December 21 2005d

Calling Christians in Europe to pray...before it’s too late

"... that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made... for kings and all who are in authority... “ (1 Tim. 2:1-2)

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Emmanuel Duvieusart, Pasteur fondateur, email info@sentinelles.info  14 prayer walls in Europe

 

PRAYER NEEDS –The EURCP articles below should explain why these types of prayers are important at this time. Read the articles and then pray specifically as God leads – pro or con.

Links will access full articles - summarised below the prayers

PRAY: Turkey – that God gives wisdom to Europe over the inclusion of Turkey in EU affairs

PRAY: New Eastern Europe EU members – That they will be a positive influence on the affairs of the EU policies  

PRAY: Mediterranean expansion – that constructive relationships are established for all participants

PRAY: Berlin, London & Paris – That the changing political environment will be divinely led and for the good of all of Europe.

PRAY: Pres. Barroso, EU Comm. – That he would have God’s wisdom in balancing the demands of the competing ideologies. [PRAY - New EU Presidency nation list – as it occurs – see news item and link]

PRAY: European Religious & Cultural strife –That in the UK and France they receive wisdom on how to determine whether to pass laws or promote right attitudes or some of both. [Freedom requires personal responsibility]

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EUReview & Call to Prayer (EURCP) has two main objectives at this time:

      1)  To continue to encourage “First Sunday in May Prayer for the EU Day” in churches and organizations in the European Union, and in other parts of the world, as well.

2)  To identify and contact Christian prayer and intercession leaders, groups and teams in all of the 25 EU member capitols.

We believe we should encourage these prayer leaders and groups to pray for the national and the European Union issues which potentially impact the lives and ministry of individual Christians, churches and ministries across Europe, and the world. [NATIONAL CAPITOL PRAYER PROPOSAL AND THESE PRAYERS ATTACHED]

 

SPECIAL PRAYER REQUEST: We have received an invitation to participate in a European prayer conference in France in Early January. We need to know the Lords will and receive the travel funding if He wants us to go. Your prayers appreciated. Hugh and Norma Davis

 

EU ENLARGEMENT

Rehn delivers stark message to Turkey

http://www.euractiv.com/Article?tcmuri=tcm:29-149560-16&type=News&_lang=EN&email=7581

Enlargement   Thursday 24 November 2005

In Short:” The party is over, and now comes the time of delivery," Enlargement Commissioner Rehn tells EU and Turkish parliamentarians.

Brief News:On 23 November, Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn gave a tightly-worded summary of the status and prospects of Turkey's EU accession process in a speech delivered to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee.

 

Almunia: With strategy, Hungary may join Euro by 2010

http://www.euractiv.com/Article?tcmuri=tcm:29-149093-16&type=News&_lang=EN&email=7581.

 

EU: Not a perfect new reality for Bulgaria

[www.euractiv.com/Article?tcmuri=tcm:29-150147-16#38;type=News#38;_lang=EN#38;email=7581
Bulgaria's former ambassador to the European Communities Antoinette Primatarova argues that reforms need to go beyond the EU agenda.

EU eyes Mediterranean free trade area by 2010

http://www.euractiv.com/Article?tcmuri=tcm:29-149382-16&type=News

In Short: The upcoming 10th anniversary Euro-Mediterranean summit aims to breathe fresh life into the 35-state EuroMed co-operation framework. One specific goal is to set up a "genuine free trade area" by 2010.

The EU's new neighbours

Background: The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership - also known as the Barcelona process or EuroMed - was launched by the participating countries' foreign ministers in Barcelona in November 1995. The aim of the process is to improve political dialogue, promote economic and trade relations and facilitate cultural and social ties.

The process brings together the EU-25 states as well as ten countries from the Mediterranean area: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Turkey, Tunisia and the Palestinian Authority. Libya has had observer status since 1999.

 

Macedonia feels enlargement blues as Paris blocks EU status - 13.12.2005 - 09:58

http://euobserver.com/?aid=20529&rk=1

13.12.2005 - 09:58 CET | By Mark Beunderman EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS

The former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia appeared on Monday to be the first country to become a victim of the EU's enlargement fatigue, as France blocked a decision to grant it official EU candidate member status..

