TV evangelist Wendy Alec is a woman of unstinting conviction. 'Terrible things are going to happen,' she insists. 'This is not going to be confined to China. It is going to be worldwide.
'I don't know when they are going to happen but they are going to happen.'
She pauses before adding: 'I suppose this might sound like something from Planet Zog to you.'
Mrs Alec, co-founder of the global God TV network which began broadcasting on Hong Kong's Cable TV in January, was initially unwilling to be interviewed by the Sunday Morning Post over criticisms of her apocalyptic prophesies of a bloody conflict between good and evil in China.
Unhappy about the way the contents of her book Journal of the Unknown Prophet were reported by this newspaper, Mrs Alec and God TV co-founder husband Rory rebuffed repeated requests for comment or interviews. Explaining why they would not respond, a spokesman at one stage drew a parallel with how Jesus had stayed silent in the face of his persecutors before the Crucifixion.
The controversy rumbled on, however, with God TV's unofficial adviser in Hong Kong, Pastor Dennis Balcombe, writing lengthy, mostly unanswered e-mails to God TV executives and saying he felt he would have to disassociate himself from the network if it did not stop promoting Mrs Alec's book on its website.