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The language in this is likely confusing. I translated it from Portuguese, in a Portuguese Wiki article, to Babelized English. Then I tried to translate from Babelized English to standard. Some things in it may seem confusingly worded. Still this is quite possibly one of the world's largest new religions and they do have temples in the US so it seemed an appropriate topic. I just hope someone who knows about it can fix any unintended, and possibly offensive, mistranslations I made.-- T. Anthony 11:46, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
I am a native Portuguese speaker, and have spent a good time correcting the article in its syntax/ortographic flaws, while at the same time attempting to retain the original meaning. Hopefully things are a bit clearer now.
I have replaced all references to IURD, the Church is now called UCKG. This is an article in English, is it not? Why not use English language initials?
NOTE: I have not worked on the following sections: "Ecclesiastical Organization", "Controversies", "Tithe", "Disputes with Other Beliefs", "Evangelical Churches". I may do it at a later time though.
I'm the same native Portuguese speaker that posted here before. I have now edited the rest of the page. In its entirety the article is much more readable. Maybe the "clean-up" tag is not necessary anymore. Any thoughts?
I made several updates to the article. For example, I included reports from the UK Charity Commission and articles on the Climbié case. -- Prophet of Justice 22:54, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
The restored version of the article is based on verifiable information from other websites. -- Prophet of Justice 00:18, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
There video in here http://youtube.com/watch?v=zeCG7buyn4o is a famous old video from Rede Globo showing Edir Macedo counting money, telling the other bishops how to gather money. This was an era when Globo attacked the UCKG very heavily. Should we mention it? 200.222.3.3 14:47, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
The Spanish article on this is much much better. This one was clearly written or edited by members of this cult. This should be replaced with a translation of the es.wikipedia version. BTW, does anyone know why the symbols of this church appear to be a menorah and star of david, and why the videos they sell (I looked in one of their churches in Buenos Aires) are all about Old Testament figures with a Founding of Israel connection? 201.250.37.241 20:57, 11 May 2007 (UTC)Just Visiting in Buenos Aires
A Brazilian judge has accepted prosecutors' claims that the founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and other nine leaders took advantage of their position to commit fraud against the church and its followers. Prosecutors accuse Bishop Edir Macedo and other leaders church leaders of laundering more than $2 billion in donations from 2003 to 2008. Wildstone ( talk) 01:24, 16 August 2009 (UTC) Reference: KIIITV News Aug 12, 2009
I just made a small grammar correction in the kick of the saint controversy section but tried to enter a carriage return in the edit sumary box which had the result of making my edit without a proper summary. Just to let anyone following his article know and to save them wasting time over a minor edit. EFlower ( talk) 09:51, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
The Edir Macedo entry claims that he has a doctorate in Theology, while this entry claims that he has no formal theological training. Neither are referenced. Does anyone know which is accurate? Or does anyone have some more information on the "Faculdade de Educação Teológica do estado de São Paulo"? Jmdoran ( talk) 16:56, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
This article appears rather biased towards the church and except for the Victoria Climbié case, it does not mention the many controversies the church has been involved in, such as being banned from Belgium. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.174.11.117 ( talk) 02:21, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
This stuff was again removed, but I've placed some of it back.-- T. Anthony ( talk) 09:58, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
This article is very short on references, and many statements should be removed unless they can be supplied. DJ Clayworth ( talk) 14:58, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
The UCKG has been havily criticised. I think an article with neutral point of view can not ommit it. I am going to put one by one the points that User:Luizdl has arbitrarily reverted, and I want him to explain why each of them are not encyclopaedic or why should the be omitted from the article.