[EURCP REF. ACTS 16:6-10]

 

BERLIN, LONDON & PARIS

Blair, Merkel Emphasize EU Cooperation

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1790221,00.html

Merkel didn't show her cards following her first meeting with Blair

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Tony Blair talked of increasing cooperation across the EU ahead of sticky budget talks. But both ducked questions on key issues following their first meeting.

 

Merkel: Berlin won't stand in way of Turkey's EU bid

www.euractiv.com/Article?tcmuri=tcm:29-150009-16#38;type=News#38;_lang=EN#38;email=7581

German leader Angela Merkelhas soughtto reassure her Turkish counterpart that she will notstand in the way of Ankara's membership talks with the EU.

Blair budget plan may cause East-West divide - 30.11.2005 - 10:16

http://euobserver.com/?aid=20444&rk=1

New member state politicians have sharply attacked UK prime minister Tony Blair for his proposed EU structural spending cuts - but western European net paying countries appear to be happy with London's plans for the 2007-2013 EU budget.

East European economies: East, west and the gap between

www.euractiv.com/Article?tcmuri=tcm:29-149801-16#38;type=Analysis#38;_lang=EN#38;email=7581

This article, published inThe Economist, assesses whether the poorest post-communist countries can ever catch up.

 

The EU's new neighbours

[www.euractiv.com/Article?tcmuri=tcm:29-129625-16#38;type=LinksDossier#38;_lang=EN#38;email=7581

The EU is in the process of drawing up a coherent policy framework for its new neighbourhood. The three main objectives are enhancing co-operation in the political field as well as in security matters and social-economic development in a way that is distinct from EU membership.

Merkel Urges Recovery and Resolve in First Speech

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,1797233,00.html?maca=en-bulletin-433-html

DW staff (nda) | www.dw-world.de | © Deutsche Welle.

Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke of a strong and just future Germany

Angela Merkel gave her first speech to parliament as German chancellor Wednesday and spoke of a strong Germany full of opportunities and a country that would stand firm on the issues of justice and equal rights.

Merkel, 51, who is Germany's first female leader and the first from the former communist east, struck a personal note when she discussed her hopes for the country's future. "The biggest surprise of my lifetime is freedom," she said, saying she had never expected to see the other side of the Berlin Wall before she retired. "Let us dare to have more freedom," she said, including more opportunities for Germans to pursue their hopes for prosperity. "Who would have thought that the highest governmental office would be given to a woman this year already?" Merkel said.

 

POLAND

Poland pledges EU allegiance - 23.11.2005

http://euobserver.com/?aid=20401&rk=1

Warsaw and Brussels put on a show of friendship on Wednesday, while piling pressure on the UK presidency to sort out the EU budget mess.

EU GOVERNMENT.

Barroso in need of allies after one year in office –

22.11.2005   http://euobserver.com/?aid=20391&rk=1

It has been a bumpy first year in office for the Barroso commission, in which experts blame the EU executive for already giving up on key priorities like the constitution and the services directive.

MEPs and France reluctant to open ministers' debates –

05.12.2005  http://euobserver.com/?aid=20473&rk=1

The UK plan to open EU ministers' debates to the public appears to be off the agenda for now, following French reservations and MEPs' reluctance to back the idea.

Free-market eurosceptics join forces

05.12.2005 - 17:46 CET | By Mark Beunderman

http://euobserver.com/9/20480/?print=1

EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - While free marketeers from politics and think tanks launched a new eurosceptic network in Brussels on Monday (5 December), the possible election of David Cameron as UK conservative leader could prompt the formation of a new anti-EU integration group in the European Parliament.

 

Ministers fix order of future EU presidencies

http://euobserver.com/?aid=20534&rk=1

13.12.2005 - 09:56 CET | By Lisbeth Kirk

EU foreign ministers have agreed the order of future EU presidencies for the coming 13 years, with Estonia to take the helm in June 2018 as the last of the current 25 EU member states

UK

Cameron chosen as new Tory leader

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4502652.stm

David Cameron has been elected as the new Conservative leader by a margin of more than two to one over David Davis. The 39-year-old beat rival Mr Davis by 134,446 votes to 64,398 in a postal ballot of Tory members across the UK

Clarke attacks Cameron's European 'disaster'

