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Pastor. Abimbola Rosemary "Bimbo" Odukoya [1] [2] (nee Williams; 12 September 1960 – 11 December 2005), was a Nigerian pastor and televangelist who was married to her fellow co-founder of the Fountain of Life Church, Taiwo Odukoya . Odukoya, often called "Pastor Bims", [2] was a receiver of over 60 national and international awards for her ...
v. t. e. Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Christian minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. A black church leader and a son of early civil rights activist and ...
Plant City, Florida, U.S. Genres. Soul/Gospel. Occupation (s) Musician. Bernard Thomas (August 22, 1948 – June 16, 2019), better known as Bishop Bullwinkle, was an American singer/comedian best known for appearing in the viral YouTube video "Hell to the Naw Naw".
Emmett Till. Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American teenager who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long ...
1944–1946. Rank. First lieutenant. Battles/wars. World War II. William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; [a] November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative writer, public intellectual, and political commentator. [1] Born in New York City, Buckley spoke Spanish as his first language before learning French ...
Eddie Long. Eddie Lee Long (May 12, 1953 – January 15, 2017) was an American pastor who served as the senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a megachurch in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, from 1987 until his death in 2017. When Long started as pastor for New Birth Church, there were 300 church members, which grew to ...
Apollo Carreon Quiboloy ( locally [kɪboˈlɔɪ]; born April 25, 1950) [a] is a Filipino pastor, and leader of the Philippines -based Restorationist church known as the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KJC or KOJC). [5] [6] He founded the KOJC in 1985 and has made grand claims that he is the "Appointed Son of God" and "the Owner of the Universe".
Gilbert E. Patterson. Gilbert Earl Patterson (September 22, 1939 [1] – March 20, 2007 [2]) was an American Holiness Pentecostal leader and Pastor who served as the National Presiding Bishop and Founder of the Temple of Deliverance COGIC Cathedral of Bountiful Blessings and Chief Apostle of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), Incorporated.