Jan 18, 2020 Kanye West will be featured as the headliner of Awaken 2020, a 10-hour-long prayer rally in Arizona, which is being billed as the “first epic evangelical stadium event of the decade.” West has announced that he will bring his gospel choir Sunday Service to the Jan. 18 event, which will take place at the Sun Devil Stadium in Phoenix, Ariz. The appearance by the hip-hop mogul is being seen by many in the Evangelical community as a way which will be used by God to “help spark the next national spiritual awakening in the United States,” according to Arizona-based conservative news site The Western Journal. According to the event’s page, organizers of Awaken 2020 are inviting participants to “open the door and enter into a new era, a new decade, of revival that is bringing a movement of signs and wonders, healing of the sick, and preaching of the gospel.” West will join a roster of high profile anti-LGBTQ cusaders in the "monumental movement launching a new decade of awakening America back to God at a critical time in our nation’s history.” The long list of Evangelical celebrities include: Ardent Trump defender Guillermo Maldonado, who has said that having same-sex relations is “clearly prohibited by God” and “invites unclean spirits into our lives," according to the Advocate; Ché Ahn, who has said that LGBTQ equality “is not a civil rights issue” because they never had “rights taken from them,” as reported by Right Wing Watch; “Prophet" Cindy Jacobs of Generals International, who has warned that passage of legislation to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, the Equality Act, could lead the nation to “come to a place of civil war;” Lou Engle, one of the more prominent players on the American religious right, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, who has called homosexuality a “spirit of lawlessness," was a vocal proponent of Uganda’s “k--- the Gays” bill, and once claimed Nazism was fueled by homosexuality. Cindy Jacobs and Guillermo Maldonado are two of the 12 keynote speakers, including Kanye. Others include Daniel Kolenda, Brian "Head" Welch, Jerame Nelson, Jake Hamilton, Jeremy Riddle, David & Stephanie Herzog, Eddie James, and Steve Swanson. Daniel Kolenda is a missionary evangelist who has led more than 21-million people to Christ face-to face through massive open-air evangelistic campaigns in some of the most dangerous, difficult and remote locations on earth. As the successor to world renowned Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, Daniel is the president and CEO of Christ for All Nations; a ministry which has conducted some of the largest evangelistic events in history, has published over 190 million books in 104 languages and has offices in 10 nations around the world. He also hosts an internationally syndicated television program. Dr. David & Stephanie Herzog are the founders of David Herzog Ministries. Brian Welch, also known by his stage name Head, is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He is one of the guitarists and founding member of the nu metal band Korn. After becoming a born again Christian, Welch left the band in 2005 to focus on life as a father and to pursue his own solo career. Jerame Nelson is a prophetic revivalist and the founder of Elisha Revolution. He is an author, as well as a well-known international conference speaker. It is Jerame's passion to equip the body of Christ in hearing God's voice and in walking in the supernatural power of God in every day life. Jake Hamilton is an American Christian praise & worship singer and songwriter. Hamilton released the album entitled Marked By Heaven in 2009, which was his first full-length live album. Jeremy Riddle is an American Christian musician, songwriter, and worship leader. Steve Swanson travels around the world leading worship and training a generation of worshipers into abandoned joy and fullness of glory. Engle appears to have previously been a headliner but is no longer shown on the website. Same for Ché Ahn. That's your idol? d---.
Jan 18, 2020 Imagine being inside Kanye West’s circle & how fucken tiring it must be. Poor souls must age a decade in like 6 months.
Jan 18, 2020 True, plus I'd be embarrassed to follow him to something like that. I think this is officially the lowest Kanye's career can go
Jan 19, 2020 Marilyn Manson story about to happen again, Ye about to slash some non-believers This wouldn't even surprise me tbh, Kanye's lost.
Jan 19, 2020 The irony is that early on he was one of the first mainstream rappers to speak out against homophobia. Now he's hanging around anti lgbtq nazis. It truly makes me sad to see this.
Jan 20, 2020 Let people have their own opinion on certain issues. Three biggest religions in the world don't agree with this lifestyle so are they too "nazis"?
Jan 20, 2020 Hinduism, the third biggest religion in the world, doesn't have any scripture that explicitly ostracizes LGBTQ people (unlike the other two religions). However, there are a large number of Hindus who oppose gay marriage regardless. I'm okay with someone opposing a certain kind of lifestyle until he doesn't force his opinions on others. And that goes both ways. Neither should the Churches be forced to facilitate gay marriages if they don't want to nor should the Christians force anyone to adopt a certain kind of lifestyle. And you're right, just being anti-something doesn't make one a Nazi/Fascist. That's too hard a concept for some to grasp though