Christian Banker becomes Mayor of Kiev
Millionaire Banker and Presidential Candidate Leonid Chernovetsky has become the new Mayor of Kiev. He is a member of the Embassy of God Church led by Sunday Adelaja, a Nigerian, who founded the church 12 years ago. With over 25,000 members it is the largest church in Europe.
'Kyiv has got its first new mayor in a decade, following the March 26 upset of 67-year-old incumbent Oleksandr Omelchenko by his longtime rival, Leonid Chernovetsky, a businessman and member of Parliament.
With over 80 percent of the ballots counted on March 29, Chernovetsky had 32 percent of the vote, well ahead of former heavyweight boxing champion Vitaly Klitschko (23 percent) and Omelchenko (21 percent), despite long-running polls showing a different picture.
Trained as a lawyer, Chernovetsky is also a self proclaimed Christian activist.
“He (Chernovetsky) is very committed to the truth,” said Adelaja Sunday, senior pastor at the Embassy of God, a Kyiv-based evangelical church.
“He’s been a member of our church for the last 10 year,” said Sunday, adding that they work together to feed over a thousand people a day.
“We supply the people and he supplies the money.”
Widely reputed to control Ukraine’s Pravex-Bank, which is ranked 22 in terms of net assets, which total 400m dollars, Chernovetsky would be well placed to do this.
Sunday said that the homeless and alcoholics that his church helps may not have been influential in the March 26 vote, but other city residents who have heard of the charity work were.
According to Sunday, the Embassy of God has 25,000 regular members in Kyiv, but boasts 250,000 “affiliates” altogether.'
Report from the Kiev Post
'Kyiv has got its first new mayor in a decade, following the March 26 upset of 67-year-old incumbent Oleksandr Omelchenko by his longtime rival, Leonid Chernovetsky, a businessman and member of Parliament.
With over 80 percent of the ballots counted on March 29, Chernovetsky had 32 percent of the vote, well ahead of former heavyweight boxing champion Vitaly Klitschko (23 percent) and Omelchenko (21 percent), despite long-running polls showing a different picture.
Trained as a lawyer, Chernovetsky is also a self proclaimed Christian activist.
“He (Chernovetsky) is very committed to the truth,” said Adelaja Sunday, senior pastor at the Embassy of God, a Kyiv-based evangelical church.
“He’s been a member of our church for the last 10 year,” said Sunday, adding that they work together to feed over a thousand people a day.
“We supply the people and he supplies the money.”
Widely reputed to control Ukraine’s Pravex-Bank, which is ranked 22 in terms of net assets, which total 400m dollars, Chernovetsky would be well placed to do this.
Sunday said that the homeless and alcoholics that his church helps may not have been influential in the March 26 vote, but other city residents who have heard of the charity work were.
According to Sunday, the Embassy of God has 25,000 regular members in Kyiv, but boasts 250,000 “affiliates” altogether.'
Report from the Kiev Post
posted by WESLEY at 10:59
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