Each of those facts is properly cited from a reliable source. Argentino ( talk/ cont.) 21:20, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
Please, take it ease, think what you would do if someone goes to the Catholic Church article and start to say that many priests are pedophiles, there are many facts and sources for argue that, but that surely would be taken as discrimination, think about it and about what you did. Luizdl ( talk) 00:55, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
This church apparently has tens of thousands of members who donate an enormous amount of money. The article, however, contains more criticism than information. There must be some reason why so many people belong. It would be nice if the article contained som hint of what people apparently find positive here. AMuseo ( talk) 01:17, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
Why is the article listing controversial non proved accusations, and yout do not take account of 15 000 000 of believers in Brazil, estimated 25 000 000 of believers in the world, who assist twice to four times a week to UCKG in each country? Can keep growing during 34 years, at this rate, an organization that is lying and stealing money? 4 or 5 cases can make a case in an enciclopaedia? What about millions of beneficiaries?
And, I tell you, I believed manifestating devil was staging, until I manifestate and I was liberated of an illness.
I reclame more neutrality and respect.
And living in Argentina, I can assure yout that Church has a very gook health here (estimated 600 000 believers). "Olive oil scandal" was only a manouver from a yellow-press tv show and all believers of UCKG know that oil in consagration is minimum olive oil from Israel maximum common oil, Pastor explain it all time. And the do NOT sell oil, neither roses, nothing at all. All offers are VOLUNTEER.-- 190.191.196.235 ( talk) 02:56, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
I was born in from South America, I speak Spanish and Portuguese, therefore I'm able to read first hand news about this issue. I'm going to talk you about the consensus at the Spanish Wikipedia edited by people like me. According to them, this church is a well known sect, charlatans that promotes the use of alleged magic objects, supposedly brought from Israel (or in reality, not brought, but bought at the corner shop), not just oil but at least 10 trinkets and knickknacks that supposedly can heal incurable diseases [1]. Please check out the Spanish version of this article (or ask a friend to translate it for you) to find out fist hand information about these cheaters. There's a list of magic objects used on the sect TV shows (which also includes e.g. alleged exorcisms and magic cures of diseases with the magic trinkets). It is off course all referenced there. I will translate some for you: "holy water from the Jordan river", "blessed holy oil from the Getsemaní garden", "shreds of the sacred Shroud", "holy handkerchiefs from sacred land" (supposedly blessed in Israel), and the list goes on.-- 78.105.93.129 ( talk) 05:12, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
"That people can be sanctified (become holy) during their lifetime."
Please note the source of the church claiming sanctification of followers;otherwise I suggest removing this bullet point -- MightySaiyan ( talk) 19:03, 9 March 2013 (UTC)— Preceding unsigned comment added by MightySaiyan ( talk • contribs) 18:57, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
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I fail to see the point of ncluding this section. yes, the name of the church is cted a number of times, but there is very little connection. It would be like citing that the parents of the child worked at Walmart, that they used to take the child to Walmart and that a Walmart manager was the one to call the taxi that took her to hospital. So what?
It would suffice to say that the child would have gone some ritual to cast out spirits. Full stop. Not a leeeeeeenthy paragraph that makes the reader presume that there is an important point to it all coming further down, only to get to the end of it and at the end ask the question: "So"? or "So f... what?". Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 14:18, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
All the people whose job it is to look after the wellbeing of children did NOTHING; the church priest suggested the girl be taken to hospital and called a taxi. And yet you feel that the UCKG is responsible for the death? Weird strange logic, you display. But then, looking at what you have done on this page, I guess that impartial, unbiased and fair are not words that you live by. And by the way, I detest the UCKG - I find it a repugnant institution. But above that, I stand for telling an unbiased story, unlike you. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 01:38, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
Regarding changes to the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) article, most recently by User:Clarkxwayne: these changes typically consist of deletion of great amounts of sourced text, and replacement by text of promotional style, much of which has been copied verbatim from UCKG sites. ( This (click) is one of several examples). Both deletion of sourced material and inclusion of promotional material from sources associated with the subject are entirely inappropriate and violate Wikipedia policies and guidelines; please do not do these things. To start with, it would be useful to read guidelines WP:COI and WP:NOTADVOCATE, and policies WP:NPOV and WP:EDIT. Pol098 ( talk) 12:20, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
FYI - Clarkxwayne recently created Uckg universal church of the kingdom of god, a copy of this version. I left a note on their talk page that this is not the way to solve any issues they may have with this article. APK whisper in my ear 12:33, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
There have been comments that the article contains much criticism of the UCKG. But, while people complain about the (sourced) negative, nobody seems to be making any attempt to add actual information, from sources independent of the UCKG, on good results it has achieved. As an example of the sort of information needed, here is a quote from another article:
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake: The foundation made total grant donations of US$3 million to various charities to help with the aid effort for victims of the earthquake. These charities include: Save the Children ... [references]
[Inserted later] I have added a section, Activities/Humanitarian, for such information, and started it off with blood donation encouragement. Pol098 ( talk) 22:28, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
A generally unacceptable POV revision which deleted huge swathes of text also included some material which could be appropriate, though not in its original form.
