Spreading the Good Word is done in varying ways from religion to religion. Some faiths use the community to bring the message door to door, others put a strong focus on the carnivalesque and yearly festivals to draw in new recuits. And then of course there are the great messengers, the teachers. Jesus, Siddhārtha Gautama, Gandhi, Beyoncé.

In what has to be one of the weirdest news stories this year, six leaders of a Singaporean “mega-church” have been convicted of a £23 million fraud for using church donations to fund a project to turn the pastor’s wife into a global rap star. Somehow, the judge wasn’t persuaded by Kong Hee, the founder and pastor, and his five aids who claimed the plot was a legitimate use of church funds to spread God’s word to the secular world by helping his partner break the US.

The music videos, starring Sun Ho, 43, who performs under the stage name ‘SUN aka Geisha’, are pretty sexually charged – so much so that the evangelical message doesn’t quite come through.