“No matter how fast a lie runs, the truth will someday overtake it.”

— T. B. Joshua

On lies and truth - "TB Joshua Rejects Courts Findings, Insists Building Collapse Was A Sabotage" http://citifmonline.com/2015/07/10/tb-joshua-rejects-courts-findings-insists-building-collapse-a-sabotage/ Citi FM, Ghana (July 10 2015)

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Nigerian Christian leader 1963

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