Preacher refuses to have last word on world’s end

A CALIFORNIAN ministry has again predicted the end of the world was at hand – but it wasn’t to be.
By The Newsroom
Published 22nd Oct 2011, 01:05 BST

Harold Camping, the preacher who stirred a global frenzy when he predicted “the rapture” would take 200 million Christians to heaven on 21 May, claimed the cataclysmic event would destroy the globe yesterday after his original claim fell flat.

This time, the ministry and its 90-year-old leader avoided the media and perhaps a repeat of the ridicule that followed when believers awoke on 22 May to find themselves grounded.

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“I’m sorry to disappoint you, but we at Family Radio have been directed to not talk to the media or the press,” Mr Camping’s daughter, Susan Espinoza, said.

Mr Camping, who suffered a mild stroke in May, spreads the word through his Family Radio International website.