Monday, May 15, 2006

Ukraine attacks 'charlatan' and his booty-shaking babes

The Orthodox Church in Ukraine is not quite sure which part of Sunday Adelaja's weekly services it likes the least.

The dubious Russian pop and the pom-pom-waving Cossack dancers are certainly contenders. The hot babes in choir dress swaying to the music might win the vote of its many older and weaker-hearted clergymen.

Or it could be the thousands of Ukrainian teenagers squealing as the diminutive Nigerian pastor preaches the word of God.

Twelve years ago, his Embassy of God church consisted of seven fellow Africans who used to gather in his Kiev flat.

Today he heads one of the fastest-growing Christian congregations in Europe, with 250,000 members in Ukraine alone. Among them is the first Protestant mayor of Kiev, elected to the post in March.

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