Official Emmanuel TV

Emmanuel TV is a Nigerian Christian television channel and network that was launched in 2006 by Nigerian televangelist Temitope Balogun Joshua or simply TB Joshua † (born: June 12, 1963 - June 5, 2021). The channel broadcasts events in the Synagogue, Church of All Nations (SCOAN), which is TB's megachurch, that was established in 1987https://theconversation.com/how-tb-joshua-overcame-odds-to-establish-a-spiritual-empire-far-beyond-nigeria-162313. The Emmanuel TV YouTube and TV channels are extremely controversial for their views on the LGBTQ+ community, with videos treating LGBTQ people as inferior people in society and possessed by demons.
== Controversy ==
=== Channel termination ===
On April 13, 2021, the channel was terminated due to UK-based independent media platform openDemocracy filing a complaint after reviewing seven of the channel's videos between 2016 and 2020.https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56771246These videos would often feature TB himself claiming he had a cure to or could cure homosexuality. In one of these videos, TB slaps and pushes a woman named Okoye and an unnamed woman 16 times to the ground, telling Okoye: "There is a spirit disturbing you. She has transplanted herself into you. It is the spirit of woman." At the end of the video, she is shown testifying that before the congregation, "the spirit of woman" had possessed her. She says that she had stopped dating the same sex and will now date men. The video had over 1.5 million viewshttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-56771246 before it was taken down. Emmanuel TV responded to the termination, saying that "this decision was made in haste"https://www.facebook.com/tbjministries/posts/4153198611467550. A spokesperson at YouTube responded to Emmanuel TV saying that it violated their Community Guidelines that "prohibits content which alleges that someone is mentally ill, diseased, or inferior because of their membership in a protected group including sexual orientation".
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