Wednesday, July 07, 1999
Separatist group has P.O. box here
BY MARK CURNUTTE
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The World Church of the Creator, the white separatist organization that Benjamin Nathaniel Smith once belonged to, has an Ohio chapter that lists its mailing address as a P.O. box at the Anderson Township post office on Nagel Road.
Efforts to reach representatives of the Ohio chapter Tuesday were unsuccessful. An e-mail request for information was answered by a response that read, “How can I help you?” A request for more specific information about the local chapter or a phone number did not receive a response.
The World Church, which predicts a race war on its Web site, has been successful recruiting college students, according to published reports.
But spokeswomen at the University of Cincinnati, Miami University and Xavier University said Tuesday that there are no records of the World Church of the Creator distributing literature or recruiting students on campus.
The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office has “not run into the World Church of the Creator in any of its investigations,” spokesman Steve Barnett said Tuesday.
The organization is based in East Peoria, Ill., and its leader, the Rev. Matt Hale, released a statement that said Mr. Smith left the organization in May and that it does not condone violent or illegal actions. “To accuse the World Church of the Creator of inciting Mr. Smith's actions is akin to accusing the Pope of causing the violence in Northern Ireland,” he wrote.
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