15 June 1956: Taiwo Odukoya is born. He is the Senior Pastor of The Fountain of Life Church, Ilupeju, Lagos State Nigeria.
15 June 1923: Eudorus Neander Bell, first Chairman (now General Superintendent) of the Assemblies of God passed on to glory.
15 June 1755: John Marrant is born in New York; an African-American who became a missionary to Native Americans, one of America’s first African-American missionaries.
15 June, 1215: King John signs the Magna Carta (the famous charter of English liberties), which begins, “The Church of England shall be free and shall have its rights undiminished, and its liberties unimpaired.” This preserved the English Church’s special privileges, especially the jealously-guarded boundaries between secular and ecclesiastical jurisdiction. It also included freedom from lay control in episcopal appointments, control of church property, and the right to have religious matters (including cases of clergy accused of secular crimes) heard in church courts.The Magna Carta was put together for ‘the honour of God and the exultation of the holy Church’ as well as the reform of the realm.
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