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LUIS PALAU BRINGS THE GOOD NEWS TO FORT LAUDERDALE BEACH This wasn't their typical spring break in Fort Lauderdale TBN 2-hour Beachfest Highlights Special 5-7 PM Eastern Time Saturday, March 29, 2003 check local listings or click here  for more information. FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida (March 25, 2003) -- Two days before Beachfest with Luis Palau began, America went to war with Iraq. Throughout the March 22-23 weekend, Luis Palau turned the news uppermost in Americans' minds to an eternal angle. " There's a war going on in Iraq," Luis Palau said Saturday night to the crowd packed from sidewalk to...

Evangelist Luis Palau prayed for captured and killed American troops Sunday during Beachfest in Fort Lauderdale, which rivaled the largest U.S. revivals, according to police crowd estimates. ''Please bless America,'' Palau prayed as a 24-by-16-foot flag was unfurled on the stage Sunday afternoon during a patriotic salute to a nation at war. He asked God ''to protect the troops'' as well as Iraqi ''innocents'' -- people he described as being just like Americans in wanting peace and a better life for their children. He also pleaded with the thousands thronging to hear his message to put aside their political differences...