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Birthdate: October 6, 1946
Birthplace: Bunlo, Bocaue, Bulacan
Son of former Olympic sprinter Joaquin T. Villanueva and Maria Cruz Villanueva (both deceased)
Married to Adoracion Jose Villanueva with whom he has four children, namely Bocaue Mayor Eduardo J. Villanueva Jr., Citizen’s Battle Against Corruption (CIBAC) Congressional Rep. Emmanuel Joel J. Villanueva, Eleanor Villanueva-Tugna and Edelisha J. Villanueva
Education
Manager’s Course under the University of the Philippines (UP
Institute for Small Scale Industries, July 6 – Sept. 30, 1977
College of Law (under bar), UP Diliman, Quezon City
Bachelor of Science in Commerce, 1969
Major in Economics and Minor in Finance
Philippine College of Commerce (PCC), now known as
Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP)
High School, Meycauayan Institute (now known as Meycauayan College), Meycauayan, Bulacan (3rd-4th year); St. Mary’s Academy (now known as St. Mary’s College), Meycauayan, Bulacan (1st-2nd year)
Elementary, Bambang Elementary School, Bocaue, Bulacan
Special Courses
Integrated Bible Course
Harvestime International Institute, 1987-88
Morris Cerullo School of Evangelism
Philippine International Convention Center, 1984
Special Course at the Rhema Correspondence Bible Training Center
Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1983
The Basic and Advanced Bible Courses
Under Dr. E. W. Kenyon, 1970-80
The Complete Bible Course
Daoud Correspondence School, 1978
Dr. Billy Graham School of Evangelism
Philippine International Convention Center, 1977
Regular and Advanced Speech Courses
Speech Training Center (with Scholarship), 1970
Bro. Eduardo “Eddie” Villanueva is a spiritual leader, a model family man and a respected founder of the Jesus Is Lord Movement, the world’s fourth biggest independent Church.
He was born in Bocaue, Bulacan on Oct. 6, 1946.
He spent his elementary days in Bambang Elementary School in Bocaue, had his 1st 2years of high school in St. Mary’s Academy (now St. Mary’s College) in Meycauayan and finished it in Meycauayan Institute (now Meycauayan College).
In 1969, he graduated with a degree in Commerce, major in Economics, from the Philippine College of Commerce (PCC), now known as Polytechnic University of the Philippines. He was an active student leader and a consistent scholar in college. He took up law at the University of the Philippines but was sidelined by his activism and never had the time to take the bar.
His career began shortly after obtaining his college diploma. He worked as a full-time faculty member of the Economics and Finance Department of his alma mater until 1972. He then worked as the general manager of the Agape Trading Company. He returned to PUP in 1978 as part-time professor as he could not resist the lure of teaching.
But 1978 was an auspicious year for Bro. Eddie. It was when he put up the Jesus Is Lord Fellowship – which started with just fifteen student-members 25 years ago. In a quarter of a decade, the membership grew to some three million members nationwide, as well as those scattered in 33 countries abroad, and is now considered the largest evangelical church in the Philippines.
For his incessant efforts to spread the message of truth, justice and righteousness, Bro. Eddie has received a number of accolades from prestigious organizations and even his peers.
Among the citations he has thus far received, Bro. Eddie values his Gintong Ama (Golden Father) award for Socio-civic/Religious Sector given by the Golden Mother and Father Foundation in June 1996 and his being voted as the Pastor of the Year in a 1988 worldwide search conducted by Dr. George Otis’ High Adventure Ministries. The Ministries broadcasts its Voice of Hope Program in 72 countries.
He was ordained Minister of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ in 1979 by the California-based Victory in Christ Church and International Ministries, was conferred the Office of Episcopacy by the sectarian Body of Christ in the Philippines in April 1996.
In February 2001, Bro. Eddie also received the prestigious EDSA People Power Freedom Award for ZOE TV 11 for its fair coverage of the People Power 2.
In his career as spiritual leader and evangelist, Bro. Eddie has founded many entities that he uses to spread the word of God.
Aside from the Jesus Is Lord Church Worldwide, where he sits as spiritual director and international president, he also put up ZOE Broadcasting Network Inc., the owner and operator of channel 11.
