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After days of media misrepresentation, I feel the need to respond to slanderous media reports. The truth is I am not now nor have I ever been anti-Catholic. That has been demonstrated in a lifetime of ministry that has assisted Catholics and the Catholic Church. I have given thousands of dollars to the Catholic Church for disaster relief and have personally supported a local convent for many years. Cornerstone Church has operated a social services center that gives food and clothing daily to people who in the majority are Catholic. My wife comes from a Catholic family and millions of...

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Sen. John McCain / Rev. John Hagee Washington DC, Mar 1, 2008 / 03:43 am (CNA).- The endorsement of Senator John McCain by a Catholic-bashing Texas minister won swift rebuke from the president of the Catholic League and a Jewish leader concerned about his “vicious and inflammatory” anti-Catholicism.  Both compared the minister to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan.On Wednesday Pastor John Hagee endorsed Senator John McCain’s bid to become the Republican presidential candidate in the 2008 election.  Senator McCain responded to the endorsement by calling Hagee “the staunchest leader of our Christian evangelical movement,” praising Hagee’s pro-Israel stance.President...

John McCain is refusing to renounce the endorsement of a prominent Texas televangelist who Democrats say peddles anti-Catholic and other intolerant speech. Instead, the Republican presidential candidate issued a statement Friday afternoon saying he had unspecified disagreements with the San Antonio megachurch leader, John Hagee. Hagee endorsed him at a news conference Wednesday in San Antonio. "However, in no way did I intend for his endorsement to suggest that I in turn agree with all of Pastor Hagee's views, which I obviously do not," McCain said in the statement. His campaign issued the statement after two days of criticism from...

Republican presidential candidate John McCain has been accused by the Catholic League of embracing a “bigot” — Texas evangelical leader John Hagee. McCain said on Wednesday that he was “very honored” to win the endorsement of pro-Israel Hagee, who heads a 19,000-member church in San Antonio. Catholic League President Bill Donohue said in a statement: “There are plenty of staunch evangelical leaders who are pro-Israel, but are not anti-Catholic. John Hagee is not one of them. “Indeed, for the past few decades he has waged an unrelenting war against the Catholic Church. For example, he likes calling it ‘The Great...

Gleen Beck had Pastor John Hagee on his show last night. They discussed the end times. I think this was one of the best interviews I have seen in a long time. It was very interesting. Did anyone see it? Here is the transscript

American Christian leader Pastor John Hagee this month labeled Jimmy Carter as Israel's “enemy in America,” and demanded the former president reveal the anti-Israel sources of funding for his foreign policy research center. “I call on former president Carter to publicly disclose how much of the Carter Center's funding is coming from anti-Israel sources in the Middle East,” Hagee demanded during an address to the annual Washington, DC gathering of his new organization, Christians United for Israel (CUFI). Hagee cited a recent article in the conservative magazine National Review that revealed Carter receives the bulk of his funding from Saudi...

Recently in San Antonio, divergent groups of people gathered to hear speeches, watch documentaries and coordinate their efforts in righting the wrongs — as they perceive them — of a region eight time zones away. One audience sat immersed in the saga, as told by her parents, of a woman killed by an Israeli bulldozer and hailed as a martyr for the Palestinian cause in the Holy Land. Members of another audience viewed a documentary confirming their suspicions that global terrorists, including militant Palestinian Muslims, threaten American citizens and Israel's existence. And yet another audience, this one inside the 5,000-seat...

I found this to be of astounding importance, so I wanted to ask my Catholic friends here at FR about it. In his new book Jerusalem Countdown John Hagee writes on page #162: -=-=- Jesus told Peter: "You are Peter [the Greek word here for Peter is Petros, which means a piece of rock or something as small as a pebble for a boy's slingshot], and on this rock [Jesus says pointing to Himself] I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it" (Matt. 16:18). The Greek word for rock when Jesus was speaking...

