Uebert Angel

Uebert Angel (born Uebert Mudzanire; 6 September 1978) is a British-Zimbabwean Businessman and a preacher.

His name appears on a US Department of Justice list along with 9,612 other people who paid for fake degrees.

He is an evangelical preacher and the founder of Spirit Embassy, a Pentecostal ministry in the United Kingdom.

He is also the Presidential Envoy and Ambassador At Large for the country of Zimbabwe to Europe and the Americas.

He is commonly referred to as Prophet Angel and also formerly known as Uebert Angel Mudzanire.

Angel started his career in 2005 as a businessman when he founded Club Millionaire Limited, providing concierge services in Britain.

He entered the real estate business developing residential properties and later moved to commercial establishments, land and building acquisition, as well as buying and selling of properties.

In 2006 he made his first property sale, and in 2008 he founded Sam Barkeley Construction and The Angel Organisation, the parent company for his business interests, of which he currently is CEO.

He also runs other business enterprises under the parent company, including Brits Bank and Atom Mobile.

He is also the founder of The Millionaire Academy, whose stated purpose is to instruct individuals how to become successful entrepreneurs and run businesses of their own.

The church was founded in 2007 as "Spirit Embassy" and in October 2015 it rebranded its name to "Good News Church", retaining "Spirit Embassy" as a term for Angel's overall ministry.

Described as "a young charismatic prophet", Angel travels by helicopter to preach the message that God wants his flock to be rich, as rich as he is.

He is also the founder of The Angel Organisation which is the parent company for his other business interests.

Angel has been critiqued for advocating prosperity theology through his sermons, teachings and writings, or the prosperity gospel, a pseudo-theological belief that the reward of financial and material gain is the divine will of God for all pious Christians.

He has also had multiple controversies surrounding his ministry and charities and has had warrants issued against him.

He has been accused of financial fraud and sexual misconduct.

In 2023 he was found running a money laundering scheme by abusing his diplomatic privileges.

Angel's former congregants have accused him of rape and sexual assault.

He later moved to Manchester, England, where he founded the Spirit Embassy ministry in 2007.

Angel and his wife Beverly Angel have both been involved in charity work since the launch of his church in 2007.

He helps poor families in Africa and Asia by providing monthly groceries and paying tuition fees of children thorough his "Adopt a Family" scheme.

He is also the founder and president of Osborn Institute of Theology, an online Bible school which was launched in August 2012.

Angel has two financial degrees one post-graduate degree in education from University of Bolton and a Masters in Entrepreneurship from the University of Edinburgh.

In March 2021 Angel was appointed as the nation of Zimbabwe's Ambassador at Large and Presidential Envoy by Zimbabwean president H.E. President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

The ambassadorial role came with the responsibility for Angel to seek trade and investment opportunities for the country of Zimbabwe.

Since being appointed Angel has embarked on a number of projects.

In 2013 his name was included on a list of people who bought fake degrees from an online degree mill.

Angel was born and grew up in Masvingo, Zimbabwe.

In 2014, a Radio Station in Zimbabwe claimed to have access to an "unedited Forbes Magazine story" detailing Uebert Angel's wealth.

A later article at ZimEye.net reported these claims to be false, it also was highly critical of his business practices.

Angel is involved in a number of commercial real estate projects including the transformation of an old West Midlands Cinema and nightclub into a theatre style events centre.

Another UK project is the building of Angel's office headquarters in Lincolnshire, East Midlands.

In October 2015 it re-branded its name to the "Good News Church" (sometimes referred to as "Spirit Embassy Good News Church").

The church ministry attracted numerous followers and there are currently 70 branches in over 15 different countries in Europe, Africa and the US.

Angel has also launched Miracle TV and Good News TV where he carries out regular speaking engagements and broadcasts programs on behalf of the Good News Church.

In November 2015, he founded Uebert Angel Foundation with his wife which helps poor students by providing scholarships, and tuition fees for education.

He is also founder of Free Earth Humanitarian Organisation which works to ensure that underprivileged people have their basic needs for living met.

In January 2020 the Angels paid school fees for an entire school of 797 students at Kadyamadare Primary School in the Chikwaka Communal Lands in Zimbabwe.

This was done again through Uebert Angel's charity arm the Uebert Angel Foundation (UAF).

The foundation followed this up in February when they did the same for 1026 students at Bota Primary School in Masvingo, paying their school fees including levies – for the whole year.