Monitor The Strategic Trends
Introduction:
Tolerance is the buzz word ricocheting around politically correct circles over the past few years. What that really means is that all political, philosophical and theologically correct viewpoints must be tolerated, and any other viewpoints must be mercilessly squelched. The bottom line of this whole rhetoric is that the Christian viewpoint is hateful and must be silenced.
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Pope Benedict XVI: Is Joseph Ratzinger All Talk? May 18, 2010
Tony Blair To Launch Faith Foundation In US March 16, 2010
Epiphany and the Twelve Days After Christmas January 05, 2010
Religion Is Just A Patsy September 01, 2009
God is Still Alive, Despite The Progressives August 18, 2009
Strategic Trends Update: The Placebo Effect of Mystical Experience by by Leisa Garcia, IDB Folio Specialist
Strategic Trends Update: Whatever Happened to the New Age? Part 2 by Leisa Garcia, Folio Specialist
Issachar Report: Whatever Happened to the New Age? Part 1 by Leisa Garcia, Koinonia Institute
Surprising Doctrinal Reversal?: The Pope Begs Forgiveness! by Chuck Missler
**ADDITIONAL DOCUMENTS AND LINKS**
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Documents
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Related Sites
Message To Buddhists For The Feast Of Vesakh 2001 - An example of efforts to bring Buddhists and Christians together.
Earth Charter Completed--Global Religion Not Far Away -
Bah' Faith - The second most global religion -
Eagle Forum - Keep up to date with education in politics
Voice of the Martyrs - Updates on persecuted Christians worldwide.
News Sources
Afghan Christians Need Prayer - Some Christians in Afghanistan have said they afraid for their lives and they have asked Christians around the world to remember them in their prayers.
Several members of the Afghan parliament have called for the death penalty for any Afghan who leaves Islam for Christianity.
They have been compiling a list of foreigners and locals who they believe should be questioned. Officials have also said 14 foreign non-governmental organizations should be investigated.
Pope Accepts Catholic Church Responsibility For Sex Abuse - The Pope has laid the blame for the "truly terrifying" clerical sex abuse crisis squarely on the Catholic Church for the first time as he arrived in Portugal for a four-day visit. Benedict XVI said that "the greatest persecution of the church does not come from enemies on the outside but is born from the sins within the church." His remarks were a repudiation of a string of senior figures of Vatican who in recent months have attributed the scandal to a shadowy conspiracy mounted by outsiders, ranging from a hostile media to liberals within the Church.
UK: Flag of Jesus Frowned On As Religious 'Advertising' - Rev Mark Binney, vicar of St Andrew's Church, Hampton, Worcs, said he had been told he needed planning permission if he wanted to fly a flag "advertising Christianity" in future. The flag was put up outside the church in the week preceding Easter Sunday displaying the words 'This is Holy Week' and an image of Jesus on the cross. Mr Binney said the warning was "appalling", and he felt it was part of a gradual erosion of Christianity in Britain.
Obama Influenced By Many Religions - President Obama, who rarely attends public church services, turns often to a wide range of Baptists, Mainline Protestants, Catholics, Muslims and Jews for prayer and spiritual and moral discussion, according to a new report. While this effort to include the religions of most Americans may appear unifying, it demonstrates that Obama lacks true religious conviction of his own and is not dependent wholly on Jesus Christ.
Haitians Rejecting Voodoo After Quake - When Pat Robertson made his now infamous comments about Haiti, it ignited a controversy in the United States and immediately triggered a Facebook page denouncing him. Unbeknownst to many, people in Haiti have been espousing such sentiments and in the last few months, the issue has surfaced in the open as Haitians began discussing whether indeed, their independence from France was not born out of pact with the devil. In the month or so since the earthquake destroyed most of this capital city with a death toll of more than 230,000 people reported by Haitian authorities, Haitians from all walks of life have been saying that they need to have a new way of thinking and acting.
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