Category: Bill Keller

The proposed mosque near Ground Zero is about to get some competition.

Bill Keller, a televangelist from Florida, announced Monday that he is building a $1 million Christian center in lower Manhattan in response to the Cordoba Initiative’s plans for a 13-story mosque and community center there.

Starting Sept. 5, Keller will hold weekly services at the Embassy Suites hotel in Battery Park City. By January, he plans to open a permanent ‘9-11 Christian Center‘ with daily services near Ground Zero, featuring a 300-seat gathering space, a 9/11 prayer room, classrooms and offices.

Keller, host of a live television program on the Internet, said the IRS investigation was triggered by his criticism of former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his Mormon faith.

In a May 2 broadcast, the televangelist said Islam was a “1,400-year-old lie from the pits of hell” and called the Prophet Mohammed a “murdering pedophile.” He also called the Quran a “book of fables and a book of lies.”

Florida evangelist Bill Keller says he was making a spiritual — not political — statement when he warned the 2.4 million subscribers to his Internet prayer ministry that “if you vote for Mitt Romney, you are voting for Satan!”

A St. Petersburg televangelist does know the troubles they’ve seen: He spent three years in prison for fraud. ST. PETERSBURG — It’s a multimillion-dollar feat, seemingly impossible for a low-budget, late-night televangelist. But improbabilities make Bill Keller smile. At the stroke of midnight after Monday’s newscasts and late-night talk shows , Keller is set to pull off perhaps the biggest coup of his evangelistic career. His late-night talk show, Live Prayer With Bill Keller, will debut on a national network, giving him entree to more than 90-million homes around the country. National exposure won’t come cheap. Broadcasting his program weeknights

Florida’s late-night televangelist Bill Keller preaches fire and brimstone. Now he plans to deliver his message to a national TV audience. Just after midnight on a Monday night, Bill Keller strolled into the UPN television station in Tampa, looking relaxed, if a bit sleep-deprived, in a jaunty red and black Michael Jordan jumpsuit. He greeted his TV crew and pastoral team, took a leather-bound Bible out of his briefcase and hurriedly ate a banana. Then he changed into a dark blue suit, sat down in a chair on the corner of the set and prayed quietly — eyes closed, hands