Talk:Universal Church of the Kingdom of God
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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)
- If anyone here can read Portuguese the page I based this on is Igreja Universal do Reino de Deus at Portuguese Wiki
- I get the sense the article I copied has an NPOV dispute or the equivalent. Anyway if you can read Portuguese you might be able to follow the issues/problems with the original version and maybe clean this up a bit--T. Anthony 00:12, 10 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.
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- Okey dokey. I'm just glad to see improvement. It's apparently a fairly large and growing new religion so it seemed like it warranted a fairly big article. Unfortunately the one I made was a sloppy one made by translating the Portuguese article via Babel and then cleaning up as best I could.--T. Anthony 06:53, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
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?
- Go with what seems right by you.--T. Anthony 16:01, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Major updates
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)
After some further research, I found out that it is not widely considered to be a "sect" - only its critics consider it to be one. This is now reflected in the text. --Prophet of Justice 18:39, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] more controversy
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)
