The
EURCP-European
Union
Review & Call to Prayer- October
2007
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)
Newsletter
publishers: Hugh
& Norma Davis [Not directed by any other ministry]
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Emmanuel
Duvieusart,
Pasteur fondateur, “Sentinelles De Priere”
email
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[Monthly
in five other languages]
These
are prayer category
numbers. Read the article with*, and pray as God leads you.
1
PRAY for
the prayer movements in the nations of Europe* [EUoP
report]
2
PRAY for
all EU governments & the European Union* [Belgium crisis, Reform Treaty,
Slovenia, France Pres. Plan]
3
PRAY for
the enlargement policies of the EU [pray as God leads]
4
PRAY for
family and Human Rights policies of the EU* [embryo research, UK child
porn],
5
PRAY for
the Mideast policies of the EU* [Mediterranean Union]
6
PRAY for
the immigration policies of the EU* – [Islamization – seek God’s alternative]
7
PRAY for
effective EU policies on terrorism – military and security processes*
[Counter-terrorism coordination]
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POSTER now 5th page because of using Word 2007 which does not
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If millions
of voices can be transmitted through wireless electronic translation, at one
time, to millions of others, what makes
us think that a creator God cannot easily receive our communication, and if we
are “in the vine” [John 15:1-8] receive our requests and act upon them as
promised in 1 Timothy
2:1-2.
1.European Union of
Prayer report
The European Union of
Prayer (EUoP) held its 3rd meeting from 9. – 15. Sept. 2007 following on from
Strasbourg (Sept 06) and Berlin (March 07) in Carcavelos, Portugal, because
Portugal holds the presidency of the EU Council at the moment. According to its
four fold issues the meeting had four phases:
(1) to generate a deeper
friendship and understanding for each other there was a time of very personal
sharing in the beginning;
(2) then we prayed for the country of
Portugal, the president José Sócrates and the ongoing negotiations especially
for the reform treaty;
(3) at the end there was an open
prayer-evening for members of the Portuguese Church where members of the EUoP
could encourage them to pray for “the kings and all in authority”, which of
course was put into practice immediately
afterwards.
(4) In the final session the group
took the opportunity to share what God was doing in their
countries.
The next meeting of EUoP
will be in Slovenia in March.
[Pray for Ortwin
Schweitzer, Chairman]
1.Concern
of an EU intercessor Carol Britton in Brussels
It’s such a new time here in Belgium. Elections for the Belgian Federal
government were held June 10th.
Elections in Belgium are for a political party, not for an individual as
in the US. Prime Minister, Guy Verhofstad, who led the country for eight years,
stated well-in-advance that he would step down from office this year. The day after the election, he gave the
resignation of his government to Belgium’s King Albert. There has been very little agreement of
how this new government should be formed, and which parties would have the main
lead. One man was appointed to
assess the possibilities for government coalitions, then later another man to
‘form’ the government. But there have been huge differences
between the Flemish and French-speaking parties. King Albert, who is a Christian, is
mediating and has appointed someone else to continue to “explore” the situation
and bring unity. So, Belgium stands
right now with no federal government and many Belgians feel much of this
instability, of no covering and the possible total split of the country. We believe our God has His hands on this
country and is covering it. I
pray that individuals will really sense and desire the Lord’s covering. We are praying for the Lord to provide
the right government that will rule with integrity, honesty, purity, and in the
light. Please join us in praying for Belgium’s
government
PRAY
FOR CAROL AND BELGIUM
2.Political crisis grips
Belgium[fr][de]
http://www.euractiv.com/en/elections/political-crisis-grips-belgium/article-166109
Published: Friday 24
August 2007 | Updated: Monday 27 August 2007
Yves Leterme, Belgium's
prime minister designate, mandated to form a new government after the 10 June
elections, and has resigned, raising questions about the future of the country that hosts the
main European institutions.[USE WEB LINK FOR
MORE]
WEEKLY WORD
Couscous with lamb
24 SEPTEMBER 2007
Posters pasted around Dutch cities
this month invite non-Muslims to join Muslim families for the Iftar (evening) meal during
Ramadan, after the sun has set. Today that is at 19.39 in Holland. The daily
fast is slowly broken with a simple snack of bread, cheese and fruit.
With hunger from a day’s
fasting temporarily at bay, evening prayers are said, before the big Iftar meal
is served. One poster I saw tempted passers-by with a meal of couscous and lamb.
Hospitality dinners
invite non-Muslims to experience the atmosphere of Ramadan and to become
acquainted with each other’s lifestyles.
Via the website www.ramadanfestival.nl , you can apply to be
invited to the home of a Muslim family in their area. But you are warned to
apply early as spaces are limited!
