Christian Extremists

Tamaki is a New Zealand-based Fundamentalist Christian religious leader and right-wing political figure. He is the pastor of Destiny Church, a Pentecostal Christian organisation in New Zealand that supports strict adherence to fundamentalist biblical morality.

Franklin Graham is an American Christian evangelist, political commentator and the President of the Billy Graham Evanglistic Association and the Samaritan’s Purse - a Christian Aid organisation that provides charity to Christians communities around the world as part of its missionary work.

Rick Wiles is a far-right, conservative Christian preacher and talk show host of Trunews, a far-right political commentator and Senior Pastor at a Florida-based non-denominational Church. Trunews - run by Wiles and that still maintains a Twitter channel and a website, had its YouTube account banned in February 2020

Charles McVety is a Canadian evangelical Christian pastor who has been presiding over the Canada Christian College since 1993. Like other extremist evangelical pastors, McVety has been outspoken on his opposition to gay rights, abortion and Islam. His hate-speech has been met with condemnation from Canadian liberals.

Scott Lively is an American Christian activist widely noted for his anti-gay views. Although not a pastor, Lively regularly cites his strong Christian faith as the reason for opposition to LGBTQ+ rights. Lively has also been involved in opposing abortion, but his main focus since has been campaigning against LGBTQ+ rights.

Greg Locke is a hate-pastor and the founder and lead Pastor of Global Vision Bible Church in Tennessee. Locke has amassed a large following on various social media platforms, including Facebook, Telegram, Twitter and Instagram. His website states that Locke is a “revivalist”, with a “firebrand social media following.”

Aden Rusfeldt is a self-styled “pastor-street preacher” who currently heads the Key of David Christian Centre in Philadelphia. Rusfeldt adopts “street-preaching” as his method of disseminating his radical discourse. Rusfeldt’s website, the Key of David Christian Centre openly states it stands against Islam.

Robert Jeffress is the Senior Pastor of the 14,000-member First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas - the oldest Megachurch in the United States. Robert Jeffress regularly appears on Fox News, arguing his opposition to abortion and radical Islam.

Hagee commands a large follower base on social media, and is the pastor of the Texas-based Cornerstone Church - a large church that seats 5,000 people and retains a membership of 18,000. Hagee regularly discusses the topic of Christian Zionism.

Steven Anderson is an American Baptist Fundamentalist pastor that runs the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Arizona (FWBC). Anderson openly expresses Islamophobic, anti-semitic, and anti-gay sentiment through a Baptist fundamentalist worldview.