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Preacher says GOP delaying 2nd coming Monday, October 09, 2006 Becky Gaylord Plain Dealer Reporter Voters should oust congressional Republican leaders because U.S. foreign policy is delaying the second coming of Jesus Christ, according to a evangelical preacher trying to influence closely contested political races. K.A. Paul railed against the war in Iraq on Sunday before a crowd of 1,000 at the New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland Heights, his first stop on what he hopes is a 30-city campaign. The Houston-based preacher said he believes that the Bush administration has delayed the second coming because U.S. foreign policy has...

House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, with his job on the line because of the spiraling Mark Foley cyberspace page sex scandal, was duped Tuesday into letting a stranger into his Plano home -- a serious security breach. Hastert literally let his guard down and allowed in his house a hustling, self-promoting evangelist little known in this country, the Houston-based K.A. Paul, who at 7:30 a.m. arrived at the speaker's home with a camera-wielding associate. How Paul and his aide, Dennis Ryan, got to Hastert's door is a tale of apparent chance. How the publicity-hungry Paul and Ryan walked through it...

WASHINGTON - The world - especially the Greater Middle East - has become less peaceful than it was five years ago, according to the 2013 edition of the annual Global Peace Index (GPI) released here Tuesday by the Institute for Economics and Peace. Consistent with that trend, the index also found that global peacefulness declined over the past year, chiefly due to the intensifying civil war in Syria; the rising number of homicides, especially in Mexico, Central America, and several sub-Saharan African countries; and increased military spending as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) in many nations. Led by...

Green TheologyAustin Ruse, President of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, the only Catholic lobbying group at the United Nations in New York, reports that there are a number of troubling groups circling around the UN. One such group is fairly new and as yet little-reported movement called the United Religious Initiative (URI), now active in 58 countries and 33 states in the U.S. It has been described as "an exclusive, decentralized organization, a spiritual partner of the United Nations." URI positions support population control, environmental extremism, and are radical on sexual matters. A new document signed by URI's...

The dramatically increasing demand for oil in two emerging giants in Asia, China and India, has contributed to rising oil prices worldwide. Petroleum industry experts believe rapid growth in China, in particular, could increase competition for scarce energy resources and undermine global peace. Within the past decade, China has gone from being a nation with a modest amount of oil exports to being one of the world's largest importers. To some extent, Chinese imports are finished products from outside refineries, but there is no question that overall demand for energy in the world's most populous nation is growing fast. Matt...

The Global Peace Summit will be hosted by the United Nations on October 6th-10th, 2002. To learn more about this historic event visit our website at: www.peacesummit.org Women religous and spiritual leaders from around the world will meet for the first time with top women Executives and Government Officials. MORE The Summit will create programs to help reduce conflict, poverty and environmental destruction, and empower leaders to effect their communities. MORE Now more than ever, people from around the world need to join together to help bring about peace.For more information and to find out how you can be...