World Didn’t End; Couple Sue to Get Land Back From Church
A couple who said they turned over their farmland to a Pasadena, Calif.-based church that told them they wouldn’t need it because the world was coming to an end have filed a $6-million suit to get it back.
Gilman and Gladys Anderson of Lowry, Minn., filed the suit in U.S. District Court against the Worldwide Church of God.
The suit says the Andersons gave 160 acres in 1969 to Ambassador College, an agent of Herbert W. Armstrong’s church.
The suit says the church “made numerous fraudulent misrepresentations to (the Andersons) that (they) were living in the end of times and that (they) would soon have to . . . flee for their lives to a place of safety in Petra, Jordan.”
The suit says the Andersons were told in 1966 that they had a maximum of six years left, that Germany would destroy the United States by 1975 and that “there would be famine so bad that people would eat their own children.”
The Andersons ended their affiliation with the church in 1984.
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