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EUReview & Call to Prayer (EURCP)- Oct 2006

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: after reading the articles below.

EU HUMAN RIGHTS

PRAY that personal freedoms, including religious freedom, will be fully protected throughout all EU nations.

PRAY that a private school in Bavaria becomes a good example for religious freedom in EU member nations.

PRAY about several examples of EU human rights questions listed in this area such as terrorism impact

PRAY that Poland is able to balance it’s social concerns and human rights policies

SERBIA- HUMAN RIGHTS

PRAY that evangelicals and others in Serbia will not lose their legal and equal status under a new law by their National Assembly

SPECIAL EUROPEAN PRAYER CONCERNS

PRAY for the right people to come to the Connect Europe in October in Istanbul, for them to hear from God about it now, for their funds for travel and accommodation, for people to be moved to sponsor someone to go

PRAY that God will guide the debate over the European Christian heritage and value issue in a new Constitution.

PRAY that a celebration of the 50^th anniversary of the EU would include spiritual and democratic values.

PRAY that role of secularism would be properly balanced and understood

PRAY for the EURCP convention convening in early September to promote prayer for the EU

EURCP convention meeting planned in early September for Europeans Christians wanting to mobilise prayer and involvement for EU affairs. See the October issue for the results of this important meeting.

EU HUMAN RIGHTS

Rimini Meeting Warns of Secularist Threat - Says Society Could Loose Christian Roots

RIMINI, Italy, AUG. 27, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Modern man must not fall prey to secularism, concluded participants in the Meeting of Friendship Among Peoples. This was said during a panel discussion on Wednesday entitled "Secularism versus Laicism," part of the Rimini meeting organized by the movement Communion and Liberation, Aug. 20-26.

Polish professor Nikolaus Lobkowicz, director of the Center of Studies on Eastern and Central Europe, explained that "secularism is the attempt to limit or even exclude the influence of the Church and of religion on public life," whereas the vocation of the layman should be that of "seeking the kingdom of God by treating temporal things according to God's order."

Lobkowicz continued: "Secularism intends to prevent someone in politics from appealing to his faith. It has even created taboos that are not discussed (abortion, homosexuality, scientific research). "The modern state must be very careful not to transform secularism into a new religion, as occurred in the Communist countries."

"All this is not reasonable," he added, because, in fact, "all the values included in the constitutions of European states have an undeniable Christian origin and, without Christianity, they would never have arisen."

Close extremist schools - Kelly

Islamic schools that promote "isolationism" and extremism should be closed, Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly has said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/uk_politics/5290338.stm

Story from BBC NEWS Published: 2006/08/27 12:43:19 GMT, © BBC MMVI

But people should not be threatened by symbols of faiths such as Islam, Mrs Kelly told the BBC. She added the government was opposed to any form of law contrary to British civil law, such as Sharia law. Mrs Kelly also expressed surprise at a decision to caution a football player who crossed himself during a match.

'Revolutionaries'

She said the government had to "stamp out" Muslim schools which were trying to change British society to fit Islamic values. "They should be shut down," she said. "Different institutions are open to abuse and where we find abuse we have got to stamp it out and prevent that happening." But she said Muslims were entitled to the same rights as Anglicans, Catholics, Hindus and Jewish groups which all had faith schools

Human rights in Poland criticised

http://euobserver.com/9/22248/?rk=1 -21.08.2006 - 09:59

An official from the German government has for the first time reacted to the steady souring of relations between Warsaw and Berlin and suggested human rights are being erroded in Poland. Gunter Nooke, Christrian Democrat human rights experts for the German government, criticised Poland in the influential German weekly, Der Spiegel, about its handling of a museum exhibition highlighting the fate of the millions expelled from their homes in the 20th century, including Germans in the post war period.

Fundamentalist Christian Group Gets School of Their Own

http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=1hlshjIfch45nI4

A group of fundamentalist Christians in Bavaria has won a long battle for the right to privately teach their children -- without sex ed and lessons on evolution. Bavarian officials are calling it an "emergency solution."

Striking the Right Balance Between Freedom and Security
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=1hlr7uIfch45nI7

Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, deputy parliamentary leader of the FDP and high-profile civil rights campaigner, talked to DW-WORLD.DE about Germany's current security debate

Brussels is using terrorism to further its federal ambitions

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/core/Content/displayPrintable.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/08/29/do2901.xml&site=15&page=0

By Daniel Hannan (Filed: 29/08/2006)

The European Union is a solution in search of a problem. Whatever the question, the answer is invariably "more Europe". War in Lebanon? We need to be able to deploy an EU army. A breakdown in the World Trade Organisation talks? Let's have a more integrated European economy. People voted against the constitution? They obviously thought it didn't go far enough

Human rights in Poland criticised

http://euobserver.com/9/22248/?rk=1

-21.08.2006 - 09:59

SERBIA – HUMAN RIGHTS

Evangelicals in Serbia are also worried about a controversial new religion law

http://www.ywameurope.org/index2.htm w e e k l y w o r d, 14 Aug /06, Jeff Fountain