2. Personal data
protection under threat in EU treaty draft
http://euobserver.com/9/24850/?rk=1
27.09.2007 - 09:20 CET |
By Honor Mahony
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS –
Negotiations on the new EU treaty have thrown up sensitive questions about how
citizens' personal data should be kept and accessed in the future. .[USE WEB
LINK FOR MORE]
2. EU referendum question
opened in Denmark
http://euobserver.com/9/24868/?rk=1 28.09.2007 - 09:29 CET | By Lisbeth
Kirk
In a surprise move, the
political spokesperson for the governing conservative party in Denmark, Pia
Christmas-Møller, has spoken out in favour of a referendum on the EU's Refom
Treaty, calling it 'idiotic' not to put
it to a public poll."The more transparency and the more direct dialogue with
citizens, the better", she told Danish daily Berlingske Tidende, which
splashed the comments on the front page of Friday's print edition (28
September).[USE WEB
LINK]
.
2.France outlines EU
Presidency priorities[fr][de]
http://www.euractiv.com/en/future-eu/france-outlines-eu-presidency-priorities/article-166313
Published: Thursday 30
August 2007
France is already
preparing for its EU Presidency – scheduled for July-December 2008 – and has
identified a number of key policy areas on which to focus, EurActiv France
reports .
Speaking to a conference
of ambassadors on August 27, Nicolas Sarkozy spoke of making Europe "an absolute
priority" for France. He highlighted
three major political priorities for the French Presidency – energy, the
environment and immigration – and revealed his desire to strengthen the
Common Foreign and Security Policy. Immigration issues had been at the forefront
of the recent presidential election campaign, and Sarkozy had alluded to a more
'protective' Europe, while proposing the creation of a French immigration and
national identity ministry." .[USE WEB LINK FOR
MORE]
Latest & next
steps:
Jan.-June 2008: Slovenian
Council presidency.
July-Dec. 2008: French
Council presidency.
Jan.-June 2009: Czech
Council presidency.
2.The new EU Reform
Treaty will be more flexible
http://www.neurope.eu/
23 September 2007 -
Issue : 748
The EU governments
will seek to agree a new text of the EU’s draft constitutional treaty by the end
of this year. The new EU treaty foresees
to provide more flexibility in the frame. of the
Union, said Gergana
Grancharova, Bulgarian Minister of European Affairs.[USE WEB LINK FOR
MORE]
• Legal reform is finally on the final
firing line - for real
• Unbundling Brussels
• EU eyes Poland over reported illegal
cod-fishing
• EU launches online call for business
red-tape slashers
• Africa flood aid fund will be boosted by
11 mln Euro
• Romanian pupils become poster children
in EU child-obesity fight
• Breaking-up is even harder to do in the
EU
• Greens call for robust legislation to
protect soil
2 THE EUROSCEPTIC
UPDATE
Reform_Treaty_Analysis_&_The_EU's_Tax_Plans?=
http://www.brugesgroup.com/
http://www.brugesgroup.com/mediacentre/comment.live
Date: 9/21/2007 4:47:43
PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: robert@brugesgroup.com
1.EU TO TAKE CONTROL OVER
BRITAIN’S ENERGY POLICY
The proposed treaty will
give the EU power for the first time over the whole field of energy and
Britain’s oil and gas reserves.
2. BRUSSELS WILL ALSO BE
ABLE TO DECIDE ISSUES RELATING TO THE TAXATION
of the reserves without
Britain’s Parliament having a say.
3.YOUNG AT THE SERVICE OF
THE EU
An EU-wide National
Service programme will be established by the Reform
Treat
2.FRANCE, CZECH REPUBLIC
AND SWEDEN START TO HAMMER OUT EU GOALS
http://www.ttc.org/200709202231.l8kmvtx04562.htm
Received Thursday, 20
September 2007 22:31:00 GMT
PRAGUE, Sept 21, 2007
(AFP) - France, the Czech Republic and Sweden, who will pilot the EU between
mid-2008 and the end of 2009, launched talks in Prague Thursday aimed at
coordinating their presidency priorities.
