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Benny Hinn's Biography in Summary

Due to his ascendancy to the leadership of a megachurch and his healing crusades, Benny is well-known all over the world.

Siblings and family life


Benny Hinn was born on December 3, 1952, in the port city of Jaffa, which is now a part of Tel Aviv, Israel. His family immigrated to Palestine from Greece.

The preacher, Toufik Benedictus "Benny" Hinn, was born to Constandi and Celmence Hinn. He has six siblings: Michael, Henry, William, Chris, Sam, and Rose.

Hinn's family relocated to Canada in 1968, not long after the six-day war (sometimes referred to as the June War, the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, or the Third Arab-Israeli War), which was fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab states.

pursuing televangelism and gospel

At the age of 20, Hinn would receive a call to salvation, and in February 1972, he gave his life to Jesus Christ in the company of his high school friends who had joined him in prayer.

Not long after, early 20s preacher Benny Hinn felt compelled to preach the gospel. This marked the start of an evangelical movement that would quickly take off and expand all over the world.
 

Hinn reported seeing a vision in 1974 in which he saw people plunging into a flaming fire and heard someone say, "If you do not preach, every soul that falls will be your responsibility!"

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The televangelist has never looked back in his mission to save souls through conferences, TV broadcasts, the Internet, printed pages, audio-video recordings, and Miracle Healing Services. He initially mounted the pulpit to preach the gospel on December 7, 1974.

Inspired by his quest to rescue lives, Hinn journeyed to Orlando, Florida, where he established the Orlando Christian Center in 1983. In the years that followed, he held Miracle Healing Crusades on television.

He introduced This Is Your Day, a new daily talk program, in 1990. It featured testimonials from people who claimed to have been healed during his miraculous campaigns.
Benny Hinn established the corporate headquarters of the Benny Hinn Ministries/World Healing Center Church in Grapevine, Texas, and the organization quickly grew throughout the United States.

Matrimony, separation, and reunification of spouses

On August 4, 1979, Benny Hinn wed Suzanne Harthern Hinn. Suzanne supported Hinn as his ministry expanded rapidly until 2010, when the couple's marriage temporarily collapsed and they got divorced.

In February 2010, it was verified by Don Price, the longstanding senior advisor to Benny Hinn Ministries, that Suzanne had filed for divorce in Orange County Superior Court on February 1, 2010, citing irreconcilable differences.
 

The pair had been away from each other for a week as of the petition's filing on January 26.

The Hinns' marriage repair was attributed to prayers, repentance, forgiveness, and personal healing; on March 3, 2013, the couple remarried.

When the marriage separated, there were rumors that Benny Hinn was seeing Paula White, a fellow preacher. The National Enquirer published a story about this claiming to have images of the two of them holding hands as they left a Rome hotel.

The preacher refuted any affair and made it plain that he and Hinn were friends, putting an end to the accusations.

Protesting miraculous healers and the prosperity gospel

Hinn has been embroiled in difficulties due to accusations that he has faked miracles.

The insider: Tales from inside Benny Hinn Ministries, a documentary by The Fifth Estate, featured Costi Hinn, Benni Hinn's nephew, who worked with the televangelist for many years.

Costi Hinn asserted that the televangelist is a scammer who used the prosperity gospel to launch a business that was consuming people, and that phony healings predominated in Hinn's offerings.

It resembles a Ponzi scheme exactly. The guy at the top is the only one who is becoming wealthy. Costi said.


The preacher was flanked, according to insiders, by "screeners" who would prevent people who were actually ill and in need of healing from getting to the platform where Hinn performed his miracles and would only permit some people to "be healed."

In the documentary, where journalists went undercover to examine the healings and track down some of the attendees, Costi said, "I saw the testimony of healing and the stories of healing but I never saw once saw a real healing."

The documentary followed those who had witnessed the healing miracles performed by Hinn.

Hinn rejected the accusations, stating that they are irrational, false, and misleading, including the ones made by his nephew.

charitable endeavors

The core of many efforts is the televangelist's ministry.
Among the ministry-related projects are the children's homes run by My Father's House in Asia and Mexico.

Thousands of people receive religious instruction, food, clothing, shelter, crisis relief, hospital treatment, and feeding programs, among other things.
 

Benny Hinn in Kenya

In February 2024, Benny hosted a healing crusade in Kenya, Nyayo stadium in Nairobi