US doomsday minister Harold Camping dies

2 hr ago | By Associated Press

Harold Camping, and evangelical minister who predicted the world would end on May 21, 2011, has died at the age of 92. He'd been hospitalized after falling.

OAKLAND, California — Harold Camping, the U.S. preacher who used his evangelical radio ministry and thousands of billboards to broadcast the end of the world and then gave up public prophecy when his date-specific doomsdays did not come to pass, has died at age 92.

Camping, a retired civil engineer who built a worldwide following for the nonprofit Oakland, California-based ministry he founded in 1958, died at his home Sunday, said Family Radio Network marketing manager Nina Romero. She said he had been hospitalized after falling.

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