"The points we have in common focus on
reform or reforms," the Czech deputy prime minister in charge of European
affairs, Alexandr Vondra, announced at the end of a first round of talks. "A
competitive Europe" which is "closer to its citizens" are two themes which
should be pushed during the period, he added .[USE WEB LINK FOR
MORE]
2.MEPs back new EU
political party funding plans
http://www.theparliament.com/EN/News/200709/e1ef896c-ed48-4a15-9f7e-0633af62881d.htm
Published: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 10:27:07
GMT+02
Author: Martin Banks
MEPs are set to back
proposals designed to allow pan-European political parties to campaign for the
2009 elections. Before the summer break, the European commission presented plans
for amending a 2003 regulation on the statute and financing of political
parties. A parliament source said that,
if approved, the proposals would afford greater financial flexibility to
parties, such as the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR), the
Party of European Socialists (PES) and the European People’s Party (EPP). .[USE
WEB LINK FOR MORE]
4.Hybrid embryo research
given go-ahead
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/09/05/neggs105.xml
By Rebecca Smith, Medical
Editor and Emma Henry
Last Updated: 1:19am BST
06/09/2007
The Government's
fertility watchdog has agreed in principle that British scientists should be able to create human-animal
embryos after warnings it would be a major blow to science if they refused
to allow it. Researchers aim to create stem cells which can be manipulated in
the laboratory to mimic human cells. .[USE WEB LINK FOR
MORE]
4.Britain Fails to
implement European Child Pornography
Safeguards
Subject: CARE Impact
Direct: Date: 8/31/2007 1:07:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time
From: impact.direct@care.org.uk
The European Commissioner
responsible for Justice and Home Affairs, Signor Franco Frattini has recently
published a blacklist of Member States which have failed to implement European
legislation seeking to promote a co-ordinated approach to combating the sexual
exploitation of children and child pornography within the approved deadlines. Britain is one of six countries on that
list (out of 27 states that are now Members of the EU) .[USE WEB LINK FOR
MORE]
5.Spain supports
establishment of Mediterranean Union while Turkey rates it as second-class “Club
Med”
http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?nid=23202
PanARMENIAN.Net/ French
President Nicolas Sarkozy’s idea of a Mediterranean Union for countries like
Turkey – which he does not want admitted to the European Union – has picked up
support from Spain, whose own Euro-Mediterranean partnership has floundered, but
is getting the cold shoulder in Turkey.
Spain’s Foreign Minister
Miguel Angel Moratinos said, “The moment
has arrived ... to build a real geopolitical space through the establishment of
a Mediterranean Union,” which already has been derided in Turkish newspapers
as a second-class “Club Med.” .[USE WEB LINK FOR
MORE]
6.The rapid Islamization
of Europe
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40504
Posted: September 18,
2004 By Robert Spencer
How quickly is Europe
being Islamized? So quickly that even historian Bernard Lewis, who has continued
throughout his honor-laden career to be strangely disingenuous about certain
realities of Islamic radicalism and terrorism, told the German newspaper Die Welt forthrightly that "Europe will be
Islamic by the end of the century" or maybe sooner. Consider some
indicators from Scandinavia this past week: [USE WEB LINK FOR
MORE]
6.An email from a missionary
friend
On Sept. 11, 2007 there
was a small, peaceful demonstration in Brussels, capital of the EU and Belgium,
against the Islamisation of Europe.
First the mayor of
Brussels declared it illegal because the date was symbolic and because all those
who would attend were "racists." (In actuality he's afraid of upsetting his
voter base: Brussels' large Muslim immigrant population.) Then the Belgian courts up to the highest in the
country also declared it illegal to protest against Islamisation on 9/11 as
it is too provocative to Muslims. .[USE WEB LINK FOR
MORE]
Then the events of this
video clip happened. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR-J8cXYVIo.
7.Belgian appointed new
EU counter-terrorism co-ordinator
http://www.euractiv.com/en/justice/belgian-appointed-new-eu-counter-terrorism-ordinator/article-166886?_print
Published: Wednesday 19
September 2007 | Updated: Thursday 20 September
2007
EU justice and home
affairs ministers have agreed on a
replacement for former counter-terrorism co-ordinator Gijs de Vries, who
stepped down at the end of March 2007.The EU’s High Representative for the
Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Javier Solana appointed 51-year-old EU
law professor and Belgian former minister of justice Gilles de Kerchove as de
Vries's successor on 18 September. .[USE WEB LINK FOR
MORE]
The
EURCP-prayer
wall poster
- October
2007
European
Union
Review & Call to Prayer
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)
Newsletter
publishers: Hugh
& Norma Davis [Not directed by any other ministry]
http://www.euprayer.com/ WEB page now
updated
These
are prayer category
numbers. Read the EURCP article with*, and pray as God leads you.
1
PRAY for
the prayer movements in the nations of Europe* [EUoP
report]
2
PRAY for
all EU governments & the European Union* [Belgium crisis, Reform Treaty,
Slovenia, France Pres. Plan]
3
PRAY for
the enlargement policies of the EU* [pray as God leads]
4
PRAY for
family and Human Rights policies of the EU* [embryo research, UK child
porn],
5
PRAY for
the Mideast policies of the EU* [Mediterranean Union]
6
PRAY for
the immigration policies of the EU –[Islamization – seek God’s alternative]
7
PRAY for
effective EU policies on terrorism – military and security processes
[Counter-terrorism coordination]
KEEP PRAYING, IT’S WORKING