“The European Union Review & Call to Prayer”

EURCP - April 2008

 

Newsletter publishers: Hugh & Norma Davis [Not directed by any other ministry] http://www.euprayer.com/ 

 

 

1 PRAY for and with the Christian prayer and spiritual activities in the nations of Europe

2 PRAY for all EU nation’s citizenry & governments & the EU government itself

3 PRAY for the enlargement policies & international relationships of the EU

4 PRAY for family, Human Rights and ethical policies of the EU

5 PRAY for the Middle East policies of the EU

6 PRAY for the immigration policies of the EU and international relations

7 PRAY for effective EU policies on security and terrorism

 

NOTE:1 Jan. 2009: Treaty expected to enter into force once all 27 member states have ratified it.

 

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1  EUROPEAN UNION OF PRAYER MARCH 2008  SLOVENIA PRESDIENCY

Representatives from the 27 EU member nations joined together in intercessory prayer for the European Union and the Europeans. As Christians they helped create a more perfect society for the good of all. They will meet in the nation holding the presidency, Slovenia, and take on the tough issues in prayer. Without God there is no real workable knowledge. With God all things were possible.

 

After Ortwin, EU of Prayer leader, gave an introduction of the history and background that helped to form the "Identity of Europe" - (wars that could have gone another way, The Scriptural call from Europe - "come over to Macedonia & help us" – churches in every village.

 

We had in-depth prayer and intercession on the following issues and areas:

- Specific needs of each, individual country in the European Union 

- Discussion and prayer about positive and negative results for individual countries if the EU Treaty is ratified and comes into effect in 2009

- We prayed in-depth, and waged spiritual warfare, about the implications of the statement that the EU is to be "family-friendly" (including "diversity" - meaning homosexuals, bi-sexuals, etc), and "child friendly".

- Discussed & prayed about what some individual nations have done to undermine the Biblical pattern of families (Delete "father" and "mother" from children’s books, changed “father” & “mother” to "1st progenitor" and "2nd progenitor" in documents, including birth certificates!) PRAY ABOUT THIS!

- About children - abortion, adoption by same-sex couples & other "groups", non-scriptural births (multiple parents), etc

- We prayed for Christian marriages & families, especially for fathers to take their place and responsibility with teaching & training children

- The church and its responsibility in all of these items - being what God intends for it to be - salt & light, taking & using the authority of the Holy Spirit. One of the group had a vision of the church out on a playground, with the pastor coming with beds for when they got tired of "playing church", and another vision of the church as a mighty army for the Lord – what it should be. We were encouraged to ask the Lord what our particular weapons (gifts, talents, ministries) were to be in His army.

- One of the leadership team gave a background introduction about Islam - difference between Moslem people (whether practicing Moslems, militant Moslems or just cultural Moslems) and the spirit of Islam 

- Prayer, intercession & spiritual warfare about Islam - prayer that Christians would recognize the difference between the “spirit of Islam” and Moslems who might be open to the Gospel, and reach out to Moslem neighbors in love.  

- Kosovo situation & the Balkans: We were given background and prayed.

- Israel: Salvation of Israel, God´s Peace Plan for the Middle East", the role of the End-time church in relation to Israel  

- Some Bible prophecies about Israel, Gaža, & Middle Eastern countries

 

 On the last day, many of the group did a prayer walk around the castle, where the government meets, and met and prayed with area pastors and Christians in a local church in Ljubyana (Slovenia capitol) in the evening. We, for special concerns, did not join this part of the last day.

 

2  Belgian government up and running at last[fr][de]  http://news.euractiv.com/Go/index.cfm?WL=69186&WS=7581_7618&WA=6523  21 March 2008 Published: Friday 21 March 2008The new Belgian government, led by Yves Leterme, has been sworn in more than nine months after the elections that saw his Flemish Christian Democrat (CD&V) party win. But skeptics say the new coalition is a farce that will not last past the summer. The new 22-member government was announced on 20 March. It includes 15 ministers and 7 secretaries of state, 11 of which are Flemish, the 11 others Francophone. Five political parties will be part of the coalition including the CD&V and its Francophone "equivalent", the CDh, led by Joëlle Milquet, who, after being nicknamed "Madame No" for her hard line in negotiations, has been appointed to the Ministry of Employment and Equal Opportunities. The Flemish and the Francophone Liberal Parties (Open VLD and MR) and the Francophone Socialists will also join the government. But the CD&V’s sister party, the Flemish N-VA ("New Flemish Alliance"), a nationalist movement led by Bart De Wever, decided, to the relief of francophone parties, not to participate in the new coalition, saying it offered too few guarantees for an in-depth institutional reform.

2  Dublin agrees wording for EU treaty referendum bill –

 27.02.2008 - 09:15

http://euobserver.com/9/25731/?rk=1

The Irish government on Tuesday agreed the wording for the EU treaty referendum bill, with the text especially crafted to allay fears that the country's traditional neutrality will be undermined by the new EU document..

2. [Comment] Is this what the President of Europe will be doing

http://euobserver.com/9/25877/?rk=1

? - 28.03.2008 - 07:09

M. Sarkozy must have known that the seed of his call for a new ‘entente amicale,' a closer Franco-British partnership at the heart of Europe, was likely to fall on stony ground. Nevertheless, his robust speech to the British Parliament defined the role a European President might play. The French leader has done himself no harm should he throw his own hat into the ring in years to come, writes Peter Sain ley Berry

 

2  [UK] Local polls say 88% want referendum on EU treaty

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/03/eu.houseofcommons

Patrick Wintour The Guardian, Monday March 3 2008 Article history

Campaigners for a European referendum on the EU Lisbon treaty were encouraged before this week's Commons votes on the issue when unofficial postal ballots in 10 constituencies revealed an 88% majority in favour of a referendum on surprisingly high turnouts.