Bro. Eddie hosts three ZOE programs, namely Diyos at Bayan, PJM (Philippines for Jesus Movement) Forum and Jesus The Healer. He also writes regular columns, God and Nation for People’s Tonight and Diyos at Bayan for People’s Taliba. Straight from the Word, his column at the Philippine Star, ran for nine years.
He is also the President of the Jesus Is Lord Colleges Foundation, Inc. which provides education to deserving students; national chairman of the Philippines for Jesus Movement and president of the Council of Christian Bishops of the Philippines.
A pacifist and an advocate of unity, he chairs the God’s People Coalition for Righteousness, a coalition of Catholics, Muslims, Protestants, Evangelical and Born Again Christians.
He likewise serves as a trustee of the International Bible Society and vice-chair of the Christ For Asia.
Bro. Eddie lives in Bocaue, Bulacan with his wife Adoracion Jose Villanueva.
Birthdate: October 6, 1946
Birthplace: Bunlo, Bocaue, Bulacan
Son of former Olympic sprinter Joaquin T. Villanueva and Maria Cruz Villanueva (both deceased)
Married to Adoracion Jose Villanueva with whom he has four children, namely Bocaue Mayor Eduardo J. Villanueva Jr., Citizen’s Battle Against Corruption (CIBAC) Congressional Rep. Emmanuel Joel J. Villanueva, Eleanor Villanueva-Tugna and Edelisha J. Villanueva
Education
Manager’s Course under the University of the Philippines (UP
Institute for Small Scale Industries, July 6 – Sept. 30, 1977
College of Law (under bar), UP Diliman, Quezon City
Bachelor of Science in Commerce, 1969
Major in Economics and Minor in Finance
Philippine College of Commerce (PCC), now known as
Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP)
High School, Meycauayan Institute (now known as Meycauayan College), Meycauayan, Bulacan (3rd-4th year); St. Mary’s Academy (now known as St. Mary’s College), Meycauayan, Bulacan (1st-2nd year)
Elementary, Bambang Elementary School, Bocaue, Bulacan
Special Courses
Integrated Bible Course
Harvestime International Institute, 1987-88
Morris Cerullo School of Evangelism
Philippine International Convention Center, 1984
Special Course at the Rhema Correspondence Bible Training Center
Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1983
The Basic and Advanced Bible Courses
Under Dr. E. W. Kenyon, 1970-80
The Complete Bible Course
Daoud Correspondence School, 1978
Dr. Billy Graham School of Evangelism
Philippine International Convention Center, 1977
Regular and Advanced Speech Courses
Speech Training Center (with Scholarship), 1970
Bro. Eduardo “Eddie” Villanueva is a spiritual leader, a model family man and a respected founder of the Jesus Is Lord Movement, the world’s fourth biggest independent Church.
He was born in Bocaue, Bulacan on Oct. 6, 1946.
He spent his elementary days in Bambang Elementary School in Bocaue, had his 1st 2years of high school in St. Mary’s Academy (now St. Mary’s College) in Meycauayan and finished it in Meycauayan Institute (now Meycauayan College).
In 1969, he graduated with a degree in Commerce, major in Economics, from the Philippine College of Commerce (PCC), now known as Polytechnic University of the Philippines. He was an active student leader and a consistent scholar in college. He took up law at the University of the Philippines but was sidelined by his activism and never had the time to take the bar.
His career began shortly after obtaining his college diploma. He worked as a full-time faculty member of the Economics and Finance Department of his alma mater until 1972. He then worked as the general manager of the Agape Trading Company. He returned to PUP in 1978 as part-time professor as he could not resist the lure of teaching.
But 1978 was an auspicious year for Bro. Eddie. It was when he put up the Jesus Is Lord Fellowship – which started with just fifteen student-members 25 years ago. In a quarter of a decade, the membership grew to some three million members nationwide, as well as those scattered in 33 countries abroad, and is now considered the largest evangelical church in the Philippines.
For his incessant efforts to spread the message of truth, justice and righteousness, Bro. Eddie has received a number of accolades from prestigious organizations and even his peers.
Among the citations he has thus far received, Bro. Eddie values his Gintong Ama (Golden Father) award for Socio-civic/Religious Sector given by the Golden Mother and Father Foundation in June 1996 and his being voted as the Pastor of the Year in a 1988 worldwide search conducted by Dr. George Otis’ High Adventure Ministries. The Ministries broadcasts its Voice of Hope Program in 72 countries.
