United States Senate inquiry into the tax-exempt status of religious organizations Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Benny Hinn Ministries=== In a letter to [[Benny Hinn|Benny Hinn Ministries]],<ref>{{cite news |url=http://media.npr.org/documents/2007/nov/grassley/hinn.pdf |title=Read Grassley's Letters |publisher=[[npr.org]] |date=2007-12-04 |access-date=2007-12-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130810214446/http://media.npr.org/documents/2007/nov/grassley/hinn.pdf |archive-date=2013-08-10 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Grassley asked for the ministry to divulge financial information<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16860611 |title=Senator Probes Megachurches' Finances by Kathy Lohr |publisher=[[npr.org]] |date=2007-12-04 |access-date=2007-12-10}}</ref> to the Senate Committee on Finance to determine if Hinn made any personal profit from financial donations, and requested that Hinn's ministry make the information available by December 6, 2007.<ref name="Televangelists Living Like Kings">{{cite news |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/06/cbsnews_investigates/main3462147.shtml |title=Televangelists Living Like Kings? |publisher=[[CBS News]] |date=2007-11-06 |access-date=2007-09-17}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Lohr |first=Kathy |title=Senator Probes Megachurches' Finances |publisher=[[National Public Radio]] |date=2007-12-04 |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16860611 |access-date=2007-12-06}}</ref> On December 6, 2007, Hinn told the Associated Press that he would not respond to the inquiry until 2008.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=071206_1__Aseco62017 |title=Hinn joins Dollar in refusing to answer questions in Senate investigation |newspaper=[[Tulsa World]] |date=2007-12-06 |access-date=2007-12-06}}</ref> Hinn's ministry has since responded to the inquiry, and Senator Grassley commented that, "... Benny Hinn [has] engaged in open and honest dialogue with committee staff. They have not only provided responses to every question but, in the spirit of true cooperation, also have provided information over and above what was requested."<ref>{{cite press release |title=Grassley Update on Ministry Responses, Background Questions and Answers |publisher=Senator [[Chuck Grassley]] |date=2008-07-07 |url=http://grassley.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=fe9bb4ff-e266-e111-a62f-f246986f15ce&Month=7&Year=2008 |access-date=2008-07-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080730222121/http://grassley.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.Detail&PressRelease_id=fe9bb4ff-e266-e111-a62f-f246986f15ce&Month=7&Year=2008 |archive-date=2008-07-30 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page