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Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, was born at Marktl am Inn, Diocese of Passau (Germany) on 16 April 1927 (Holy Saturday) and was baptised on the same day. His father, a policeman, belonged to an old family of farmers from Lower Bavaria of modest economic resources. His mother was the daughter of artisans from Rimsting on the shore of Lake Chiem, and before marrying she worked as a cook in a number of hotels.

He spent his childhood and adolescence in Traunstein, a small village near the Austrian border, thirty kilometres from Salzburg. In this environment, which he himself has defined as "Mozartian", he received his Christian, cultural and human formation. Website: Pope Benedict XVI

BRUCE WILKINSON, author of best-selling, The Prayer of Jabez, and the founder and president of Walk Thru the Bible Ministries, is one of the most respected and sought-after Bible teachers in the world today. Under his leadership, Walk Thru the Bible's ministry has grown to include more than 4,000 Bible teaching seminars every year, numerous video series translated into multiple languages, and a publishing ministry which includes books, Bibles, and distribution of more than 100 million devotional magazines.

Website: Bruce H. Wilkinson

Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, pastor, and networker among
innovative Christian leaders, thinkers, and activists.

He is a frequent guest on television, radio, and news media programs.
He has appeared on many broadcasts including Larry King Live, Religion
and Ethics Newsweekly, and Nightline. His work has also been covered
in Time (where he was listed as one of American's 25 most influential
evangelicals), Christianity Today, Christian Century, the Washington
Post, and many other
print media. Website Brian Mclaren

MOSAIC, Los Angeles, Calif.

McManus serves as cultural architect of Mosaic in Los Angeles, Calif, which has emerged as a spiritual reference point for the future church. As founder of Global Impact, McManus is recognized as a national and international speaker engaging such issues as globalization, leadership, cultural transformation, post-modernism and church growth. He partners with Bethel Seminary as a distinguished lecturer and futurist and is also a contributing editor for Leadership Journal.

Website: Erwin McManus

Kenneth Copeland applied to be Oral Roberts' co-pilot and he was made part of the flight crew. Just a few months after Kenneth worked for Oral, God called him to start his own ministry.

Born December 6, 1936 in Lubbock, Texas he is a prominent and highly controversial Word of Faith television evangelist and the founder of a Christian religious organization called Copeland Ministries.

Website: Kenneth Copeland