Ukrainian Religious Leaders - Ukrainian Cardinals, Ukrainian Clergy, Sunday Adelaja, Patriarch Moses, Josyf Slipyj, Lubomyr Husar (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ukrainian Cardinals, Ukrainian Clergy, Sunday Adelaja, Patriarch Moses, Josyf Slipyj, Lubomyr Husar, Mieczysaw Mokrzycki, Marian Jaworski, Myroslav Ivan Lubachivsky, Vladimir Shelkov, Josyf Milyan, Mykhajlo Levitsky, Archbishop Alexy. Excerpt: Sunday Adelaja is the founder and senior pastor of the Embassy of God, an evangelical-charismatic megachurch in Kiev, Ukraine. He immigrated to the USSR and Belarus as a scholarship student from Nigeria in 1986 to study journalism. After graduation and the breakdown of the USSR, he started a couple of churches that he later handed over to other pastors before he moved from Belarus to Ukraine in December 1993. Adelaja has faced criticism from local groups, other Ukrainian Evangelical churches, the Eastern Orthodox Church and from foreign-based Christian countercult organisations as well as accusations of involvement in fraud. Adelaja's movement is also present in Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Latvia, Moldova, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, the United States and Uzbekistan. Sunday Sunkanmi Adelaja was born in the village of Idomila Ijebu-Ode, Nigeria. He was raised by his grandmother and became Christian in March 1986 just before graduating from high school. After graduation Adelaja left Nigeria to escape witchcraft and because he received a scholarship to study journalism at the Belarusian State University in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR. He claims he was threatened there by authorities for having a picture of Jesus in his house, but nevertheless, he began Christian activities in Russia during his studies. After graduating he was barred from returning to his coun... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=11824724