R.I.P. Rev. Ian Paisley

[InTheLight]

DUBLIN (AP) — The Rev. Ian Paisley, the divisive Protestant firebrand who devoted his life to thwarting compromise with Catholics in Northern Ireland only to become a pivotal peacemaker in his twilight years, died Friday in Belfast, his wife said. He was 88.

Paisley was Northern Ireland's most polarizing politician throughout its three decades of civil strife, during which the evangelist's blistering oratory was often blamed for fueling the bloodshed that claimed 3,700 lives.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/09/12/ian-paisley-death/15500151/

 

[Jerome]

From earlier this year:

Ian Paisley vows never to return to Church he founded

he was forced from the leadership of the church he founded. He alleges that the way he was treated has caused him and his family to vow never to set foot there again.

"It was hurtful that was the way they thought they would treat us," Mr Paisley said of the Kirk session and the church elders who supposedly ousted him. "They did that and they will have to answer to the people and they will also have to answer to God at the end of the day." Mrs Eileen Paisley described the letter her husband received from the Kirk Session as "absolutely shattering"."We just could not believe that Ian after 65 years ministry in the same church, continuous ministry for all those years, in leading the church and building it, that these men take this attitude and all of a sudden boot him out," she said.

 

[InTheLight]

From earlier this year:

Ian Paisley vows never to return to Church he founded

"Blessed are the peacemakers"

 

[Squire Robertsson]

From the BBC:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-29185055

 

[InTheLight]

From the BBC:

Fixed your link:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-29185055

 

[Jerome]

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-16910949

His father was a Baptist minister and his mother a preacher.

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