An online auction listing for one of Brian Tamaki's covenant rings says the auction is an opportunity to own "a weird piece of New Zealand history".

A Destiny Church pastor working for a child-fostering body that gets $10m a year in Govt funding is placing children with Destiny members.

'You would be expected to take a bullet to protect your pastor,' a former Destiny Church member who worked as a security guard says.

A good week was when there was enough food on the table for her seven children, or money to buy clothes and school books.

Bishop Brian Tamaki is paid an average of $3000 each time he preaches at a Destiny Church outside of Auckland.

A New Zealand family expelled from Morocco on religious grounds is struggling to come to terms with the situation.

Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki has denied he feels up against it after an onslaught of publicity following a Brisbane pastor's walk-out.

Former Destiny Church members claim families are pressured to give "love offerings" and other cash donations above the expected 10 per cent tithe.

Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki says his $1 million-plus home and $75,000 car are "not much" of a reward for decades of clean and righteous living and taking his message to the masses.

Brian Tamaki claims he had been ready to take a vow of poverty, but that was not what God wanted.