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El Shaddai (movement)
Catholic religious movement based in the Philippines
This article is about the Catholic charismatic movement. For other uses, see El Shaddai (disambiguation).
El Shaddai DWXI Prayer Partners Fellowship International, popularly known as El Shaddai, אֵל שַׁדַּי (Hebrew for 'God Almighty', IPA:[elʃaˈdːaj], which is one of the names of God in the Jewish faith) is the biggest Catholic charismatic movement in the Philippines.[1][2] The movement is led by Mike Velarde, a real estate developer and preacher. Novaliches bishop emeritus Teodoro Bacani Jr. serves as its spiritual adviser.
History
El Shaddai was established in 1984 by Mike Velarde, a businessman and real estate developer. Inspired by his heart surgery recovery in 1978, He started a weekly Bible-quoting radio show on DWXI, a station he acquired in 1981 as part of a real estate deal. Listeners, he says, began reporting that his voice had cured their afflictions.[3] Velarde called his show "El Shaddai," a biblical name for God that he found in an Am
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Filipino television evangelistTemplate:SHORTDESC:Filipino television evangelist
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Template:Philippine nameTemplate:Multiple issuesTemplate:Use Philippine EnglishTemplate:DMCATemplate:Infobox religious biographyMariano Zuniega Velarde (born August 20, 1939), better known as Brother Mike Velarde, is the founder and "Servant Leader" of a Philippines-based Catholic charismatic movement called El Shaddai which has estimated following of three to seven million. He is a famous televangelist in the Philippines.[1]
He is also the owner of Amvel Land Development Corporation, a real estate company, and Delta Broadcasting System.
Personal life[]
Bro. Mike is married to Avelina "Belen" del Monte[2] and they have four children:[citation needed] Franklin, Rene, Sherry and Michael. Velarde's son Rene Velarde, representing the Buhay party-list, is the richest party-list congressman with a net worth of P30.9 million.[3] His son, Franklin is an investor in the PuyatTemplate:Who? controlled Manila Bank (total assets of P7.57 billion).& Every Saturday evening in Manila, Philippines, on a huge plot of land near the airport, “Brother Mike” Velarde, a married, lay, Filipino real estate baron and “servant leader,” draws vast crowds of believers for a weekly El Shaddai prayer service. Founded by Velarde in 1981, El Shaddai, which claims 9 million members in the Philippines — more than 10% of the country’s Catholic population — and 2 million more among the expatriate Filipino community, is undoubtedly the largest lay Catholic organization in the world.1 In its worship, theology, and aesthetic, El Shaddai often seems more like the Filipino version of an American Evangelical Protestant mega church than a traditional Catholic lay organization, and Velarde often looks and talks more like a Pentecostalist preacher and businessman than a Catholic lay leader. Nonetheless, the movement is linked to — and approved by — the Catholic Church, though not all of its worshippers are Catholic. These services, well organized rallies that last four hours, are
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El Shaddai and the charismatic transformation of Philippine Catholicism
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