From Brazil to South Korea, from Justin Bieber to Bokai Osaka, Pentecostal Christianity is sweeping the globe.

For a moment or two, just pray in tongues.

Strike and strike and strike until you have victory for every enemy that is aligned against you.

By 2050, one in ten of us is predicted to be part of a movement that promises health, wealth and prosperity, and not just in heaven, but here and now.

The faith also says that there's nothing wrong with being rich and successful. It says no, it's fine in many ways it's a reward for your good faith.

In America, Pentecostals were the bedrock of Trump's support, with more than half of them believing he'd been anointed by God.

Even though he isn't necessarily known for his Christian morality.

It's someone who's ready to roll their sleeves up and get dirty on their behalf. They might want their Pentecostal preacher perhaps to live by the values that he's preaching, but the leader of the free world, maybe it's better if he's unconstrained by them.

What is Pentecostalism and why is it becoming one of the fastest growing religions?

You're listening to stories of our times from the times and the Sunday times. I'm Manvin Rana. Today, how Pentecostalism is taking over the world.

Over the last few years, journalist and foreign correspondent El Hardy has been following the global Pentecostal movement around the world.

In Nigeria, just outside Lagos, a city of 20 million people, she found a sort of highway to heaven, a redemption road.

All along the Lagos Ibadan Expressway, Nigeria's busiest road, Pentecostal mega-churches now line the street.

The redeemed Christian Church of God was the first. The mega-church opened its campground at the site 40 years ago. It's now the size of a city.

And a centre of gravity for the Christian world in Africa.

The large campground is three kilometres by three kilometres, so that could fit six Vatican's inside of it.

Generally, there'll be at least 100,000 people there at a time. I was there during the pandemic, so I wasn't able to see it in full flight.

It looks like an airport hanger. It's a really large, high corrugated iron ceiling roof. It's outdoors. It's very almost ramshuckle pews.

And it's everything that traditional Christianity is not. It's austere, it's improvised. It's bubbling with the miraculous.

It's a hopeful, exciting place that is very set apart from the rest of Lagos. People think of Lagos as very corrupt and a hard grind.

And this is their place to be hopeful and place to be full of miracles and full of joy.

Redemption City, as this particular church ground is called, they have a university, a hospital in many parts of the streets are paved.

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