Dear friends, The court proceedings have been going on steadily since September 2011 and finally they have started reading the charges. It has also now become clear why Pastor Sunday Adelaja is being charged with criminal offence - the prosecutors are basing their arguments on three points: 1.    They believe…

Below is an overview of what has been going on with the Embassy of the Blessed Kingdom of God for All Nations in Kiev and its Senior Pastor Sunday Adelaja.

• Sunday Adelaja left his native Nigeria from a forty-hut village in 1986 to the then Soviet Union, where he was recruited to be sent back to Africa as a socialist revolutionary. But instead Sunday Adelaja soon became the biggest Evangelical influence in all of Europe.
• In 1993, he relocated to the Ukraine to work as a journalist. This was following the completion of his masters’ degree in Journalism, which he obtained from the Belarusian State University.
• In 1994, he started his fast-growing interdenominational church that soon became both a political and social power house in Ukraine.
• In 2004, members of the church took an active part in the events of the orange revolution. This action resulted in Pastor Sunday Adelaja being declared as a persona non-grata in Russia by Vladimir Putin, former President of the a fore mentioned country. He was accused of being a voice and a herald of western value systems.