International Evangelism Center - African Interior Mission ( French : Centre international d’évangélisation - Mission intérieure africaine ) ( CIE-MIA ) is an international Evangelical charismatic Christian association of churches and a megachurch . The headquarters is located in Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso . Its leader is Mamadou Karambiri .
6-536: In 1985, Mamadou Karambiri , general manager in a company, started a prayer group with his family which reached 500 people in 1987. The church was founded in 1987 in Ouagadougou . In the 1990s, nearly 60 churches were planted in Ouagadougou and in different cities of the country. Churches have also been established in other cities abroad. On November 2, 1998, the Bible training center, Le Chandelier, located near
12-689: A prayer group with his family which reached 500 people in 1987. That same year, he founded the International Evangelism Center - African Interior Mission in Ouagadougou . In January 1990, he resigned from his secular duties to become Pastor full time. He marries Marie Sophie Tou, a state nurse on duty in pediatrics at the Yalgado Ouédraogo Hospital. They have four children, two girls and two boys. His wife died on March 10, 2008. Since then, he remarried on May 29, 2010, with Hortense Palm, who occupies
18-726: Is a Burkinabè evangelical charismatic Pastor , born March 7, 1947, in Tougan . He is the president of the International Evangelism Center - African Interior Mission which he founded in 1987. He was knighted by the National Order of Burkina Faso in 2005 and in 2007 he received a honoris causa doctorate in Divinity from the Logos Christian University of Florida in the United States. Karambiri
24-660: The CIE premises in Ouagadougou opened its doors. In 2010, the church founded Impact TV. The CIE had 6000 members in 2010. In 2020, a 12,000-seat temple, the Church of the Nations/Bethel Israel Tabernacle, was inaugurated in Ouagadougou and the association had 600 churches worldwide. The association has a charismatic confession of faith . Mamadou Karambiri Mamadou Philippe Karambiri
30-622: The important thing is not first to change religion, but to discover who Jesus Christ is, and to enter into relation with him. After his conversion and during his stay in France as a student, he attended the "Assembly of God of Toulouse" church. Back in Burkina Faso, he was Director of Promotion at the National Office of Foreign Trade, then Commercial Director of Faso Fani and finally Director General of SO.VOL.COM. In 1985, he started
36-580: Was born on March 7, 1947, in Tougan in a Muslim family. During a meeting with young French evangelical missionaries and after witnessing the appearance of Jesus Christ , while preparing his State doctorate in financial economics in Toulouse in February 1975, he experienced a new birth . In an interview granted in December 2015, he gives details of this spiritual turning point. He underlines that
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