When Russian troops invaded Ukraine, thousands fled for fear of retribution from Vladimir Putin and his infamous “kill list”. One of those refugees was a Nigerian pastor called Sunday Adelaja. In the years after the fall of the Soviet Union, Pastor Sunday built one of Europe’s largest churches. Headquartered in Kyiv, it became more than a spiritual force—it was a political one too, frequented by Ukraine’s great and good.
On the Weekend Intelligence The Economist’s chief Africa correspondent John McDermott tracks Sunday down to tell his story, one of biblical proportions.
