26 Facts About Eddie Villanueva

Eddie Villanueva, is an evangelist and president-founder of the Jesus Is Lord Church Worldwide.

Eddie Villanueva was previously a communist-atheist, radical activist, and street parliamentarian.

Eddie Villanueva is the founder of the Philippines for Jesus Movement, which has more than forty bishops from different Christian churches nationwide as members.

Eddie Villanueva was a presidential candidate in the 2004 and 2010 Philippine elections and a senatorial candidate in the 2013 midterm Philippine elections, all as the standard bearer of the Bangon Pilipinas Party.

Eddie Villanueva is a radio-TV evangelist owning ZOE Broadcasting Network, a commercial television and radio broadcasting station which owns VHF Channel 11 and UHF Channel 33.

Eddie Villanueva is the owner and founder of the Jesus Is Lord Colleges Foundation, Inc, a Christian school in Bocaue, Bulacan, where his wife, Adoracion Villanueva is the school president.

Eddie Villanueva is currently a member of the 19th Congress of the Philippines and has been a Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives in the 18th Congress.

Eddie Villanueva was born on October 6,1946, in Bocaue, Bulacan, to parents Joaquin Eddie Villanueva and Maria Cruz.

Joaquin Eddie Villanueva was a former Olympic sprinter who represented the Philippines in the Far Eastern Games for four consecutive years in 1920s.

In 1969, Eddie Villanueva graduated with a degree in commerce, majoring in economics, from the Philippine College of Commerce, since renamed the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.

Eddie Villanueva was immersed in both student and labor movements in the 1970s, joining the progressive segments of society which opposed Marcos' dictatorship.

Eddie Villanueva took up law at the University of the Philippines but was already into so much activism that he never had time to take the bar examination.

Eddie Villanueva worked as a full-time faculty member in the Economics and Finance Department of PCC until 1972.

Eddie Villanueva then worked as the export manager of Maran Export Industries in 1973 and from 1976 to 1977, he was the general manager of the Agape Trading Co.

Eddie Villanueva returned to PCC, now renamed, in 1978 as a part-time professor.

Five days after that "dramatic encounter with God", Eddie Villanueva was brought face to face with a miracle he could never forget: the land-grabbers were arrested and detained.

On October 5,1978, Eddie Villanueva founded the Jesus Is Lord Church Worldwide formerly named Jesus Is Lord Fellowship, "which started with just 15 members from his Bible studies".

Eddie Villanueva is against same-sex marriage; he said in an interview, "According to the Bible, don't imitate what happened in Sodom and Gomorrah because judgment will befall on the country if it's done".

Eddie Villanueva ran for a Senate seat in 2013 as a standalone candidate of Bangon Pilipinas.

Eddie Villanueva was ordained Minister of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ in 1979 by the California-based Victory in Christ Church and International Ministries.

Eddie Villanueva has been conferred the office of Episcopacy by the Sectarian Body of Christ in the Philippines in April 1996.

In February 2001, Eddie Villanueva received the EDSA People Power Freedom Award for ZOE TV 11 for its fair coverage of the People Power II movement.

Eddie Villanueva founded and owns ZOE Broadcasting Network Inc and operates Channel 11 on Filipino television.

Eddie Villanueva married Dr Adoracion "Dory" Villanueva on June 5,1971, and their marriage lasted until her death on March 10,2020.

Emmanuel Joel Eddie Villanueva, is currently a Senator, Senate Majority Leader, and became the youngest member of the House of Representatives when he took his oath of office as a representative of the CIBAC partylist on February 6,2002.

Eddie Villanueva was married to Sherwin Tugna, a former CIBAC partylist representative.