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5 unusual facts about Åsa Waldau


Åsa Waldau

In June 2006 the talk-show host Lennart Persson invited Waldau to his last installment of Debatt on national television, where she got into exchanges with Janne Josefsson and with Bert Karlsson.

She was born again, and entered the Pentecostal tradition, but she also underwent influences from Ulf Ekman and his Livets Ord movement and from Word of Faith.

In September 2004 Waldau was in a one-hour interview program on Sveriges Television by Stina Lundberg Dabrowski.

The Philadelphia congregation in Knutby was established in 1921 during the Pentecostal revival in Sweden connected with Lewi Pethrus.

Knutby murder

Details such as the victims' and perpetrators' involvement in the same sect-like church community (led by a woman named Åsa Waldau, sister of the murdered woman), as well as the pastor's sexual relationship with both the nanny and the wounded man's wife, were extensively covered in the tabloid newspapers.



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