Social Works
The UCKG Help Centre is working to make a difference in the life of people living in precarious areas all around the world
- Medical Advice (Nurses who are volunteers of the project will provide vital information to all those who will be present at the event about the following: High Blood Pressure, HIV, TB, Malaria and the like) HIV Brochures and condoms will be distributed (to those who want) to raise awareness against this disease and special counselling will be offered to those who are already suffering with it or have family members infected with the virus.
- Distribution of School Material to kids between the age of 7 to 12 years old
- Food distribution to all present at the event [1]
- A total clean up operation at the community chosen for the event as part of our KEEP IT CLEAN initiative with the aim to motivate the people living in the community to come together to keep it always clean.
- Free hair cut to every one interested. [2]
- Spiritual Counselling to all those who are in needy of an spiritual guidance in life
- Special seminars for those who are suffering from addiction [3]
This would need independent references and some quantification; for example "Food Donations" are listed on a UCKG site without detail; we'd need an independent source, value of the donations, any conditions attached (including attendance at meetings), etc.; I've been at lots of meetings where I was given a sandwich and cup of coffee. The UCKG information could be included it it's made clear where it's from (e.g. "UCKG India say on their Facebook page that they provide free haircuts to those attending their meetings", not "UCKG give free hair cut to everyone interested"). Spiritual counselling and even treatment for addiction sound as if they may not be entirely altruistic, and need opinions other than UCKG. Particularly needed are examples of unconditional strings-free humanitarianism (like the simple donation of money to help tsunami victims by another organisation, quoted above). Pol098 ( talk) 13:39, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
Me again. I've been looking for independent favourable material on UCKG (e.g. following the "Medical Advice" entry in the text box above, I Googled "uckg medical advice -inurl:uckg", excluding sites with uckg in the URL), but not getting very far. For example the first hit for medical advice (potentially a useful contribution to the community) is an independent document that says "The UCKG are stll pushing their courses, advice sessions and helplines, claiming that whatever your problem is you can sort it out by going to them and praying." Other search results not originating from UCKG do not describe anything beneficial. Maybe we should highlight the free haircuts?
The following (from above source) maybe explains the difficulty in finding significant humanitarian achievements: "A separate examination of the finances of the British branch concluded: “The church’s reserves rose ... [by 2001 to] £6,333,000. Under charitable expenditure there is no mention of any spending on schemes for helping the homeless and drug addicts, which they claim are a major part of their work. They do make donations, but all of them, bar £33 go to ‘sister churches’ abroad. By March 1999 they were in a position to send £900,000 straight back to Brazil. Last year nearly £2.6 million was sent abroad.”" Pol098 ( talk) 17:36, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
Some text has recently been deleted with the edit comment See Godwin's law; why are we giving these people the time of day? All religions see their opponents as drastically wrong, UCKG apparently just doing it more forthrightly
A UN report published in 2009 by Brazil's Committee Against Religious Intolerance (CCIR) stated that Pentecostal churches in general, and the UCKG in particular, was harassing and attacking, sometimes violently, people of other faiths and spreading religious intolerance. The UCKG was "demonizing" especially Afro-Brazilian syncretic religions such as Umbanda and Candomblé; " Jews are portrayed as 'the killers of Christ', Catholics as 'devil worshippers', traditional Protestants as 'false Christians' and Muslims as 'demonic'", the report said. spiritists were also reported to have been the subject of attacks. The UN Committee is made up of the leaders of 18 religious and human rights groups. The committee's chairman said "Fascism and Nazism started this way, from demonizing other groups" [1]<
- ^ Frayssinet, Fabiana (3 July 2009). "RELIGION-BRAZIL: Intolerance Denounced At UN". Interpress Service.
