Preacher-Blogger Soriano wins as Most Educational to Follow by international web awards

screenshot of Bro. Eli's blog bearing OWA award badge

Although his main work is in preaching the gospel right from the pulpit, a homegrown Filipino religious preacher was able to bring international honors for the Filipinos in the websphere.

Taking advantage of technology to preach, Bro. Eliseo Soriano developed a blog that assisted his work in terms of expounding on biblical truths and had reaped many readers far and wide, asking questions of diverse kinds related to salvation and beyond.

The blog of the host of the religious program Ang Dating Daan (The Old Path) was adjudged as the Most Educational to Follow in the recent 3rd Annual Open Web Awards (OWA) of Mashable on the 16th of December 2009.

Mashable reported that there were some 440,000 nominations with over 70,000 nominees. It also stated that they acquired 780,000 final votes. Out of 70,000 nominees, there came out only 50 total winners. Bro. Eli’s blog was chosen the best contender and defeated the 4 contenders in the Most Educational to Follow category.

The official blog of Soriano now bears the OWA winner’s badge along with the congratulatory remarks of the Mashable’s CEO, Pete Cashmore.

Bro. Eli’s blog, esoriano.wordpress.com, contains in-depth analysis, and studies of certain topics that are featured for discussion. Its uniqueness is the explanation of the blogger in the biblical and spiritual perspective which Soriano is most known for.

Over the years in his preaching, Bro. Soriano has earned many monickers such as The Most Sensible Preacher of our Time, the Phenomenal Preacher, Truthcaster, and the like. At the same time, he has earned many enemies for his exposing the truth about false beliefs. He is known for not having lost a single debate with pastors all over the world.

Bro. Soriano is the presiding minister of the Members Church of God International locally known as Ang Dating Daan (The Old Path). He is now focused in foreign shores particularly South America and reaches out to his congregation spanning six continents through satellite systems.

This was not the first time the blog had been awarded. Esoriano.wordpress.com was also declared as the Most Popular Website and had received as well the People’s Choice Award from Philippine Web Awards early this year. Bro. Eli’s official blog was launched on April 2007.

Mashable is an award-giving body that aims to recognize and award innovations in web technology. Its open web awards program is an online voting competition through partner websites. Mashable Open Web Awards is in its 3rd year this 2009.

This year the voting was done through Facebook and Twitter – the leading social networking sites today. Facebook and Twitter were among of the previous winners of the first OWA of Mashable, along with Youtube, iGoogle, and Digg.

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