This is Your Day

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This is Your Day is a Christian television show hosted by pastor Benny Hinn and broadcast several times a week in the United States by the Trinity Broadcasting Network, the Daystar Television Network, Revelation TV, The Christian Channel, Vision TV, INSP Networks, The God Channel and various local affiliates.

The program began in the early 1990s and is a half-hour long. During the program Hinn and his helpers read letters, pray, and then show highlights from Hinn's "Miracle Crusades." Hinn and the crew of This is Your Day travel the world frequently, and a large part of the show is devoted to his crusades, in which Hinn is said to imbue people with the power of the Holy Spirit after they claim to have risen from wheelchairs, or have been healed of other ailments. Towards the final portion of the program Hinn sells products such as books, CDs, audio tapes, and movies.

The program has generated controversy due to widespread skepticism about Hinn being used by God to cure the sick as depicted in the show. Investigative news programs such as Inside Edition, Dateline NBC, and the fifth estate claim that Hinn uses the power of suggestion to make crusade attendees fall on stage and believe they're cured. Several tabloid newspapers, such as the National Enquirer, and tabloid television shows have claimed the supposedly cured were actually just pretending to be sick for the show.