I don't think that this can be dismissed as "seeing their opponents as drastically wrong"; the source, totally respectable, speaks clearly not of rubbishing ideas, but of demoniasation, harrassment, attacks—physical aggression, not words—on other religions, accusations of "killers of Christ" (a criminal offence in many countries), "demons". “Fascism and Nazism started out this way, by demonising different groups" was said by the chairman of the CCIR. "Ialorixá Gilda died of a massive heart attack in 1999 after members of a pentecostal church swarmed into her temple and hit her over the head with a Bible" (copied from the cited source) is too forthrightly critical of religious opponents, and is notable.
In summary, I think that this material, maybe worded differently, maybe expanded, belongs in the article as it's from a source both reliable and respectable, and because it documents unacceptable aggression against other religions, not merely the usual "we are right and everybody else is wrong".
While I'm commenting, I'll repeat what I've said before: there is a strong tendency to delete material from this article; earlier edits have clearly been abusive in this respect, recent ones less so. Instead of deleting unfavourable material, it would be useful to add text that shows the UCKG in a good light. I've found and added a little, but haven't been able to source much. Pol098 ( talk) 20:52, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
An editor recently added an edit request to the article page, from where it was, correctly, removed. As the editor has made an effort to follow Wikipedia procedures, although not in the right place, I've added the edit request here, on unsolicited behalf of the user and not a request from me. The request was accompanied by deletion (since reinstated) of the following text from the introduction, sourced in the article body:
The Church has frequently been accused of illegal activities and corruption, including money laundering, charlatanism, and witchcraft, and intolerance towards other religions. It has been subject to bans in several African counties, and was implicated in the murder in Britain of Victoria Climbié, only prayed for rather than protected and treated. There have been accusations that the Church extracts money from poor members for the benefit of its leaders.
The edit request, comment, and signature:
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User:Theuniversalchurch ( talk), had previously made the same deletion and might be associated with this request, but I have not communicated.
[This comment added by Pol098 ( talk) 15:47, 3 February 2017 (UTC)]
I would object to the terminology "implicated in the murder", as nothing seems to present the Church as having had an active role in this. Everything seems to indicate that they failed to realize the nature of the problem and/or failed to act on the child's behalf. The grammar of the sentence is also lacking, in that the clause "only prayed for rather than protected and treated" is not properly linked to the rest of the sentence.-- Khajidha ( talk) 15:44, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
My adding of a link to prosperity theology within the "From 1989" section has now been twice deleted. In the last instance, the user who undid my edit, Pol098, claimed the deletion was due to overlinking.
"Prosperity theology" is, indeed, linked twice within the article already. However, the first instance is within an infobox and the second instance is in the "Docrtines" section. While contextually more adequate for a link, this section comes far after "From 1989" in the article's body.
Shouldn't the link, regardless of coherence with the sections within which they're contained, be provided at the first instance where the term/expression is mentioned in the article body's text? Denis Mattos (Talk) (Contributions) 09:28, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
The lede contains a list of negative points/ accusations and needs to be more balanced. I would have a go at it myself but this really isn't my AoE. Also I'm Catholic and may bring some of my own bias to the article. Tigerboy1966 08:49, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
I repeat a call I made long ago: editors who support the UCKG often delete sourced criticism. Could I repeat my request instead to post positive material, particularly about charitable works and benefits, with independent sources? There is much comment about the money the UCKG receives, but virtually nothing about how it is spent to benefit people (rather than to cover church expenses). It is registered as a charity in the UK and, I expect, other places; please specify charitable work that is done. Best wishes, Pol098 ( talk) 13:07, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
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The language in this is likely confusing. I translated it from Portuguese, in a Portuguese Wiki article, to Babelized English. Then I tried to translate from Babelized English to standard. Some things in it may seem confusingly worded. Still this is quite possibly one of the world's largest new religions and they do have temples in the US so it seemed an appropriate topic. I just hope someone who knows about it can fix any unintended, and possibly offensive, mistranslations I made.-- T. Anthony 11:46, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
I am a native Portuguese speaker, and have spent a good time correcting the article in its syntax/ortographic flaws, while at the same time attempting to retain the original meaning. Hopefully things are a bit clearer now.
