Julio Cesar Ruibal, named the “Apostle of the Andes,” was a prominent Pentecostal preacher, evangelist, and founder of Ekklesia, the largest Pentecostal denomination in Bolivia. Ruibal was born on 15 May 1953 in Sucre Bolivia to a Catholic family, although he lived in La Paz for most of his childhood. Since a young age, he had an affinity for spirituality that led him to experiment with different new age practices and to abandon his Catholic upbringing. In 1969, Ruibal immigrated to the United States at the age of 16 t…