C.U.F.I. Rapid Response March 6, 2006 URGENT! This week is our very first E-mail/Fax Rapid Response to Washington D.C. I have chosen this week because I will be in Washington and can measure the effectiveness of this e-mail/fax blast. I want every Regional Director, State Director, City Director, Radio/Television Station owners and Pastors to get the people on your E-mail list to send the following message to their two Senators and the Congressmen in their district in their own words: A) Your name and that you are a member of Christians United for Israel. B) That this organization has been...

American evangelicals form umbrella body in bid to unite efforts in support of Israel. New organization to represent some 35 million Christians WASHINGTON - Pro-Israeli Christian groups operating in the United States have decided to form an umbrella organization that will engage in lobbying efforts in Washington beginning this coming summer. The organization, made up of mostly evangelical groups, will also open offices across the country, hold events in support of Israel, offer political, financial and public relations support, and work to strengthen the strategic alliance between the U.S. and Israel. This umbrella organization is expected to comprise some 30-35...

February 20, 2006 To: C.U.F.I. Executive Directors, Regional Directors, Regional Directors, State Directors and City Directors. From: Dr. John Hagee National Chairman C.U.F.I. RE: C.U.F.I. Washington D.C. Israel Summit, Press Conference and Congressional Meetings on July 18-19, 2006. I spoke with the majority of the Regional Directors of C.U.F.I. on Tuesday, February 15th and we have mutually agreed that the Washington D.C. Israel Summit, Press Conference and Congressional Meetings will occur on July 18-19, 2006. All previously scheduled meetings have been canceled. The session on July 18th will be held at our host hotel beginning with the evening meal at...

A leading US evangelist is forming an umbrella organization under which all pro-Israel Christians in America can speak as one in support of the Jewish state. Pastor John C. Hagee of San Antonio, Texas, is to launch Christians United for Israel (CUFI) at an invitation-only "Summit on Israel" next Tuesday at his Cornerstone Church. The Texas-size church seats 5,000 worshipers and has some 17,000 members, but the summit will host a much smaller congregation: the spiritual leaders of an estimated 30 million US Christians. "Think of CUFI as a Christian version of AIPAC [the American Israel Public Affairs Committee]," Hagee...

Global anti-Semitism is growing at a pace unprecedented in the last half century, a prominent American evangelical pastor said this week. "Global anti-Semitism is growing unlike anything I have seen in my lifetime," Rev. John C. Hagee told The Jerusalem Post during his 21st solidarity mission to Israel this week. Calling Europe a conglomeration of anti-Semites, Hagee said that the weakness of the Western world is that it does not grasp the mind-set of Islamic fundamentalist fanatics willing to murder other people and then call it a moral act of God. "The West feels that if you talk enough and...

Evangelist's 'tone incited hatred of Muslims'TV programs pulled, station apologized to Islamic activist group Posted: November 5, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern By Art Moore© 2003 WorldNetDaily.com An American evangelist's television series on Islam in America was canceled by a Canadian station after the first program because Muslims complained his tone and demeanor was an incitement of hatred. San Antonio-based pastor John Hagee's "tone in his comparison of what Christians believe according to the Bible and what Muslims believe according to the Quran" violated the code of ethics of Toronto station CTS, said Program Manager Rob Sheppard in a letter of apology to a...

An American evangelist's television series on Islam in America was canceled by a Canadian station after the first program because Muslims complained his tone and demeanor was an incitement of hatred. San Antonio-based pastor John Hagee's "tone in his comparison of what Christians believe according to the Bible and what Muslims believe according to the Quran" violated the code of ethics of Toronto station CTS, said Program Manager Rob Sheppard in a letter of apology to a Muslim activist group. Sheppard told WorldNetDaily he believes Hagee's primary intent was not to preach from his religious convictions but to incite hatred....

For Christian FReepers who may be interested ... John Hagee is delivering a stirring message about Saddam Hussein and Current Events ... you may want to tape it when it comes on in your area, order it or listen online ... it's very, very good and very, very relevent ...