I have replaced all references to IURD, the Church is now called UCKG. This is an article in English, is it not? Why not use English language initials?
NOTE: I have not worked on the following sections: "Ecclesiastical Organization", "Controversies", "Tithe", "Disputes with Other Beliefs", "Evangelical Churches". I may do it at a later time though.
I'm the same native Portuguese speaker that posted here before. I have now edited the rest of the page. In its entirety the article is much more readable. Maybe the "clean-up" tag is not necessary anymore. Any thoughts?
I made several updates to the article. For example, I included reports from the UK Charity Commission and articles on the Climbié case. -- Prophet of Justice 22:54, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
The restored version of the article is based on verifiable information from other websites. -- Prophet of Justice 00:18, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
There video in here http://youtube.com/watch?v=zeCG7buyn4o is a famous old video from Rede Globo showing Edir Macedo counting money, telling the other bishops how to gather money. This was an era when Globo attacked the UCKG very heavily. Should we mention it? 200.222.3.3 14:47, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
The Spanish article on this is much much better. This one was clearly written or edited by members of this cult. This should be replaced with a translation of the es.wikipedia version. BTW, does anyone know why the symbols of this church appear to be a menorah and star of david, and why the videos they sell (I looked in one of their churches in Buenos Aires) are all about Old Testament figures with a Founding of Israel connection? 201.250.37.241 20:57, 11 May 2007 (UTC)Just Visiting in Buenos Aires
A Brazilian judge has accepted prosecutors' claims that the founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God and other nine leaders took advantage of their position to commit fraud against the church and its followers. Prosecutors accuse Bishop Edir Macedo and other leaders church leaders of laundering more than $2 billion in donations from 2003 to 2008. Wildstone ( talk) 01:24, 16 August 2009 (UTC) Reference: KIIITV News Aug 12, 2009
I just made a small grammar correction in the kick of the saint controversy section but tried to enter a carriage return in the edit sumary box which had the result of making my edit without a proper summary. Just to let anyone following his article know and to save them wasting time over a minor edit. EFlower ( talk) 09:51, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
The Edir Macedo entry claims that he has a doctorate in Theology, while this entry claims that he has no formal theological training. Neither are referenced. Does anyone know which is accurate? Or does anyone have some more information on the "Faculdade de Educação Teológica do estado de São Paulo"? Jmdoran ( talk) 16:56, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
This article appears rather biased towards the church and except for the Victoria Climbié case, it does not mention the many controversies the church has been involved in, such as being banned from Belgium. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.174.11.117 ( talk) 02:21, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
This stuff was again removed, but I've placed some of it back.-- T. Anthony ( talk) 09:58, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
This article is very short on references, and many statements should be removed unless they can be supplied. DJ Clayworth ( talk) 14:58, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
The UCKG has been havily criticised. I think an article with neutral point of view can not ommit it. I am going to put one by one the points that User:Luizdl has arbitrarily reverted, and I want him to explain why each of them are not encyclopaedic or why should the be omitted from the article.
Each of those facts is properly cited from a reliable source. Argentino ( talk/ cont.) 21:20, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
Please, take it ease, think what you would do if someone goes to the Catholic Church article and start to say that many priests are pedophiles, there are many facts and sources for argue that, but that surely would be taken as discrimination, think about it and about what you did. Luizdl ( talk) 00:55, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
This church apparently has tens of thousands of members who donate an enormous amount of money. The article, however, contains more criticism than information. There must be some reason why so many people belong. It would be nice if the article contained som hint of what people apparently find positive here. AMuseo ( talk) 01:17, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
Why is the article listing controversial non proved accusations, and yout do not take account of 15 000 000 of believers in Brazil, estimated 25 000 000 of believers in the world, who assist twice to four times a week to UCKG in each country? Can keep growing during 34 years, at this rate, an organization that is lying and stealing money? 4 or 5 cases can make a case in an enciclopaedia? What about millions of beneficiaries?
