12th July, 2012: Judgement is passed in favour of Bishop Oyedepo on a 2 billion naira ($20 million dollars) suit by a certain Barr Robert Igbinedion over the slapping of a lady at Shiloh 2009 for insisting she was a ‘witch for Jesus’. Bishop Oyedepo replied ‘Jesus has no witch’. The suit which joined The Board of Trustees of Living Faith Church was struck off by the presiding Judge, Honourable Justice Mobolaji Ojo of Court 1, Ogun State High Court, Ota as ‘lacking in merit’ because the alleged victim tagged as ‘Miss Justice’ with no real identity was not a party to the suit and a fine of N20,000 ($200) naira awarded against 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. He was the Anglican Bishop of Lagos Diocese, and Archbishop of the Ecclesiastical Province of Lagos (Anglican Communion), Church of Nigeria until he passed on to glory in 2022
12th 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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