls used to like to attend the church cos dey said d guy is handsome.

and his pictures on his posters used to be dramatic; snapping pictures with raised eyebrows and all those overconscious poses.all that remained in d pictures ws for him 2 hold a gun like James Bond

my sisters and i used to laugh at his posters.lol

they even hd a publicity or evangelical outing recently.they went about with yellow hummers

wht is church turning into?

Sign Firman, a rogue. He always feel as if he is a God. He drives himself on a yellow hummer jeep while is followers trudge  on long distances.

He claimed sometime ago that he was going to distribute 15million naira to his gullible congregration in a crusade.

For sometime now his ministry has been on a downturn.

I have always maintained that if you give 10 percent of your money to a church/pastor who owns a Jet, while millions of people die of starvation in east africa, what you are practising is NOT Christianity, it's called idiocy!

violent:

I have always maintained that if you give 10 percent of your money to a church/pastor who owns a Jet, while millions of people die of starvation in east africa, what you are practising is NOT Christianity, it's called idiocy!

No, the quoted statement above is idiocy!

Everyone else has been making objective statements, until id[i]i[/i]ots like the person above stepped in. You do not just wake up and make blanket ignorant statements. I bet you probably have never been to one of the several schools that the church that has a jet has for the orphans, and you probably have never paid school fees for anyone in your life.

That is why you think you can use the anonymity of NL to talk and spew arrant garbage from your filthy mouth!

The starvation that you talk of was caused by people like Idi Amin, IBB, Mugabe, Museveni, Sassour Nguesso and all the other sit-tight despots dotted all over Africa.

So a sensible person will put the blame where it should go. Those who are in government are saddled with the responsibility of empowering its people economically. It is not the primary responsibility of the church.

So I will like you to tell me what you have personally done to bring the corrupt politicians in your country to book, as they are the ones responsible for the starvation of millions as you put it.

When Mohammed Farah Aideed was stealing aid meant for Somalia's starving, killing refugees and kidnapping aid workers, where were you? Today Somalia is a dead zone, caused by Aideed, Siad Barre and the other warlords. What have you personally done to better the lot of Somali refugees?

I can give you records of what the church that has a jet has done in that regard, with money from the pockets of its members. Let us know what you have done before you come here to demonstrate brazxen idiocy and poverty of reasoning.

I believe in God and the importance of fellowshipping with believers but
i think that religion is one massive hustle.

2 Bleep.ed miracle pastors almost tried to sleep with me in two different situations,


[size=15pt]bleeping GAYS[/size]

trust me, i Bleep.ed dem up biiig time,

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzLpyZomPDM?version=3&hl=en[/flash]

stagger:



I can give you records of what the church that has a jet has done in that regard, with money from the pockets of its members. Let us know what you have done before you come here to demonstrate brazxen idiocy and poverty of reasoning.

Is it possible to share the records pls?

dare2think:

Is it possible to share the records pls?

If you want it and you are objective about your reason for wanting it, then I can tell you how to obtain the records directly.

Yup, I'll be objective.



I'll use reason to judge based on what I see and what the establishment owns.

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@stagger

i'll also love to have details too, concrete details, thats what all of us are waiting for right?

One word, He is  a THIEF !!!!!!!!!!!


Pity, Pity gullible Nigerians.

We need to start a MOVEMENT to end all this madness, I really mean it !!!

did that pastor just say God is a game,

ada24:

did that pastor just say God is a game,

He's being very honest -

The 'devil' has taken over Nigeria ohh. . . .

Hear the man - Jesus was rich, had an accountant who's name was Judas -

Pastor ''Fireman'' lol
why e no be pastor police?

lol,

Nigerians dumb ohh, . . . . .  

Chai,