The polls, organised by the I Want a Referendum (Iwar) campaign and independently conducted by Electoral Reform Services, places greater pressure on the Liberal Democrats to back a referendum in Wednesday's Commons vote.

 

3  Belgrade urged to embrace Brussels

http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/?news_id=fto030520082104012224

 March 5, 2008 By Tony Barber in

Brussels commitment to eventual membership of the bloc. "A great majority of Serbian people consistently support EU membership," Olli Rehn, the EU's enlargement commissioner, said. "It should be a realistic expectation that the Serbian government listens to...

 

3  Croatia set to form coalition government

http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/?news_id=fto011220080851391837  

January 11, 2008 By Neil MacDonald in Belgrade

...Croatia's newly declared ecological zone in the Adriatic Sea against Italian and Slovenian fishermen, some analysts say. Olli Rehn, the EU enlargement commissioner, urged Croatia not to enforce the 57,000 sq km (22,800 sq mile) zone, which took...

 

3  Kosovo constitution approved by EU

http://euobserver.com/9/25912 

03.04.2008 - 09:25 CET | By Renata Goldirova

The European Union has given its blessing to Kosovo's constitution, saying it is in line with the international standards that Pristina committed itself to when declaring independence from Serbia on 17 February. "Kosovo will have a modern constitution guaranteeing full respect of individual and community rights, including those of Kosovo Serbs," Pieter Feith, an EU special representative who is chairing an International Civilian Office there, was cited as saying by AP.He added: "On this basis, I believe the government and all the citizens of Kosovo can move ahead to build a sustainable, multi-ethnic society that is a home for all."

 

3  Brussels urges Bosnia 'not to miss opportunity' for closer EU ties

http://euobserver.com/9/25732/?rk=1

27.02.2008 - 09:29 CET | By Renata Goldirova

Amid concerns that Bosnian Serbs could follow Kosovo's example and withdraw their Serb Republic from Bosnia-Herzegovina, the European Commission has said the multi-ethnic country could in April sign a Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA), a key pact seen as the first step to EU membership.  "I would expect we should be able to sign an SAA with Bosnia-Herzegovina shortly, that is in April, on condition that Bosnia-Herzegovina can adopt the required laws concerning police reform," EU enlargement commissioner Olli Rehn said on Tuesday (26 February), according to Reuters. He added: "It's a great opportunity for the country and I trust the leaders will not miss this opportunity."

 

4  Belgium Considers Euthanasia for Terminally Ill Kids

 http://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000006962.cfm

Belgian lawmakers are considering a law that would allow terminally ill teenagers and those who suffer from severe dementia to receive a lethal prescription to kill themselves. The legislation also would allow parents of younger children with incurable diseases to have a doctor kill their children. Under current law, physician-assisted suicide is available to adults 18 and older, and infants who likely won’t survive past age 1 can be euthanized. Since the law’s passage in 2002, there have been an estimated 39 assisted suicides each month, but the actual number is thought to be twice that, the Telegraph reported.“We see that under euthanasia consciousness, even 'choice' eventually takes a back seat to death as the answer to human suffering,” Wesley Smith, an attorney for the International Task Force on Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide, wrote on his blog. “In the words of the late Dutch euthanasia opponent Dr. Karl Gunning, ‘Once killing is seen as the answer to one problem, it soon becomes the answer to 100.’ ”

 

4. MEPs vote not to publish controversial audit report –

26.02.2008 - 20:08

http://euobserver.com/9/25728/?rk=1

MEPs from the budgetary control committee on Tuesday voted not to publish a

confidential report detailing abuses in the way some deputies use their

monthly staff allowance.

 

5  Summit approves 'Union for the Mediterranean'

http://news.euractiv.com/Go/index.cfm?WL=68974&WS=7581_7618&W  

14 March 2008

EU leaders have given the green light to a compromise, struck by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, to create a 'Union for the Mediterranean', an initiative aimed at upgrading the EU's relations with its neighbours from North Africa and the Middle East.

 

6  Dmitry Medvedev vows to emulate Vladimir Putin after election landslide

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/03/wrussia203.xml

By Adrian Blomfield in Moscow

Last Updated: 2:38am GMT 04/03/2008

Dmitry Medvedev has vowed to continue the policies of Vladimir Putin, after being swept to power in the most one-sided presidential election in Russia's post-Soviet history.

 

 

 

“The European Union Review & Call to Prayer”

EURCP - April 2008

 

Bulletin Board Prayer Review

1 PRAY for the items on the issues covered by the European Union of Prayer

2 PRAY for the new Belgian government, Irish EU treaty referendum bill question, wisdom to all the national governments on the new treaty, & new EU President’s powers.

3 PRAY for the enlargement policies & international relationships such as Georgia & Ukraine, Serbia EU relations, Croatia’s new government, Kosovo’s EU approval of new Const. and Bosnia EU relationship. 

4 PRAY for Belgium who is considering Euthanasia for Terminally Ill Kids, MEP audit code requirement  & Turkey Penal code question

5 PRAY about the idea of a Mediterranean Union

6 PRAY for the immigration policies of the EU and international relations with Russia

7 PRAY for effective EU policies on security and terrorism, and proposed new fingerprinting plan.

EUReview & Call to Prayer Ministries, Hugh and Norma Davis EURCP@aol.com