Joshua,
who surpassed the milestone on the evening of Monday, December 14,
2020, thanked his followers in a Facebook post commemorating the feat.
“Thank
you for joining us in our mission of changing lives, changing nations
and changing the world through the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ,” he
wrote, adding that “the best is yet to come”.
The
cleric, who leads The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations (SCOAN) in Lagos
and founded the popular Christian channel Emmanuel TV, beat Pastor
Enoch Adeboye, another popular Nigerian Pastor, to the milestone by a
slim margin.
Adeboye,
the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church Of God (RCCG) has
4,981,000 followers on his official Facebook Page as at the time of
filing this report.
Controversial
Malawian ‘Prophet’ Shepherd Bushiri has almost 4,200,000 followers
whilst the head of Winners Chapel, Bishop David Oyedepo, has just under
2,500,000 followers on the social media platform.
Abuja-based
Pastor Joshua Iginla has 3,100,000 followers, leader of Dunamis Dr Paul
Enenche has 1,900,000, Ugandan Samuel Kakande has 1,800,000, Pastor
Alph Lukau from South Africa has 1,500,000 whilst Ghanaian Archbishop
Nicholas Duncan-Williams has 1,300,000.
Joshua’s
‘miracle’ videos especially attract attention. A clip posted to his
Facebook page last week showing a young boy receiving ‘a miracle’ during
Joshua’s crusade in the Dominican Republic in 2017 has been viewed a
staggering 32,000,000 times since being posted.
His
large following comes mainly from outside Nigeria with the cleric’s
popularity particularly evident in Latin America, Southern Africa and
parts of Asia.
In
addition, Joshua’s YouTube channel Emmanuel TV is the most viewed
Christian ministry channel worldwide with 1,800,000 subscribers and over
six hundred million views.
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