12th July, 2012: Judgement is passed in favor of Bishop Oyedepo over the slapping of a lady at Shiloh for claiming she was a ‘witch for Jesus’. Bishop Oyedepo replied insisting that ‘Jesus had no witch’. The suit against Bishop David Oyedepo and The Board of Trustees of Living Faith Church was struck off by the presiding Judge, Honourable Justice M. Ojo of Court 1, Ogun State High Court, Ota and a fine awarded against the plaintiff, Barrister Robert Igbinedion.
12 July, 2015: On a Sunday, a bomb attack on the Evangelical Church Winning All Church in Jos, Plateau State was averted. A guard risked his life to save hundreds of worshippers in the Church when he picked up a bomb planted in the Church and threw it away as it was about to explode.
12 July, 2009: Most Reverend Dr. Humphrey Bamisebi Olumakaiye is consecrated Bishop in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. Olumakaiye was elected Bishop on 22 May, 2009 at the age of 40, while he was enthroned on Thursday, 16 July, 2009 at Cathedral Church of St. Philip’s, Otan Ayegbaju as the first Bishop of Anglican Diocese of Osun North East.
12 July, 1536: Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch scholar and the first editor of the Greek New Testament, passed on to glory in Basel. He was one of the leading scholars who influenced the Protestant Reformation.
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