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Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption

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The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 3, 2024 by Gog the Mild (talk) 21:12, 20 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 
Oliver in 2014

Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption was a legally recognized church in the United States established by the comedian and satirist John Oliver. Announced on August 16, 2015, in an episode of the television program Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, the church's purpose was to highlight and criticize televangelists, such as Kenneth Copeland and Robert Tilton, whom Oliver argued used television broadcasts of Christian church services for private gain. Oliver also established Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption to draw attention to the tax-exempt status given to churches and charities. During his show on September 13, 2015, Oliver announced that the church had received over $70,000 and a variety of other items from viewers, and stated that the Church would be shutting down. All donations were given to Doctors Without Borders. Oliver set up spinoffs of the Church in 2018 and 2021. The segments and future spinoff segments featured the comedian Rachel Dratch as Oliver's fictional wife, Wanda Jo. (Full article...)

  • Support because I, too, want to see Oliver on the main page. – Epicgenius (talk) 16:18, 14 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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