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Harold Camping, 89, the California evangelical broadcaster who predicts that Judgment Day will come on May 21, 2011, is seen in this still image from video during an interview at Family Stations Inc. offices in Oakland, California May 16, 2011.Reuters

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A volunteer from the U.S. religious group Family Radio, a Christian radio network, hands out pamphlets with warnings of an impending Judgment Day at Times Square in New York May 13, 2011.

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Picture of a billboard announcing the "Return of Jesus", placed by the religious US group "Family Radio" in a street of the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, in the border with El Paso, in Texas, US, taken on May 20, 2011.

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Participants in a movement that is proselytizing that the world will end this May 21, Judgment Day, walk through the streets on May 13, 2011 in New York City.

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Participants in a movement that is proselytizing that the world will end this May 21, Judgment Day, walk through the streets on May 13, 2011 in New York City.

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Participants in a movement that is proselytizing that the world will end this May 21, Judgment Day, walk through the streets on May 13, 2011 in New York City.

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A bracelet reading "Judgment Day" is viewed on the wrist of a participant in a movement that is proselytizing that the world will end this May 21, Judgment Day, on May 13, 2011 in New York City.

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A passenger jeep drives past a banner with a message that reads " Judgement Day May 21, 2011" at a street in Manila on May 21, 2011.

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Julie Baker walks the streets proselytizing with other believers that the world will end this May 21, Judgment Day, on May 13, 2011 in New York City.

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Participants in a movement that is proselytizing that the world will end this May 21, Judgment Day, walk through the streets on May 13, 2011 in New York City.

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