Liberia’s acclaimed Evangelist Christian Dagadu, Sr. gets 2nd PhD; graduates Magna-Cum-Laude in Biblical Theology from top U.S. College

By James Kokulo Fasuekoi|Editor-Publisher

His last name alone, “Dagadu,” is now a household name throughout the Republic of Liberia and even beyond. And it has been so for over four decades now, all mainly because of his uncompromising style of preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ!

Evangelist Rev. Dr. Christian K. Dagadu, Sr. along with his wife, Rev. Precious JL Dagadu, are known by tens of thousands of people at home and abroad for their powerful annual mass street crusades in Liberia’s capital and the 15 counties.  

This year, their revival, titled, Crusade 2024, targeted the Mt. Nimba Rang, Liberia’s main iron ore country, where they broke age-old families’ barriers and “demonic strongholds” that had caused setback, set fetishes on fire, and led an Islamic woman through the Sinner’s Prayer, after she confessed Jesus Christ as LORD. 

Besides, Rev. Dr. Dagadus’ local Christian Evangelist Ministries Inc., with probably the largest Pentecostal congregation so far in the country (comprising 16 churches), conducts yearly crusades also outside of Liberia, within the West African Sub Region such as Freetown, Sierra Leone, where they have established two church branches.

However, such a tough job hasn’t come without a coast or challenges; before the COVID struck, the “powers of darkness”, (as Dagadu calls “Santan”), struck him with paralysis, sending him in coma for months, that they had to airlift him to Ghana for medical treatment, while his churches in Liberia plus their U.S. affiliates prayed for his recovery.

Pastor Dagadu’s immediate family too, has never been spared by the “forces of darkness” as it too, has occasionally come under all sorts of demonic attacks from evil forces apparently due to tasks God has assigned to him. Yet, unlike most other ministers, these attacks haven’t deterred Pastor Dagadus nor his wife from carrying out the LORD’s work as He (LORD) continues to protect them.

Amid it all, Evang. Dagadu made yet another history in Minnesota, USA, last Sunday, graduating Magna-Cum-Laude in Biblical Theology. He was among eighteen Biblical scholars (all pastors and evangelists, with one from London), to graduate from his Alma Mater, Spiritual Life Bible College & Seminary, after 10-15 years of rigorous studies.  

Though he wasn’t physically available to receive his degree, the Dagadu’s Family and friends celebrated this accomplishment earlier Sunday at their Congo Town, Monrovia residence, and later watched the official ceremonies via Facebook through live-video stream from Minnesota, USA. 

In the middle of Sunday’s (May 5th) graduation, the school’s Founder and Chancellor Dr. Judy Fornara, promised to send a letter of confirmation and congratulation to Evangelist Dagadu of Liberia. The school will also send a similar letter to Congolese-born and world’s Evangelist McNay Nkashama, who was absent because of an ongoing meeting with Congo’s current president.

Rev. Dagadu’s Doctorate dissertation, accordingly, focuses on Healing through Christ Jesus, and Deliverance of God’s Children from Demonic Strongholds-two key areas which our compassionate Savior Christ, devoted much of His three-year earthly Ministry work, but now being almost neglected by most churches today. 

Having conducted church ministry for some 50 years, his divine calling seems to center on Christ’s Apostleship, with a focus on church planting, particularly in Africa. Rev. Dagadu also operates in most of the NINE GIFTS of the Holy Spirit and shines the most in Prophecy and casting out demons in people.

So far, based on Global Ekklesia’s investigation, Dagadu remains the leading pastor in the entire nation conducting a Healing Ministry which is now highly in demand, amid Satanic afflictions weighing down God’s Children in Liberia as countless seems to suffer demonic control and spells following those brutal civil wars. 

With the assistance of his wife of over 45 years, Senior Pastor Precious Dagadu, in ministry work, the pair runs an effective Healing and Deliverance Ministry in the Gardnersville suburb, so much so that families even pay a fortune to travel from as far as the U.S.A.  and other parts of the world to seek help from their church’s team. 

Dagadu’s knowledge of Demonology seems vast. His deep insight on witchcraft activities plus Liberian Tribal secret societies, including ungodly or deviant practices by people in various cultures of the world, which leads to “Curses,” and open door to demonic attacks and chronic illnesses, has earned him immense respect among other world’s evangelists. 

For example, during his March 2021 nationwide crusade at Cape Palmas, Maryland (in Liberia), Dagadu prophesied that the LORD’s vengeance was about to fall on that region: that God would “breakout” against anyone, or group that would engage in ritual killings, as had been widely practiced in there and other parts of Liberia, for many years.  

He again predicted the same year that the imposing, but frightening century-old Bombax Tree that stood at the heart of Harper City and believed to be used by “witches” in staging “demonic” attacks against citizens, was doomed to fall!

But as several pastors in Pleebo would later testify, many people in both cities somehow doubted Dagadu’s declarations and rarely took the warnings seriously.      

When the crusade returned in 2022, some pastors testified of how Dr. Dagadu’s prophecies had come true, saying that a few men accused of killing a man for “ritual” purposes had been arrested by the state securities and whisked off to Monrovia for further probe. The news sounded strange for a region that rarely makes arrest in such murdered cases.

Next, came news of the downing of the infamous Bombax Tree in Cape Palmas, known also in Liberia as “Cotton Tree”. Cape Palmas is the same city as Harper, in Maryland, and holds some historical significance as it once stood as an independent nation on the Coast of Africa during colonization era but joined the commonwealth of Liberia in the late 50s.

Meanwhile, Global Ekklesia has gathered that Rev. Dagadu’s Thesis is a rich material that his US-Bible College & Seminary itself is considering publishing it in a book form here in the USA, for the college’s own use as well as the public.  

Editor’s Note: Banner photograph, Rev. Dr. Christian K. Dagadu, Sr.