Evangelicals in Serbia are also worried about a controversial new religion law rushed through the National Assembly just before the Serbian Easter holiday. The law requires churches outside of seven 'traditional' faiths to reapply for legal status and pay property taxes. This includes Baptists, Pentecostals, Anglicans, Methodists, Adventists and others who have worked in Serbia for decades. Many NGOs, religious communities and the Council of Europe's Venice Commission are highly critical of the law

Can anything really be accomplished in the real world of politics and military force simply through prayer? That certainly is the worldview of the Bible: from David (Ps. 20:7–some trust in chariots...) to James (5:16–the prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective). It should be ours too. You can contact Carmelita at: ced@ywam.org.al

SPECIAL EUROPEAN PRAYER CONCERNS

European values and identity

http://www.euractiv.com/en/constitution/european-values-identity/article-154441

Published: Wednesday 19 April 2006 | Updated: Tuesday 23 May 2006 | Langues / Sprachen: [FR][DE]

In Short: Debates about European identity have intensified in the context of EU enlargement and the EU Constitutional Treaty. Although the motto "unity in diversity" is generally seen as best describing the aim of the EU, opinions differ widely as to how it should be understood.

18-19 September 2006 in Brussels: Conference organised by the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) on "European identity"

Merkel reignites 'Christian constitution' debate

http://www.euractiv.com/en/constitution/merkel-reignites-christian-constitution-debate/article-157311

Published: Tuesday 29 August 2006 | Updated: 08:23 | Print this article

In Short:- Following an audience with the Pope, German Chancellor Angela Merkel revives debate about a reference to God in the future EU constitution.

Background:- German Chancellor Angela Merkel told The Guardian on 29 August that she would like to see Europe’s “Christian values” prevalent in a new version of the EU constitution. Merkel said that she sees a reference to God as an “essential element” in the constitution, because Christianity's "significant influence" on European history. In a move that is bound to reopen religious debate in the EU, the Christian Democrat chancellor has promised to revive the EU constitution in January 2007 when Germany takes the helm of the EU Presidency. Any reference to God or Christianity is expected to meet strong resistance from secular countries, such as France and the United Kingdom, as well as the Nordic countries, as was the case during debate on the issue during the Convention on the Future of Europe. (see LinksDossier).

A new 'religion' debate could also cast dark clouds over Turkey’s potential accession to the EU - the draft EU constitution (which was rejected by France and the Netherlands) at present only makes reference to “inspiration from the cultural, religious and humanist inheritance of Europe”.

EU Berlin declaration to be ‘highly political’

http://www.eupolitix.com/EN/News/200606/87934239-d9cd-4032-86d7-0df9fd601d12.htm

Published: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 13:29:03 GMT+02

Author: Bruno Waterfield

EU leaders must agree a ringing political statement of Europe’s values and priorities for a Berlin declaration next year, José Manuel Barroso has told MEPs.

The European commission president has pushed hard for Europe’s leaders to mark the EU’s 50th birthday by renewing their European vows. March 25 next year will mark five decades since the signing of the founding 1957 Treaty of Rome – the same name that was to given to the EU constitution sunk by French and Dutch voters.

A “Berlin declaration” will now take place under the German EU presidency in a bid to add some political soul to Europe’s efforts to fill the vacuum left by the demise of the European constitution.” This is not just about rules but a declaration of values,” Barroso told the European parliament in a debate on last weeks EU summit.

“March 2007 must be more than a commemoration of past achievements; it must be a restatement and recommitment to our values and ambitions, looking to the future for an enlarged Europe.”

Barroso’s is calling on national governments to sign up to a political text that can act as the organising principle for a new EU institutional settlement in 2009.

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Hans-Gert Poettering, leader of the parliament’s largest, centre-right EPP, political bloc welcomed the

invitation.“What I would like to suggest is that at the political level we set a working group of representative of the parliament, the council and commission,” he said.“Working together, we can make ensure March 25… is a statement which will be our guiding light for the future of Europe.”

But Green leader Monica Frassoni is concerned a 2007 Berlin declaration may just end up as an event for euro elites. “I am rather frightened by this solemn celebration next March… we should not just have this solemn discussion ourselves often we are just talking to each other,” she said.

Rimini Meeting Warns of Secularist Threat - Says Society Could Lose Christian Roots

Lobkowicz continued: "Secularism intends to prevent someone in politics from appealing to his faith. It has even created taboos that are not discussed (abortion, homosexuality, scientific research). "The modern state must be very careful not to transform secularism into a new religion, as occurred in the Communist countries."

"All this is not reasonable," he added, because, in fact, "all the values included in the constitutions of European states have an undeniable Christian origin and, without Christianity, they would never have arisen." Lobkowicz said that by "working together, 'secularists' and Catholics can identify a common way to halt the decline of our society."

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