HeyCorleone:

Pope Francis recently auctioned his Lamborghini with 70% of the proceeds to go to a Muslim country. Can your bishop do such? The Catholic church doesn't even place emphasis on tithe, rather it places emphasis on giving to the poor, which is basically what Christ was about in the new testament.

cyrilamx:
It is not the wealth of entire Catholic Church rather only the expenditure of the Catholic Church in the US exceed $180B annually spend a schools and hospitals far exceed the wealth of Winners, RCCG, Christ Embassy, Synagogue Church of all Nations, combined let alone the entire Catholic Church in the World.

deathwing:


You just simply outlined how a religious body who is suppose to give to ceasar what is ceasar's should avoid paying lawful tax. If your comment isn't a product of prosperity Gospel taking root to the exclusion of all else, I wonder what is.

CodeTemplar:
Wow. That's heavenly economy. This will Let the church haters start clamouring for Religious tax that is targeted at the church alone.

HigherEd:
And I can attest that in January of 2011 Winners Chapel paid 1.5 Billion naira in Tithe to RCCG for the month. Assuming the size of the January Tithe was not a surge due to Shiloh sacrifice. That puts Winners Tithe to RCCG at 1.5 billion x 12months = 18 billion. 18 billion x 10 = 180billion naira annual income. If this is a true reflection of the financial state of Winners Chapel. It means winners chapel is wealthier than Ekiti, Ebonyi and Yobe put together and even wealthier than all south western state except Lagos(only IGR).

It is not unusual though for this kind money to be in one church, the catholic church is wealthier than the top 3 corporations in the world combined with an annual expenditure of $174Billion.

Darkseid:
Church A pays 1 billion naira tithe to church B, church B in turn pays 1 billion to church A. Who they wan deceive abeg

HigherEd:

Well if they try that, the churches can easily centralise all their income in the US where Churches are exempted by law to pay tax. The foreign income from foreign stations would be diverted to USA and the Church reserves will also relocate to a more friendlier country. That I believe can hurt the Nigerian economy...(I tell you, if winners moves her reserves away from Nigeria at once, the bank holding the money will feel it)

They can lay hands on the offerings from Nigeria, but churches could make it harder for them by convincing members to pay online and route it to foreign accounts.

But then sef Winners pays taxes in other countries so no shaking. And Oyedepo has said the church is willing to pay taxes in Nigeria as long as the Muslims(Mosques) are included. Although he still makes a good point that canaanland provides its own water, electricity, road, schools, security etc so what is govt taxing them for exactly, especially since members already paid tax of the income they are tithing...

Personally I would forever stand against taxation of churches, the Anglicans, Ecwas, Baptist, Methodist are not as funded as the LFC, Christ embassy of this world. In the event of taxation it is the Orthodox they would catch, much of the Pentecostals can easily evade because of their foreign stations.

seguno2:


How many primary and secondary schools are built and run by the Catholic Church?
How many by Winners?
Relative to their wealth

omotuntun:
Wondering how many people legitimately earn such amount to pay such...