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Pastor R.R. Soares ministering at Praise and Worship Event held in Goiania on October 15, 2011. |
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| Born | December 6, 1947 Muniz Freire, Espírito Santo, Brazil |
| Occupation | Televangelist, missionary, author, singer, businessman and composer |
Romildo Ribeiro Soares, also known as R. R. Soares (born December 6, 1947, in Muniz Freire, Espírito Santo), is a Brazilian televangelist, missionary, author, singer, businessman and composer. He decided to become a televangelist and supporter of faith healing in the late 1960s, after reading a book by T. L. Osborn. Related through marriage to another notable Brazilian preacher, Edir Macedo, he founded the International Church of God's Grace in 1980. This church is now among the largest Pentecostal denominations in Brazil. R. R. Soares averages about 100 hours on Brazilian television each week.
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At the age of eight, R. R. Soares was visiting a nearby town, Cachoeiro do Itapemirim, and in a shop in Jerônimo Monteiro square, he saw a television set for the first time. Soares noticed that people were fascinated with what was happening on the screen, and at that time he began to think about encouraging that type of fascination with God by one day preaching on television. In April 1964, Soares moved to Rio de Janeiro with his family and lived with his uncle Aderbal in São Gonçalo. The year 1968 would mark the beginning of Soares's ministry.
Soares had previously been promised a scholarship to study medicine at Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow, Russia; however, after reading the book Healing the Sick and Casting out Devils by T. L. Osborn, he felt the "pulse of God's call" for the ministry. He founded the International Church of God's Grace (Igreja Internacional da Graça de Deus), opening the first in 1980 in the city of Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro. He remains the church's leader to this day. He is married with Maria Magdalena and is the father of singer David Soares, deputy mayor André Soares and three other sons.
Soares hosts the program Faith Show on the networks Rede Bandeirantes and CNT during primetime and also on the RIT. It is also broadcast in the late dawns on Rede TV! He became the champion of appearances on TV ao have one total of 100 hours per week of programming in the national contract. But lost the leadership position for the leader of the World Church of the Power of God, Valdemiro Santiago de Oliveira, religious practices with longer exposure time in open TV in Brazil Currently. Embora married there 28 years with the sister of the current owner of the Rede Record, Magdalena, the relationship with Edir Macedo is earlier. First seen in 1968 at New Life, the two founded The Eternal Road Crusade seven years. In 1977, he created the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus). In May 2006, launched an evangelical pay-TV operator, you want to get a hundred thousand subscribers.
Currently, R. R. Soares has more than 900 churches throughout Brazil. He also has churches in Lisbon, Pompano Beach, FL, Miami, Orlando, FL, Brandon, FL, New Jersey, Corona, NY, Somerville, MA, Fall River, MA, in the United States and is planning a church in Paris, in France.
Note: The books presented below are translations from Portuguese into English.
Note: This section includes CDs with songs written by R. R. Soares.
Soares is the owner of the Graça Artes Gráficas and Editora Ltda, (acquired in 1983), Graça Music (a gospel record label), Grace Editorial (editor), and Graça Filmes (movies distributor). The RIT TV, Nossa Radio and Nossa TV belong to the International Church of God's Grace.
On September 10, 2008, Soares began a new system of evangelism: he began to send daily messages by e-mail to people registered on the site Ongrace, in order to evangelize and help people in need of God. He still continues with this system, with messages translated into English and other languages.