And, I tell you, I believed manifestating devil was staging, until I manifestate and I was liberated of an illness.
I reclame more neutrality and respect.
And living in Argentina, I can assure yout that Church has a very gook health here (estimated 600 000 believers). "Olive oil scandal" was only a manouver from a yellow-press tv show and all believers of UCKG know that oil in consagration is minimum olive oil from Israel maximum common oil, Pastor explain it all time. And the do NOT sell oil, neither roses, nothing at all. All offers are VOLUNTEER.-- 190.191.196.235 ( talk) 02:56, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
I was born in from South America, I speak Spanish and Portuguese, therefore I'm able to read first hand news about this issue. I'm going to talk you about the consensus at the Spanish Wikipedia edited by people like me. According to them, this church is a well known sect, charlatans that promotes the use of alleged magic objects, supposedly brought from Israel (or in reality, not brought, but bought at the corner shop), not just oil but at least 10 trinkets and knickknacks that supposedly can heal incurable diseases [1]. Please check out the Spanish version of this article (or ask a friend to translate it for you) to find out fist hand information about these cheaters. There's a list of magic objects used on the sect TV shows (which also includes e.g. alleged exorcisms and magic cures of diseases with the magic trinkets). It is off course all referenced there. I will translate some for you: "holy water from the Jordan river", "blessed holy oil from the Getsemaní garden", "shreds of the sacred Shroud", "holy handkerchiefs from sacred land" (supposedly blessed in Israel), and the list goes on.-- 78.105.93.129 ( talk) 05:12, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
"That people can be sanctified (become holy) during their lifetime."
Please note the source of the church claiming sanctification of followers;otherwise I suggest removing this bullet point -- MightySaiyan ( talk) 19:03, 9 March 2013 (UTC)— Preceding unsigned comment added by MightySaiyan ( talk • contribs) 18:57, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
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I fail to see the point of ncluding this section. yes, the name of the church is cted a number of times, but there is very little connection. It would be like citing that the parents of the child worked at Walmart, that they used to take the child to Walmart and that a Walmart manager was the one to call the taxi that took her to hospital. So what?
It would suffice to say that the child would have gone some ritual to cast out spirits. Full stop. Not a leeeeeeenthy paragraph that makes the reader presume that there is an important point to it all coming further down, only to get to the end of it and at the end ask the question: "So"? or "So f... what?". Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 14:18, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
All the people whose job it is to look after the wellbeing of children did NOTHING; the church priest suggested the girl be taken to hospital and called a taxi. And yet you feel that the UCKG is responsible for the death? Weird strange logic, you display. But then, looking at what you have done on this page, I guess that impartial, unbiased and fair are not words that you live by. And by the way, I detest the UCKG - I find it a repugnant institution. But above that, I stand for telling an unbiased story, unlike you. Rui ''Gabriel'' Correia ( talk) 01:38, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
Regarding changes to the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) article, most recently by User:Clarkxwayne: these changes typically consist of deletion of great amounts of sourced text, and replacement by text of promotional style, much of which has been copied verbatim from UCKG sites. ( This (click) is one of several examples). Both deletion of sourced material and inclusion of promotional material from sources associated with the subject are entirely inappropriate and violate Wikipedia policies and guidelines; please do not do these things. To start with, it would be useful to read guidelines WP:COI and WP:NOTADVOCATE, and policies WP:NPOV and WP:EDIT. Pol098 ( talk) 12:20, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
FYI - Clarkxwayne recently created Uckg universal church of the kingdom of god, a copy of this version. I left a note on their talk page that this is not the way to solve any issues they may have with this article. APK whisper in my ear 12:33, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
There have been comments that the article contains much criticism of the UCKG. But, while people complain about the (sourced) negative, nobody seems to be making any attempt to add actual information, from sources independent of the UCKG, on good results it has achieved. As an example of the sort of information needed, here is a quote from another article:
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake: The foundation made total grant donations of US$3 million to various charities to help with the aid effort for victims of the earthquake. These charities include: Save the Children ... [references]
[Inserted later] I have added a section, Activities/Humanitarian, for such information, and started it off with blood donation encouragement. Pol098 ( talk) 22:28, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
A generally unacceptable POV revision which deleted huge swathes of text also included some material which could be appropriate, though not in its original form.
