Get Ready For the Rapture Again
Remember Harold Camping, the eccentric Christian broadcaster who told everyone Jesus was coming for them on 21 May? He's back, and urges you to diarise 21 October, the revised date of the Rapture.
Harold Camping, the Eccentric Christian Broadcaster.
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Africa:
Get Ready for the Rapture - Again
Daily Maverick, 6 October 2011
Remember Harold Camping, the eccentric Christian broadcaster who told everyone Jesus was coming for them on 21 May? He's back, and urges you to diarise 21 October, the revised date… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Five Ways to Achieve Prophetic Success
Independent (Lagos), 31 May 2011
"The world turns and the candle burns and the blind lead the blind." Read more »
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Kenya:
Apocalypse Not Now
Nation, 29 May 2011
Every now and then, a theological crackpot emerges with predictions that predictably hardly happen. Read more »
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Africa:
419s And the Afterlife Scam
Fahamu, 26 May 2011
US preacher Harold Camping conned people into paying him $80 million in donations, by persuading them that the world was ending on 21 May. In the US, Camping is 'exercising his… Read more »
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Nigeria:
The Rapture As Big Business
Daily Trust, 25 May 2011
In America, genius is the ability of one person to misinterpret the Holy Scriptures and cause global panic while another makes a multi-million dollar empire of it. ...And the 2011… Read more »
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Kenya:
How End of the World Was Reported in the Facebook Universe of Unbelievers
Nation, 21 May 2011
It is safe to say that American pastor Harold Camping, who confidently predicted the end of the world at 6 p.m. on Saturday, will have woken up a fairly disappointed man today… Read more »
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Kenya:
Man Found Dead in Church On 'Doomsday'
Nation, 21 May 2011
If you are reading this, your world did not end on Saturday at 6 p.m. But earlier in the day, that of a middle-aged man ended in a suspected suicide. Read more »
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Kenya:
Is the World Really Ending Tomorrow?
The Star, 20 May 2011
"Nobody knows the day or the hour Jesus will return," African Inland Church head, Bishop Silas Yego, said of the reports that the world will end tomorrow following the prophecy of… Read more »