in Colorado Springs. One of the largest "churches" in America. Haggard is a very interesting character who was profiled in the Gazette a few years ago and he admitted to standing on a busy corner of Colorado Springs, Academy Blvd I believe it was, and threw Crisco oil on people as they passed in their cars.(It was supposed to be some type of "holy" ritual)Then they went over to a business on the west side of town at night to perform another cleansing of some sort and set off the fire alarm in the building. It freaked them out and they hid in the bushes. I wrote an editorial to the Gazette about it (which they refused to print:) ) and asked what would have happened if they had encountered a serpent while hiding in the bulrushes? Would they have picked up that serpent with all their faith and start speaking in tongues or would they have screamed out in fear?
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Although Christian broadcaster Pat Robertson apologized Wednesday for calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the Rev. Ted Haggard plans to fly to Mexico City today to try to set up a meeting with the South American leader.
Haggard, senior pastor for Colorado Springs’ New Life Church and president of the National Association of Evangelicals, said he was contacted by a Chavez representative Tuesday, a day after Robertson, referring to Chavez, said the United States should “take him out.”
In the aftermath, Haggard made a flurry of appearances on national news shows Tuesday, one of which apparently caught the eye of a Venezuelan friend of Chavez, with whom Haggard is to meet at 10 a.m. Friday.
Haggard did not reveal the Venezuelan’s name and stressed that the meeting is not sponsored by Chavez’s government.
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