YouTube blocks Nigerian preacher TB Joshua’s report on gay healing allegations

YouTube blocks Nigerian preacher TB Joshua’s report on gay healing allegations

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“I learned what happened to YouTube when I saw the viewers complain … I want you to help me pray for YouTube … Do not see them the other way around; see them as friends. We need to be strong, ‘TB Joshua said in a sermon posted on the ministry’s Facebook page over the weekend.

The YouTube channel of The Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) – managed by Joshua – was deactivated last week and can no longer be viewed by the nearly two million subscribers.

OpenDemocracy, a media rights group based in the UK, told CNN that it sent a message to YouTube on April 8 asking if the videos for conversion therapy did not violate its policy.

“We noticed at least seven videos. In one video, TB Joshua slapped a woman and her partner he calls her ‘second’ (partner) at least 16 times,” said Lydia Namubiru, OpenDemocracy’s Africa editor.

“He said he was throwing the ‘spirit of the woman’ out of her,” Namubiru said as she told the content of the footage tagged by her organization to YouTube and Facebook. The woman later told Joshua that she no longer had love for her partner due to her intervention, Namubiru said.

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“In another, a young person … is slapped several times and his dreadlocks are shaved off before he testifies that he is no longer attracted to men,” Namubiru added.

YouTube has not issued a public statement about it. CNN tried to contact YouTube for comment, but was unsuccessful.

CNN sees an email sent to OpenDemocracy on April 13 by a YouTube spokesman saying, “YouTube’s Community Guidelines prohibit hate speech and we remove flagged videos and comments that violate this policy. In this case, we have terminated the channel … We have the videos tagged to us and taken appropriate steps, which resulted in the termination of the channel. ‘

‘Prosperity Gospel’

Emmanuel TV, the church’s broadcaster, is broadcast in Africa on DSTV – a satellite service owned by the South African firm MultiChoice.

CLEAN plays host to dozens of international guests and local celebrities who visit the worship center for prayers.
In 2011, Joshua was listed by Forbes as the third richest minister in Nigeria with an estimated net worth of between $ 10- $ 15 million.

In a statement posted on Facebook last week, TB Joshua Ministries said he would appeal YouTube’s decision to discontinue the channel.

“Emmanuel TV’s mission is to share the love of God with everyone – regardless of race or religion – and we are strong against all forms of hate speech! We’ve had a long and fruitful relationship with YouTube and believe that this decision in a hurry … we are making every effort to appeal against this decision and restore the channel, ”reads the statement.
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The Lagos-based mega-church has also called on millions of followers to protest against YouTube’s actions on social media – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Youtube.

In response to Joshua’s doctrinal methods, a spokesman for the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), an umbrella body of Christian groups in the country, told CNN the association “does not interfere in how churches are run or how individuals run their worship centers. not. “

The YouTube sanction is holding Joshua a big blow, whose ministries and humanitarian outreach are being shown in various parts of the world on the popular video platform.

Joshua gained notoriety in the late 1990s after the flourishing of ‘prosperity gospel’ – a Pentecostal doctrine that good health and financial blessing depend on the depth of faith an individual can demonstrate.
However, he experienced national notoriety in 2014 after a building on SCOAN’s premises collapsed and more than 100 people died, most of whom were foreigners from South Africa, the Chinese state media reported CCTV.

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