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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Apocalypse Still Imminent: Rapture Now Coming in October
THE GUARDIAN: Harold Camping says his prophecy that the world would end was off by five months, and the Rapture will actually take place on 21 October
Good news for Rapture lovers! The world is going to end after all – only it's going to take a little longer than predicted.
Harold Camping, architect of Saturday's dramatic events in which Judgment Day came and went without so much as an earthquake, has revealed what went wrong. He took to his show on his network Family Radio to reveal the simple truth: the Apocalypse was imminent, he'd just got it out by five months. So now the world is going to end – really and truly this time – on 21 October.
Camping was disarmingly honest about the impact the world's inconvenient continuance was having on him, after he predicted 200 million Christians would rise to heaven by 6pm on Saturday followed by the destruction of the Earth in a massive fireball. » | Ed Pilkington in New York | Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Saturday, May 21, 2011
American radio preacher predicts doomsday
If Harold Camping is right, then you should probably stop reading this and go say goodbye to your family.
The 89-year-old California-based preacher host of the "Open Forum" television and radio show has predicted that the Christian Rapture - the return of Jesus Christ and an accompanying worldwide disaster - is set to take place on Saturday, May 21.
"We have no plan B, it is going to happen," Camping said. "The Bible is a very factual book."
Camping has, according to some of his colleagues, spent millions of dollars promoting the end of the world, but he predicted a previous Rapture in 1994. Clearly, that didn't happen.
Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds reports from Los Angeles.
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: A US evangelical Christian has predicted that the apocalypse will take place on Saturday, prompting derision from atheist groups.
Harold Camping, 89, previously made a failed prediction that Jesus Christ would return to Earth in 1994.
But, the head of the Christian radio network Family Stations Inc has said that he is sure an earthquake will hit on May 21, sweeping true believers to heaven and leaving others behind to be engulfed in the world's destruction over a few months.
"We know without any shadow of a doubt it is going to happen," he said.
His Family Radio [Worldwide] has 66 US stations and broadcasts in more than 30 languages through international affiliates.
His supporters have posted about 2,200 billboards around the United States about the coming apocalypse, and dozens of followers have driven across the country to spread the news. » | Friday, May 20, 2011
