He is the nephew of Edir Macedo, who runs the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, a large network of Pentecostal churches.
For Kook, the Kingdom of God was being established in Biblical Israel through the firepower of the I.
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in Brazil, which was only created in 1977, has more than 2m members today.
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God was founded in Brazil in 1977 and has since expanded to more than 100 countries around the globe, according to its website.
Its members include Fernando Collor, a former president who resigned in 1992 while facing impeachment for corruption, and Marcelo Crivella, a bishop in the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, a Pentecostal outfit.
The deadly crush at the gates of the Cidadela Desportiva stadium, in Angola's capital, Luanda, came Monday evening as tens of thousands of people flocked to an event staged by the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God.
The United States had been founded by descendants of emigrants from Protestant Britain and Holland who viewed their new land as a "city on a hill" that would initiate the "new Israel" and the Kingdom of God on Earth.
Today let us all find resolution and peace as we give Vicky her Christian service and burial in order that you can then move on in your lives, knowing that one day you will see Vicky again in God's eternal kingdom of love.
Born in what is now North Korea in 1920, Moon claimed that God had chosen him to establish the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.
Some authors focus on the movement's leader a case in point being Jonathan Spence's learned yet accessible "God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan" (1996).
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