This is Your Day is a Christian

Christianity

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 television

Television

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 show hosted by pastor Benny Hinn

Benny Hinn

Toufik Benedictus "Benny" Hinn הין; born December 3, 1952) is a televangelist, best known for his regular "Miracle Crusades" – revival meeting/faith healing summits that are usually held in large stadiums in major cities, which are later broadcast worldwide on his television program, This Is Your...

 and broadcast several times a week in the United States

United States

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 by the Trinity Broadcasting Network

Trinity Broadcasting Network

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, the Daystar Television Network

Daystar Television Network

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, Revelation TV

Revelation TV

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, Grace TV, VisionTV, INSP Networks, The God Channel and various local affiliates to an estimated four million followers. The program began in 1990 and is a half-hour long.

Synopsis

During the program, Hinn and his helpers read letters, pray, and then show highlights from Hinn's "Miracle Crusades." Hinn and his crew travel the world frequently, and a large part of the show is devoted to his crusades, in which Hinn is said to imbue people with the power of the Holy Spirit

Holy Spirit

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 after they claim to have risen from wheelchairs, or have been healed of other ailments. Towards the final portion of the program Hinn offers gifts such as books, CDs, audio tapes, and movies as a thank you to viewers sending seed offerings. He then, using the word of knowledge, prays daily for healings in his viewing audience. Finally he concludes with an invitation for viewers to receive Jesus

Jesus

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 as their Personal Savior.

Controversy

The program has generated controversy due to widespread skepticism about Hinn's faith healing

Faith healing

Faith healing is healing through spiritual means. The healing of a person is brought about by religious faith through prayer and/or rituals that, according to adherents, stimulate a divine presence and power toward correcting disease and disability. Belief in divine intervention in illness or...

s depicted in the show. Investigative news programs such as Inside Edition

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, Dateline NBC

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, and the fifth estate

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claim that Hinn uses the power of suggestion to make crusade attendees fall on stage and believe they're cured. Several tabloid newspaper

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s, such as the National Enquirer,. and tabloid television shows have claimed the supposedly cured were actually just pretending to be sick for the show.