Emmanuel TV (DStv 390), a well-known Catholic TV channel, has stated that it will be departing MultiChoice's DStv and GOTV, as well as other pay-TV providers, effective January 17, 2024.
DStv and GOtv, two MultiChoice platforms, would no longer carry Emmanuel TV, which is owned by the late Prophet Temitope Babatunde Joshua, the controversial Nigerian theologian and founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations.
This development coincides with the BBC's three-part series, which describes the alleged crimes and atrocities against his students that late TB Joshua perpetrated.
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Joel passed away on June 5, 2021. The BBC spoke with at least thirty former employees and members of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) as part of the inquiry. The documentary's first installment is slated for release on January 8.
The now-deceased SCOAN founder's covert lifestyle was exposed in the three-part series. It told graphic tales of rape, abuse, deception, and staged healings.
Sources informed the BBC that although the church was aware of all the accusations, it never looked into them. They said that more than 20 years passed during the sexual offense.
A video segment exposed how SCOAN hid the truth from its members over the 2014 collapse of one of the church's guesthouses.
A brief film of the building with what appeared to be an aircraft flying over it was presented to members on Emmanuel TV on many occasions.
The late televangelist TB Joshua launched Emmanuel TV in Nigeria in 2006; during the years, the channel grew in prominence and audience, becoming one of the most subscribed Christian ministry YouTube channels worldwide.
However, in April 2021, YouTube shut down the channel due to “gay curing” claims, as it violated policies against alleging mental illness, disease, or inferiority based on membership in a protected group, including sexual orientation.
As a result, Emmanuel TV was forced to restart on YouTube, and Facebook also deleted several of its posts for similar reasons.
After TB Joshua passed away in June 2021, Emmanuel TV produced less new content than it did on a large scale while Joshua was alive and instead mostly relied on rebroadcasting old content and repetitions of the late televangelist's programs.
It was learned that the Synagogue Church of All Nations' current leadership, led by Pastor Evelyn Joshua, the late founder's widow, is dealing with a number of difficulties as a result of their incapacity to completely fill the shoes of the late T.B. Joshua.
Even while it appears that the current administration is making every effort to revitalize the church following the passing of Prophet Joshua by implementing numerous programs aimed at attracting both new and lost members, that goal has not yet been accomplished.
