Claudia Rodríguez de Castellanos

Emma Claudia de Castellanos
Senator of Colombia
In office 20 July 2006 (2006-07-20) – 20 July 2010 (2010-07-20)
In office 12 December 1991 (1991-12-12) – 20 July 1994 (1994-07-20)
Colombia Ambassador to Brazil
In office 6 October 2004 (2004-10-06) – 30 May 2005 (2005-05-30)
President	Álvaro Uribe
Preceded by	Jorge Enrique Garavito Durán
Succeeded by	Mario Galofre Cano
Personal details
Born	Claudia Yadira Inés Rodríguez de Castellanos Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Political party	Social Party of National Unity (2010-present)
Other political affiliations	Radical Change (2006-2010)
Spouse	César Castellanos Domínguez
Children	Johanna Castellanos, Lorena Castellanos, Manuela Castellanos, Sara Castellanos, Matías Castellanos
Alma mater	Gran Colombia University
Profession	Lawyer

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rodríguez.

Emma Claudia Castellanos (formerly called Claudia Yadira Inés Rodríguez de Castellanos) is a Colombian Evangelical pastor of the International Charismatic Mission megachurch and politician. She is married to the also Evangelical pastor César Castellanos Domínguez. She was twice elected to the Senate of Colombia, first from 1991 to 1994, and again from 2006 to 2010; she also was appointed as Ambassador of Colombia to Brazil by her political sponsor at the time, from 2004 to 2005.

Emma is a Christian Pastor and she used to be a senator in the capital of Colombia, Bogota. In 1983 she founded the church [Misión Carismática International] and her political career started in 1989 when she founded a political party called "Partido Nacional Cristiano" in english is called "Christian National Party". She became the first Christian woman in the country of Colombia.

Political Work

She has been the promoter of many important projects in Bogota, Colombia when she became a Senator. She has conducted a lot of economical projects when she was a senator. Emma Claudia became the first Christian senator in the country of Colombia, that's why she made a lot of enemies. Her enemies attempted to murder her and her family in 1997, so she and her family were forced to leave the country under political asylum. In 2006, Emma Claudia came back to the senate with a political party called "Cambio Radical." Along with her political party members, she was one of the main opposites to the FARC movement[Guerrilla] who became a political party.

Selected works

• Rodríguez de Castellanos, Claudia (2005). La Mujer en el Ministerio (in Spanish). Hollywood, FL: G12 Editores. ISBN 9781932285598. OCLC 792930797.