Joseph Castillo

Bishop Pavel Borissov Ignatov, a native of Sofia, Bulgaria has been a minister of the gospel for about 50 years. Born in 1948 he was raised and began his early ministry under the times of the Communist Regime. He began preaching in his house very young and took over the fellowship, which his father Boris had started. He is at All Nations Beijing this week to mentor us in the coming revival to China. Ignatov’s ministry of evangelism took him all over Bulgaria. In 1980 he was elected National Overseer (Bishop) of the Church of God – the largest underground fellowship in the country. The movement was going under tremendous persecution during those years and brother Pavel was arrested hundreds of times and his family was threatened by the godless atheistic regime. In 1986 Pavel was sentenced to exile and internment to the mountain village of Mihalkovo far away from Sofia; the sentence was for three years, but an international campaign was launched very soon for his release; that campaign was led by Human Rights