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/12/12/ntory12.xml&site=5

By George Jones and David Rennie (Filed: 12/12/2005)

Kenneth Clarke claimed yesterday that David Cameron risked becoming the most extreme Eurosceptic ever to lead the Conservatives. As Tories celebrated polls showing that Mr Cameron had given them a lead over Labour, Mr Clarke criticised plans to leave the main centre-Right group in the European Parliament. The former chancellor, who was defeated in the leadership contest, said pulling Tory Euro-MPs out of the European People's Party would be a disastrous way for Mr Cameron to announce himself on the world stage. An ICM poll for the Sunday Telegraph showed 37 per cent of people said they would vote Conservative if there was a general election tomorrow. Labour was on 35 with the Liberal Democrats on 21.

 

Buddha Boy of Notting Hill seeks Tory enlightenment

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/12/06/do0601.xml&site=15

By Alice Thomson(Filed: 06/12/2005)

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But the question remains: can this 39-year-old lead the Tories to enlightenment? Thus far, Mr Cameron has done well. He has stuck up for what he believes in, and refused to budge on the drugs issue. He has made a firm commitment to pull the Conservative MEPs out of the European People's Party, because he sees it as a matter of principle and common sense.

 

SELECTED EU ANALYSIS

Nationhood, modernity, democracy Manifestations of national identity in modern Europe

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2005-11-17-schopflin-en.html    György Schöpflin

The history of modern nation building suggests that the authority of the state must be grounded in the common cultural and ethnic values of its citizens. In the present day, however, state power is eroded by the decline of party politics and effects of globalization. In this context, argues the Hungarian MEP, cultural diversity, articulated as ethnic identity, will find ever stronger expression. Small states are more exposed to external influences and need stronger barriers to protect their cultural norms. It would help, he says, if the larger states practiced a measure of self-restraint and tried to understand the needs of smaller communities. ]

 

EUROPEAN RELIGIOUS & CULTURAL STRIFE

Britain, Racial and Religious Hatred Bill - a serious threat to free speech

http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/article.php3?id_article=903

IV Online magazine : IV372 - November 2005 Alan Thornett

Britain’s Blairite Labour government is proposing to introduce what they call the Incitement to Religious and Racial Hatred Bill, allegedly to protect Muslims against Islamophobia. Alan Thornett, a leading member of the ISG and member of Respect’s leadership argues that it will do quite the opposite; in fact it will extend Britain’s already existing and archaic blasphemy laws and threaten free speech. George Galloway has already voted for this Bill during its current progress through Parliament and a majority on the Respect National Council appear to find no problem with it. Thornett argues that this is a big mistake.

 

The House of Lords has voted by a majority 260 votes to 111 to reject the Racial and Religious Hatred Bill which is currently before Parliament. The Government will now have to decide whether to carry out its threat to use the Parliament Act to force it through or compromise with amendments proposed by the Lords.

 

Commentary: French assimilation vs. British multiculturalism - what integration model for Europe?

http://www.euractiv.com/Article?tcmuri=tcm:29-147799-16&type=News&_lang=EN&email=7581

Published: Tuesday 15 November 2005 | Updated: Tuesday 15 November 2005

In Short:

Trevor Philllips, chair of the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) in the UK, contrasts the different integration models in France and the UK in an interview with Le Monde of 12 November.

In his attempt to uncover the underlying reasons for rioting in the French suburbs, Trevor Phillips observes that the heart of French identity is "rigid and crushing".  To him, the headscarf affair which ended in a ban for girls wanting to wear it in schools illustrated this. "Making a piece of cloth an issue of national loyalty is to me ridiculous and oppressive," he told Le Monde.

 

Situation of Roma in France at crisis proportions - report

www.euractiv.com/Article?tcmuri=tcm:29-150507-16#38;type=News#38;_lang=EN#38;email=7581

A new report by the European Roma Rights Centre finds that France's Gypsy and Romani population lives in a pervasive climate of racism and discrimination.

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Also contact http://ccea.sentinelles.free.fr/US/ Emmanuel Duvieusart, Pasteur fondateur, email info@sentinelles.info  14 prayer walls in Europe

 

ATTACHMENT – EU National Capitols Prayer Groups Proposal  &  Prayer List Summary Poster

 

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