New Generation Church
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The New Generation Church is a Protestant Charismatic church based in Riga and affiliating over 200 Russian speaking sects amongst 15 nations (including USA).[citation needed]
It was started by senior Pastor Alexei Ledayev in Riga in 1989. The church and its affiliated churches were supported long time by Swedish Pentecostals and particularly by Ulf Ekman, pastor and apostle of Livets Ord Church in Uppsala, Sweden.
The New Generation Movement claims an apostolic mandate. The goal of the New Generation Movement is to be a mother-movement to a thousand of church and bring salvation through Alexey Ledyaev to a million of souls.
Contents |
[edit] Stance on homosexuality
The New Generation Church is associated with Latvia's "No Pride," anti-homosexual organization founded by a New Generation member in 2006 to protest the Gay Pride march in Riga. Through human right organisations regard it as hate group. New Generation's Pastor Ledayev wrote to the UK's The Guardian, "I believe that Christians and their traditional values are discriminated against today, and not the gays and lesbians." The Guardian goes on to note that he has been more explicit in his sermons: "God will bring evil upon them [homosexuals]! God will drive them out and they will fall!"[1] According to the Human rights organisation Southern Poverty Law Center, the anti-gay rhetoric by influential preachers like Ledyaev may have contributed to violence by Eastern Slavic Christians such as the ones responsible in the fatal attack on Satender Singh.[2]
