Mamadou Philippe Karambiri is a Burkinabé evangelical charismatic Pastor, born March 7, 1947, in Tougan. He is the president of the International Evangelism Center - African Interior Mission which he founded in 1987. He was knighted by the National Order of Burkina Faso in 2005 and in 2007 he received a honoris causa doctorate in Divinity from the Logos Christian University of Florida in the United States.
Biography Karambiri was born on March 7, 1947, in Tougan in a Muslim family.Guy Serge Aka, Action de grâce: le pasteur Karambiri célèbre ses 40 ans de ministère, fasozine.com, Burkina Faso, March 9, 2017 During a meeting with young French evangelical missionaries and after witnessing the appearance of Jesus Christ, while preparing his State doctorate in financial economics in Toulouse in February 1975, he experienced a new birth.Céline Hoyeau, Dix voix qui comptent sur la planète évangélique, la-croix.com, France, October 8, 2010Sidwaya, Pasteur Mamadou Philippe Karambiri : « Aucun des événements passés au Burkina ne m’a surpris », Burkina Faso, lefaso.net, September 30, 2004 In an interview granted in December 2015, he gives details of this spiritual turning point. He underlines that the important thing is not first to change religion, but to discover who Jesus Christ is, and to enter into relation with him.Dixit: "To Muslims as to Christians, I say, "We are not talking about religion, we are talking about life changing. We are not talking about a system, we are talking about the risen Jesus Christ and the Spirit of life". Mamadou Karambiri, extract from an interview with Sébastien Fath (CNRS), published on Mamadou Karambiri, ex-musulman devenu « apôtre » au Burkina Faso regardsprotestants.com, March 4, 2016 After his conversion and during his stay in France as a student, he attended the "Assembly of God of Toulouse" church. Back in Burkina Faso, he was Director of Promotion at the National Office of Foreign Trade, then Commercial Director of Faso Fani and finally Director General of SO.VOL.COM.Ali Traore, Un Burkinabè parmi les dix voix sur la planète évangélique, lefaso.net, Burkina Faso, October 31, 2011
Ministry In 1985, he started a prayer group with his family which reached 500 people in 1987.Sandra Fancello, Les aventuriers du pentecôtisme ghanéen: nation, conversion et délivrance en Afrique de l'Ouest, KARTHALA Editions, France, 2006, p. 213 That same year, he founded the International Evangelism Center - African Interior Mission in Ouagadougou.Valerie Tianhoun, PASTEUR MAMADOU PHILIPPE KARAMBIRI, FONDATEUR DU CIE : « Si Pâques est négligée, ce sera grave pour les chrétiens », lepays.bf, Burkina Faso, March 30, 2018 In January 1990, he resigned from his secular duties to become Pastor full time.Aimée Florentine Kaboré, Pasteur Mamadou Philippe Karambiri : 30 ans au service du Christ, lefaso.net, Burkina Faso, March 19, 2007
Personal life He marries Marie Sophie Tou, a state nurse on duty in pediatrics at the Yalgado Ouédraogo Hospital.S.D., Centre international d’évangélisation : Le Pasteur Mamadou Karambiri perd son épouse, lefaso.net, Burkina Faso, 12 mars 2008 They have four children, two girls and two boys. His wife died on March 10, 2008. Since then, he remarried on May 29, 2010, with Hortense Palm, who occupies a pastoral ministry in the church.Aminata Ouédraogo, Pasteur Hortense KARAMBIRI : « Etre Pasteur au même titre que mon époux est une grâce », lefaso.net, Burkina Faso, March 18, 2013
Awards In 2005, he was made a knight of the national order of Burkina Faso. In 2007, he received a honoris causa doctorate in Divinity from the Logos Christian University of Florida in the United States.
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