Church Verification Report
What we checked
- Not a duplicate: no similarly named church is listed with us
- The name reads as a real congregation
- Contact email reviewed (gmail.com, common for small churches)
- No website or social page was provided
- Independent web search performed: see the findings on the right
What we found
We searched for "Ministry of Salvation by Faith" together with Calavi and Benin, for a possible French form of the name ("Ministère du Salut par la Foi") in Abomey-Calavi, and for the initials MSF alongside the contact address msfbenin.org@gmail.com, and none of these turned up any page, directory entry, social media profile or news mention for this particular congregation. The results instead returned unrelated bodies: the Nigerian megachurch Salvation Ministries in Port Harcourt founded by Pastor David Ibiyeomie in 1997 (Wikipedia), a US-based Ministry of Salvation fellowship (theministryofsalvationfellowship.org), and the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières, which also uses the letters MSF in Benin (msf.org). The findings are summarized here for space; the full research was weighed in the review.
Our conclusion: The name "Ministry of Salvation by Faith" reads as a congregation rather than a person or business, the chosen verses (Ephesians 2:8-9 and Romans 3:24) are mainstream Christian, and nothing suggests another religion or a group outside historic Christian belief. However, our own web search found no page, directory listing, social media profile or news mention for this church in Abomey-Calavi, and the only matches were unrelated bodies such as Salv
We have asked this church for one piece of extra evidence: a photo, a link, its denomination, or a church that can vouch for it. The moment we can verify, this report is upgraded. Without a response, the listing is paused after 14 days.