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David Hathaway (born 17 April 1932) is an English evangelist and founder and president of Eurovision Mission to Europe, as well as editorial director of ''Prophetic Vision'' magazine.


Biography

David Hathaway was born in
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in 1932, and was the younger twin son in his family. His father, William George Hathaway, was born in 1890. In 1950 David pastored his first church in
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in
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. He was full-time pastor and evangelist for 14 years in the UK from 1950 to 1964.Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...
and
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countries - and he delivered more than 150,000 copies. The biggest smuggling operation was planned for June 1972. The bus was loaded in
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,
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, and next day it would cross into
Czechoslovakia , rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי, , common_name = Czechoslovakia , life_span = 1918–19391945–1992 , p1 = Austria-Hungary , image_p1 ...
. On the border of Czechoslovakia, customs discovered the elaborately concealed secret compartment with 5000 Russian Bibles as well as some leaflets deemed to have political overtones. Hathaway was arrested on the border on 24 June and was accused of committing the offences of attempted sedition and attempted violation of customs regulations. Finally, arrested and tortured, he was sentenced to five years in prison and imprisoned in Czechoslovakia in 1972. He served less than one year of his sentence and in 1973 was released at the request of the then UK opposition leader, the former Prime Minister
Harold Wilson James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, (11 March 1916 – 24 May 1995) was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from October 1964 to June 1970, and again from March 1974 to April 1976. He ...
.BIBLES FOR COMMUNIST EUROPE – A COLD WAR STORY – PART 1.
/ref> In 1976 he organised the successful international campaign for the release of the pastor Georgi Vins from
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(Soviet Union), who was in a prison for his faith. During the 1980s, Hathaway continued to travel all over Europe: Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, even back into Czechoslovakia. In 1985 he held a series of powerful meetings in
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; he got permission to minister in Catholic Churches. In the end of the 1980s he began to openly hold services and conferences in the
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countries. When the communist Eastern Bloc countries collapsed, in the 1990s he continued his work. In 1995, Hathaway launched his ''Prophetic Vision'' magazine. He became a widower in 2014. His wife, Zena, died on 19 December 2014. In recent years Hathaway has been working in
Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
to help Holocaust survivors from the Russian and former Eastern Bloc countries, both spiritually and materially.


Personal life

Hathaway married his wife Zena Margaret Anne Corps on 27 April 1955. Zena soon began to help her husband in his evangelistic efforts and became part of his evangelistic team. David Hathaway has three daughters, Carol and Sharon (twins born in 1956) and Mandy (1968), 5 grandchildren, 2 great-grandsons and 2 great granddaughters.


Bibliography

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References


External links


David Hathaway // Christian Radio

Detention and release of British subject, Reverend David Hathaway, in Czechoslovakia
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