He was ordained Minister of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ in 1979 by the California-based Victory in Christ Church and International Ministries, was conferred the Office of Episcopacy by the sectarian Body of Christ in the Philippines in April 1996.
In February 2001, Bro. Eddie also received the prestigious EDSA People Power Freedom Award for ZOE TV 11 for its fair coverage of the People Power 2.
In his career as spiritual leader and evangelist, Bro. Eddie has founded many entities that he uses to spread the word of God.
Aside from the Jesus Is Lord Church Worldwide, where he sits as spiritual director and international president, he also put up ZOE Broadcasting Network Inc., the owner and operator of channel 11.
Bro. Eddie hosts three ZOE programs, namely Diyos at Bayan, PJM (Philippines for Jesus Movement) Forum and Jesus The Healer. He also writes regular columns, God and Nation for People’s Tonight and Diyos at Bayan for People’s Taliba. Straight from the Word, his column at the Philippine Star, ran for nine years.
He is also the President of the Jesus Is Lord Colleges Foundation, Inc. which provides education to deserving students; national chairman of the Philippines for Jesus Movement and president of the Council of Christian Bishops of the Philippines.
A pacifist and an advocate of unity, he chairs the God’s People Coalition for Righteousness, a coalition of Catholics, Muslims, Protestants, Evangelical and Born Again Christians.
He likewise serves as a trustee of the International Bible Society and vice-chair of the Christ For Asia.
Bro. Eddie lives in Bocaue, Bulacan with his wife Adoracion Jose Villanueva.
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Eddie Villanueva for President
Tue, April 20, 2004 - 8:12 PM
The homestretch: impressions on the ‘presidentiables’
By Rick M. Abcede (ABS-CBN News !pril 21, 2004)
Bro. Eddie Villanueva
Everyone has their place in the sun. But the sun must shine brightest in Malacañang, for that is precisely where preacher Bro. Eddie now wants to be.
Out of some 82 million Filipinos, more than 90 percent of whom are Roman Catholic, Eddie Villanueva thinks he is the one anointed to lead the country onward to idyllic prosperity. He thinks he should be president of the land. He will not be.
His main asset is also his biggest liability: his being a religious leader. Filipinos are inclined to remain peaceably quiet about their sentiments toward people who confess a differing faith, but those sentiments are indeed there, though lying dormant, like silent rivers that run deep.
For better or for worse, his being a Protestant leader will be a red flag that will invite rejection from the vastly Catholic population. Bro. Eddie maybe the good person he trumpets himself to be, but he has spurned the Catholic faith -- and more than that, as a loud and aggressive proselytizer, is in fact drawing people away from that faith. He certainly is not up for a reward from the country’s teeming Catholics.
It may be countered that former President Fidel V. Ramos was also a Protestant. But in the case of FVR, religion played no prominent role in his candidacy. Not so with Bro. Eddie, who is embedded in religion, who pontificates on the rostrum of religion, who waves wildly the flag of religion.
Add to that the discomfort Filipinos feel about mixing religion and governance. If there is at least a hint of impropriety when a religious leader endorses a candidate, no doubt there is naked impudence when that religious leader himself runs for office.
Theocracy and democracy are as distant from each other as are the Middle Ages and modern times, and should be kept that way.
What kind of president might Bro. Eddie make? Reacting to the Supreme Court’s decision to temporarily allow rival Eddie Gil to continue campaigning, he says the High Court’s decision shows the handiwork of Malacañang, thereby maligning two branches of the government in one foul childish comment.
Recall that Bro. Eddie Villanueva’s motivation for petitioning the Comelec to disqualify Eddie Gil is that the latter is sporting the same first name as Villanueva does. Holy Moses! What would this preacher claim next for his exclusive use after his coronation day in the Palace? Not even the heedless Wilde Almeda of fond memory (remember his Basilan caper?) showed as much gall.
Panfilo Lacson
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Re: Eddie Villanueva for President
Thu, April 29, 2004 - 7:54 PMbasta ako, kay Bro.Eddie Villanueva parin ako!!!
Para Sa Dios at Bayan...
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