Editing Benny Hinn (section)

==="Do You Believe in Miracles"===

In November 2004, the [[CBC Television]] show ''[[The Fifth Estate (TV)|The Fifth Estate]]'' did a special titled "Do You Believe in Miracles" on the apparent transgressions committed by Hinn's ministry.<ref name="FifthEstate">{{cite news 
  | last = McKeown
  | first = Bob 
  | title = Do You Believe in Miracles?
  |author-link = Bob McKeown
  | work = [[The Fifth Estate (TV)|The Fifth Estate]]
  | publisher = [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]
  |date=December 2004
  | url = http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/main_miracles.html
  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130810164015/http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/main_miracles.html
  | url-status = dead
  | archive-date = 2013-08-10
  | access-date =2013-10-29
}}</ref>

With the aid of hidden cameras and crusade witnesses, the producers of the show demonstrated Hinn's apparent misappropriation of funds, his fabrication of the truth, and the way in which his staff chose crusade audience members to come on stage to proclaim their miracle healings.<ref name="FifthEstate"/> In particular, the investigation highlighted the fact that the most desperate miracle seekers who attend a Hinn crusade—the quadriplegics, the brain-damaged, virtually anyone with a visibly obvious physical condition—are never allowed on stage; those who attempt to be in the line of possible healings are intercepted and directed to return to their seats.

At one Canadian service, hidden cameras showed a mother who was carrying her [[muscular dystrophy]]-afflicted daughter, Grace, being stopped by two screeners when they attempted to get into the line for a possible blessing from Hinn. The screeners asked the mother if Grace had been healed, and when the mother replied in the negative, they were told to return to their seats; the pair got out of line, but Grace, wanting "Pastor Benny to pray for [her]", asked her mother to support her as she tried to walk as a show of "her faith in action", according to the mother. After several unsuccessful attempts at walking, the pair left the arena in tears, both mother and daughter visibly upset at being turned aside and crying as they explained to the undercover reporters that all Grace had wanted was for Hinn to pray for her, but the staffers rushed them out of the line when they found out Grace had not been healed.<ref name="FifthEstate" /> A week later at a service in Toronto, Baptist evangelist Justin Peters who wrote his Masters in Divinity thesis on Hinn<ref name="JustinPetersThesis">{{cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/thesis.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130810184800/http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/thesis.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2013-08-10|title=Benny Hinn and Healing|author=Peters, Justin|access-date=2013-10-29 | work=CBC News}}</ref> and has attended numerous Hinn crusades since 2000 as part of his research for his thesis and for a seminar he developed about the Word of Faith movement entitled ''A Call for Discernment'',<ref name="ACallForDiscernment">{{cite web|url=http://justinpeters.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=5|title=Seminar overview for ''A Call for Discernment''|author=Peters, Justin|access-date=2010-07-14 |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20100806071018/http://justinpeters.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5&Itemid=5 |archive-date=2010-08-06}}</ref> also demonstrated to the hidden cameras that "people who look like me"—Peters has [[cerebral palsy]], walks with arm-crutches, and is obviously and visibly disabled—"are ''never'' allowed on stage ... it's always somebody who has some disability or disease that cannot be readily seen." Like Grace and her mother, Peters was quickly intercepted as he came out of the wheelchair section (there is one at every crusade, situated at the back of the audience far away from the stage and never filmed for Hinn's TV show) in an attempt to join the line of those waiting to go onstage, and was told to take a seat.<ref name="FifthEstate" />