*The son of charismatic Christian evangelist Benny Hinn was detained along with two bodyguards employed by the ministry for allegedly assaulting a man described as “deaf and dumb” during an evangelistic event in Manaus, Brazil, reports the Christian Post.
The Daily Mail reported Monday that 21-year-old Joshua Hinn, Caleb Shirk, 26, and Konstantins Konstantinovs, 34, apprehended Hestephenson Araujo as he approached minister Hinn during his sermon with a bottle of water. Araujo had reportedly attended the miracle healing crusade on Saturday at the Provos da Amazonia arena in hopes of getting a blessing from Hinn, who claims to have an “anointing,” or special power from God, that gives him the supernatural ability to heal people.
Hinn, Shirk and Konstantins allegedly grabbed Araujo, 21, whom they thought was going to throw water at the minister. They are accused of taking the deaf and dumb man to a trailer where they interrogated and beat him, the Daily Mail reports. Araujo was eventually rescued by police, who had been called to the arena by “concerned members of the public.”
Read the full story at the Christian Post.
I KNOW you did not refer to this man as “deaf and dumb!” I haven’t heard that term used in at least 30 years!! Who is writing and editing this stuff? Surely you know that the term “dumb,” which used to mean a person who could not speak has been replaced by “mute.” In other words, if the person has to be categorized, he would be a “deaf mute,” not “deaf and dumb.” You should be ashamed.
My BIG problems with Benny Hinn are his failed prophecies and strange doctrines. Benny claimed Holy Spirit anointing to prophesy that Fidel Castro would die “in the nineties”. At the same time as this death, he prophesied, all the homosexuals in the USA would be executed “by the fire of God”. He publicly cursed his critics, and preached that Jesus was born again, and Adam could fly to the moon. Look it up on YouTube, and read Deuteronomy 18:20-22. Would a local church pastor get away with it?
The Bible mentions that there would many false teachers and he’s just one of many….