Social Works
The UCKG Help Centre is working to make a difference in the life of people living in precarious areas all around the world
- Medical Advice (Nurses who are volunteers of the project will provide vital information to all those who will be present at the event about the following: High Blood Pressure, HIV, TB, Malaria and the like) HIV Brochures and condoms will be distributed (to those who want) to raise awareness against this disease and special counselling will be offered to those who are already suffering with it or have family members infected with the virus.
- Distribution of School Material to kids between the age of 7 to 12 years old
- Food distribution to all present at the event [1]
- A total clean up operation at the community chosen for the event as part of our KEEP IT CLEAN initiative with the aim to motivate the people living in the community to come together to keep it always clean.
- Free hair cut to every one interested. [2]
- Spiritual Counselling to all those who are in needy of an spiritual guidance in life
- Special seminars for those who are suffering from addiction [3]
This would need independent references and some quantification; for example "Food Donations" are listed on a UCKG site without detail; we'd need an independent source, value of the donations, any conditions attached (including attendance at meetings), etc.; I've been at lots of meetings where I was given a sandwich and cup of coffee. The UCKG information could be included it it's made clear where it's from (e.g. "UCKG India say on their Facebook page that they provide free haircuts to those attending their meetings", not "UCKG give free hair cut to everyone interested"). Spiritual counselling and even treatment for addiction sound as if they may not be entirely altruistic, and need opinions other than UCKG. Particularly needed are examples of unconditional strings-free humanitarianism (like the simple donation of money to help tsunami victims by another organisation, quoted above). Pol098 ( talk) 13:39, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
Me again. I've been looking for independent favourable material on UCKG (e.g. following the "Medical Advice" entry in the text box above, I Googled "uckg medical advice -inurl:uckg", excluding sites with uckg in the URL), but not getting very far. For example the first hit for medical advice (potentially a useful contribution to the community) is an independent document that says "The UCKG are stll pushing their courses, advice sessions and helplines, claiming that whatever your problem is you can sort it out by going to them and praying." Other search results not originating from UCKG do not describe anything beneficial. Maybe we should highlight the free haircuts?
The following (from above source) maybe explains the difficulty in finding significant humanitarian achievements: "A separate examination of the finances of the British branch concluded: “The church’s reserves rose ... [by 2001 to] £6,333,000. Under charitable expenditure there is no mention of any spending on schemes for helping the homeless and drug addicts, which they claim are a major part of their work. They do make donations, but all of them, bar £33 go to ‘sister churches’ abroad. By March 1999 they were in a position to send £900,000 straight back to Brazil. Last year nearly £2.6 million was sent abroad.”" Pol098 ( talk) 17:36, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
Some text has recently been deleted with the edit comment See Godwin's law; why are we giving these people the time of day? All religions see their opponents as drastically wrong, UCKG apparently just doing it more forthrightly
A UN report published in 2009 by Brazil's Committee Against Religious Intolerance (CCIR) stated that Pentecostal churches in general, and the UCKG in particular, was harassing and attacking, sometimes violently, people of other faiths and spreading religious intolerance. The UCKG was "demonizing" especially Afro-Brazilian syncretic religions such as Umbanda and Candomblé; " Jews are portrayed as 'the killers of Christ', Catholics as 'devil worshippers', traditional Protestants as 'false Christians' and Muslims as 'demonic'", the report said. spiritists were also reported to have been the subject of attacks. The UN Committee is made up of the leaders of 18 religious and human rights groups. The committee's chairman said "Fascism and Nazism started this way, from demonizing other groups" [1]<
- ^ Frayssinet, Fabiana (3 July 2009). "RELIGION-BRAZIL: Intolerance Denounced At UN". Interpress Service.
