Jimmy Swaggart

===Promotion of RENAMO===
Throughout the 1980s, Jimmy Swaggart Ministries was one of many American Evangelical leaders who promoted the South African-backed Mozambican National Resistance, aka [[RENAMO]], which was accused of committing systematic [[war crime]]s during [[Mozambican Civil War|Mozambique's 15-year-long civil war]]. In addition to moral support and publicity, Swaggart Ministries was repeatedly accused of providing funding and material support to the group. In September 1985, government forces supported by Zimbabwe captured RENAMO's main headquarters inside Mozambique, Casa Banana. Among the materials left behind by retreating rebels were piles of Swaggart's 1982 publication, "How to Receive The Baptism in the Holy Spirit", translated into Portuguese.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Conflict with Renamo, 1976-1992 «August 1990» Dossier MZ-0020: 126. Rightwing Christian Group Denies Renamo Connection |url=https://www.mozambiquehistory.net/90_08.php |website=Mozambique History Net}}</ref> During the 1988 trial of Australian missionary Ian Grey, who coordinated much of the private support to RENAMO, it was claimed by the defendant that Swaggart Ministries worked through Shekinah Ministries to provide support to RENAMO. That year, extensive media coverage of Swaggart and his businesses in the wake of a sex scandal largely excluded these allegations.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Diamond |first1=Sara |title=Spiritual Warfare The Politics of the Christian Right |date=1990 |isbn=978-0-921689-64-5 |page=199 |publisher=Black Rose Books |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VRDo9R_FbdUC&dq=Jimmy+Swaggart+renamo&pg=PA199}}</ref> In 1991, Covert Action Magazine and the government of Zimbabwe both accused Swaggart ministries of continuing to fund RENAMO.<ref>{{cite book |title=Political Developments and Prospects for Peace in Mozambique and Review of the Electorial &#91;sic&#93; Process in Angola Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Africa of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session, October 8, 1992 · Volume 4 |date=1993 |publisher=USGPO |page=109 |isbn=9780160411410 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=11ijXTSYczYC&q=swaggart}}</ref>