FACT CHECK: The Iglesia Ni Cristo is the current Title Holder of Largest Gospel Choir

FACT CHECK: Iglesia Ni Cristo is the current Title Holder of Largest Gospel Choir

By: Gabriel Pangilinan

    The current holder of “The World Largest Choir” by the Guinness Book of World Record is the Global Church, the Iglesia Ni Cristo (Church of Christ).

    What is the basis or proofs that Iglesia ni Cristo is the current title holder of 'The Largest Gospel Choir?'

    The Guinness World Records posted a photo confirming that Iglesia Ni Cristo is the title holder of 'The Largest Gospel Choir' in their twitter post on May 22, 2022.

Date Posted: May 22, 2022

Guinness Twitter Post: https://twitter.com/GWR/status/1528368078366515200?t=siwWeeTKVfn5xKf2OAMn2g&s=19

Guinness World Records Official Website

See here: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-gospel-choir

There's no adjudicator from Guinness to facilitate the INC's event?

    Yes, There's no adjudicator from Guinness but there is Auditing Firm commissioned by Guinness World Records

See here: https://youtu.be/NXs1e51UQ2k

    If you look at the video, the Auditing Firm commissioned by GWR announces that Iglesia Ni Cristo is the Largest Gospel Choir

What is the truth behind INC and MCGI sect about the 'Largest Gospel Choir?'

    The members of the choir MCGI sect thus traveled both from various local churches as well as countries in the Americas and Africa to the Araneta Coliseum in Manila, Philippines. The performance eventually amounted to a total of 8,688 singers only.

    It therefore ended up forming the largest gospel choir ever, shattering the record of 4,745 people, achieved by the Iglesia Ni Cristo the previous year. The songs that the chorale performed were all the original composition of choir member and mentor Mr. Norman Caraballo Rueda and the remarkable concert lasted for an impressive length of 15 minutes.

    A year later, on May 22, 2016, the choir Iglesia Ni Cristo gathered in Ciudad de Victoria, Philippines, for a new attempt at breaking the world record. The gospel choir ended up consisting of 21,262 participants! The choir collectively sang 3 hymns accompanied by an organ and won the Guinness World Record as the Largest Gospel Choir in the World - a title that they still hold today.

Source & References:

(1) Guinness World Record Official Twitter post (May 22, 2022) https://twitter.com/GWR/status/1528368078366515200?t=siwWeeTKVfn5xKf2OAMn2g&s=19 (2) Guinness World Record Official Twitter post (Oct. 4, 2021)

https://twitter.com/GWR/status/1444976465913782272?t=y0QIZE5JsYOcccDHpKGN6g&s=19 (3) Guinness World Record Official Website

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-gospel-choir (4) Summary of GWR Largest Gospel Choir (Interkultur) https://www.interkultur.com/newsroom/world-of-voices/details/news/the-largest-record-breaking-choirs-in-the-world/#:~:text=The%20record%20for%20the%20world's,unison%20for%20over%205%20minutes. (5) Johannus Website

https://www.johannus.com/en/multimedia/johannus-organ-accompanies-largest-gospel-choir-in-the-world (6) Guinness World Record Official Twitter post (May, 2021)

https://mobile.twitter.com/gwr/status/1396184839481696258?lang=en (7) Anouncement of Auditing Firm commissioned by GWR (time - 5:24) https://youtu.be/Fy5ytkTSoGY (8) Anouncement of Auditing Firm commissioned by GWR Video clip (time - 47) https://youtu.be/NXs1e51UQ2k (9) Talakayan Ph Youtube (time - 2:20) https://youtu.be/eYW275yhVJw (10) Pinoy History https://www.facebook.com/Pinoyhistorygroup/photos/a.763273100395916/1086818074708082/?type=3&app=fbl