I don't think that this can be dismissed as "seeing their opponents as drastically wrong"; the source, totally respectable, speaks clearly not of rubbishing ideas, but of demoniasation, harrassment, attacks—physical aggression, not words—on other religions, accusations of "killers of Christ" (a criminal offence in many countries), "demons". “Fascism and Nazism started out this way, by demonising different groups" was said by the chairman of the CCIR. "Ialorixá Gilda died of a massive heart attack in 1999 after members of a pentecostal church swarmed into her temple and hit her over the head with a Bible" (copied from the cited source) is too forthrightly critical of religious opponents, and is notable.
In summary, I think that this material, maybe worded differently, maybe expanded, belongs in the article as it's from a source both reliable and respectable, and because it documents unacceptable aggression against other religions, not merely the usual "we are right and everybody else is wrong".
While I'm commenting, I'll repeat what I've said before: there is a strong tendency to delete material from this article; earlier edits have clearly been abusive in this respect, recent ones less so. Instead of deleting unfavourable material, it would be useful to add text that shows the UCKG in a good light. I've found and added a little, but haven't been able to source much. Pol098 ( talk) 20:52, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
An editor recently added an edit request to the article page, from where it was, correctly, removed. As the editor has made an effort to follow Wikipedia procedures, although not in the right place, I've added the edit request here, on unsolicited behalf of the user and not a request from me. The request was accompanied by deletion (since reinstated) of the following text from the introduction, sourced in the article body:
The Church has frequently been accused of illegal activities and corruption, including money laundering, charlatanism, and witchcraft, and intolerance towards other religions. It has been subject to bans in several African counties, and was implicated in the murder in Britain of Victoria Climbié, only prayed for rather than protected and treated. There have been accusations that the Church extracts money from poor members for the benefit of its leaders.
The edit request, comment, and signature:
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest was declined. [see below] |
User:Theuniversalchurch ( talk), had previously made the same deletion and might be associated with this request, but I have not communicated.
[This comment added by Pol098 ( talk) 15:47, 3 February 2017 (UTC)]
I would object to the terminology "implicated in the murder", as nothing seems to present the Church as having had an active role in this. Everything seems to indicate that they failed to realize the nature of the problem and/or failed to act on the child's behalf. The grammar of the sentence is also lacking, in that the clause "only prayed for rather than protected and treated" is not properly linked to the rest of the sentence.-- Khajidha ( talk) 15:44, 16 February 2017 (UTC)
My adding of a link to prosperity theology within the "From 1989" section has now been twice deleted. In the last instance, the user who undid my edit, Pol098, claimed the deletion was due to overlinking.
"Prosperity theology" is, indeed, linked twice within the article already. However, the first instance is within an infobox and the second instance is in the "Docrtines" section. While contextually more adequate for a link, this section comes far after "From 1989" in the article's body.
Shouldn't the link, regardless of coherence with the sections within which they're contained, be provided at the first instance where the term/expression is mentioned in the article body's text? Denis Mattos (Talk) (Contributions) 09:28, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
The lede contains a list of negative points/ accusations and needs to be more balanced. I would have a go at it myself but this really isn't my AoE. Also I'm Catholic and may bring some of my own bias to the article. Tigerboy1966 08:49, 27 December 2017 (UTC)
I repeat a call I made long ago: editors who support the UCKG often delete sourced criticism. Could I repeat my request instead to post positive material, particularly about charitable works and benefits, with independent sources? There is much comment about the money the UCKG receives, but virtually nothing about how it is spent to benefit people (rather than to cover church expenses). It is registered as a charity in the UK and, I expect, other places; please specify charitable work that is done. Best wishes, Pol098 ( talk) 13:07, 2 August 2023 (UTC)