JNS.org – On
a rainy day in Huffman, Texas — on the outskirts of Houston, America’s
fourth-largest city, yet seemingly in the middle of nowhere — I search
for the headquarters of the Global Peace Initiative (GPI).
The destination plugged into my iPhone’s navigation app takes me to a
cross-bearing building in an otherwise empty grass field. There’s no
parking lot, but I slog through the muddy grass to the door. When nobody
answers, I get back in the car and continue my search for GPI.
Minutes later, I receive a phone call from GPI’s founder, The New Republic and “the next Billy Graham” by the New York Times. Indeed, Paul tells me, the seemingly deserted building is GPI’s office. Quite the humble environs for a man who says his charity and peace work has reached 148 countries, hundreds of thousands of orphans and widows in need, and the millions of people who have attended his peace rallies. Global media have reported on how he convinced Liberian dictator Charles Taylor to resign and persuaded Haitian rebel leader Guy Philippe to lay down his arms. Also in Paul’s travel log: meetings with late Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi, former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
Dr. Kilari Anand (K.A.) Paul, a man who has been described as “the world’s most popular evangelist” by
After I enter the facility with K.A. Paul, what follows is a wide-ranging interview with someone who is best described as an international man of mystery. That man is also staunchly pro-Israel, which might surprise you given the aforementioned characters he has met with. His mission last summer: defeat the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers. His current mission: muster the power of America’s 90 million evangelical Christians to help defeat Democratic contender Hillary Clinton in the 2016 American presidential election.
Minutes later, I receive a phone call from GPI’s founder, The New Republic and “the next Billy Graham” by the New York Times. Indeed, Paul tells me, the seemingly deserted building is GPI’s office. Quite the humble environs for a man who says his charity and peace work has reached 148 countries, hundreds of thousands of orphans and widows in need, and the millions of people who have attended his peace rallies. Global media have reported on how he convinced Liberian dictator Charles Taylor to resign and persuaded Haitian rebel leader Guy Philippe to lay down his arms. Also in Paul’s travel log: meetings with late Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi, former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
After I enter the facility with K.A. Paul, what follows is a wide-ranging interview with someone who is best described as an international man of mystery. That man is also staunchly pro-Israel, which might surprise you given the aforementioned characters he has met with. His mission last summer: defeat the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers. His current mission: muster the power of America’s 90 million evangelical Christians to help defeat Democratic contender Hillary Clinton in the 2016 American presidential election.
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