Reinhard Bonnke was a German-American Pentecostal evangelist best known for his decades of missionary work in Africa. Starting in 1967, he dedicated his life to spreading the gospel across the continent.
Reinhard Bonnke's paternal grandfather, August Bonnke, experienced a healing from an unknown ailment by evangelist Luis Graf in 1922.
Reinhard Bonnke was born in April 1940 in Königsberg, East Prussia, Germany.
August Bonnke, Reinhard's grandfather, died during the evacuation of East Prussia in 1945.
Reinhard Bonnke married Anni Suelze in 1964. They had met at a gospel music festival and eventually fell in love.
Reinhard Bonnke established the mission organization Christ for all Nations (CfaN) in 1974 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
In 1984, Reinhard Bonnke commissioned the construction of a large tent with a seating capacity of 34,000, intended to accommodate crowds at his crusades. Unfortunately, it was destroyed by a windstorm before its first major use.
In 1986, CfaN's headquarters was moved to Frankfurt, Germany, to distance the organization from South Africa's apartheid policies.
The large tent commissioned in 1984 was only used once, in Harare, Zimbabwe, in 1986.
During Bonnke's 1991 visit to Kano, Nigeria, riots erupted as Muslims protested against alleged remarks he made about Islam in Kaduna. The riots resulted in violence against Christians, church burnings, and several deaths.
After being banned from Nigeria due to the 1991 riots, Bonnke was invited back by the newly elected President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2000 and held a crusade in Benin City.
Following his return to Nigeria in 2000, Bonnke held numerous crusades that saw high conversion rates.
In 2000, CfaN held its largest crusade to date in Lagos, Nigeria, attracting an estimated six million attendees.
In February 2001, journalist Corrie Cutrer reported in Christianity Today that Bonnke's recent events in Nigeria had drawn record-breaking crowds.
Reinhard Bonnke held his "farewell gospel crusade" in Lagos, Nigeria, in November 2017.
Reinhard Bonnke held his last international crusade in Lagos, Nigeria, in 2017.
Reinhard Bonnke passed away in December 2019.
Reinhard Bonnke was scheduled to headline the G12 Africa Conference in Pretoria, South Africa, in 2019.
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