Last Thursday, Pope Francis and former Israeli
President Shimon Peres met for an extended 45
minute private conversation. The focus of this
discussion was a proposal by Peres to establish a
“United Nations of Religions”. It was the third
meeting between the two men in a little more
than four months. As you will see below, Pope
Francis showed “his interest, attention, and
encouragement” as Peres explained his proposal.
Of course Pope Francis didn’t commit to anything,
and we probably will not see a “United Nations of
Religions” any time soon, but every idea has to
start somewhere. If Pope Francis does ultimately
decide to actively push for such a thing, could we
eventually see a single global body that claims to
represent all of the religions of the world?
It is very unusual for a Pope to meet with any
world leader three times in just over four months.
But it is this latest meeting between Pope Francis
and Shimon Peres that was the most noteworthy
by far. The following is how Fox News reported on
it…
Retired Israeli President Shimon Peres has
proposed a new global peace initiative to
Pope Francis: A “United Nations of
Religions ,” given that most wars today have
religious, not nationalistic, undercurrents.
The Vatican said Peres pitched the initiative
during a 45-minute audience Thursday in the
Apostolic Palace. The two men last met
when Francis invited the then-Israeli
president and Palestinian leader Mahmoud
Abbas to pray for peace together in the
Vatican gardens on June 8.
So exactly why does Peres want a “United
Nations of Religions”?
Well, according to the Jerusalem Post it is
because he believes that such a body would have
the best chance of preventing war and violence in
the world…
In an interview with the Catholic Magazine
Famiglia Cristiana, Peres called on Francis to
leverage his respect to create an interfaith
organization to curb religious violence.
“What we need is an organization of United
Religions… as the best way to combat
terrorists who kill in the name of faith,”
Peres said. “What we need is an
unquestionable moral authority who says out
loud, ‘No, God does not want this and does
not allow it.’”
After his private meeting with Peres, Vatican
spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi said that the
Pope “listened, showing his interest, attention,
and encouragement
” while Peres shared his ideas. The Pope did not
commit to anything, but he also did not dismiss
the idea of a United Nations of Religions.
And the truth is that such an organization would
fit in very well with what the Pope has been trying
to do his entire tenure. He has been doing just
about all that he can to “build bridges” to other
religions.
For example, earlier this year the Pope authorized
“Islamic prayers and readings from the Quran” at
the Vatican for the first time ever…
For the first time in history, Islamic prayers
and readings from the Quran will be heard at
the Vatican on Sunday, in a move by Pope
Francis to usher in peace between Israelis
and Palestinians.
Francis issued the invitation to Israeli
President Shimon Peres and Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during
his visit last week to Jordan, Israel, and the
Palestinian Authority.
Abbas, Peres, and Francis will be joined by
Jewish, Christian and Islamic religious
leaders, a statement released by Peres’s
spokesperson said, according to the Times
of Israel .
And the Pope has been relentlessly reaching out
to Protestant organizations.
Here is one example of him reaching out to
American charismatics from earlier this summer…
Two controversial TV preachers recently met
Pope Francis in an effort to work toward
tearing down the ‘walls of division’ between
Catholics and Protestants.
Kenneth Copeland and James Robison are
two religious leaders in northeast Texas
known for drawing huge crowds to their
services and events, and who were a part of
leading the group identifying as a “delegation
of Evangelical Christian leaders” in its
meeting with the Roman Catholic pontiff late
last month.
In addition, earlier this year the Pope even met
with television minister Joel Osteen…
Megachurch speaker and author Joel Osteen
was among a group of political and religious
leaders who met with Pope Francis at the
Vatican on Thursday.
According to reports, Osteen was part of a
delegation organized by the International
Foundation in an effort to encourage
interfaith relations and ecumenicism. Utah
Senator Mike Lee (R), a Mormon, Gayle
Beebe, the president of the
interdenominational Westmont College in
California, and Pastor Tim Timmons, founder
of South Coast Community Church also in
California, were among those who who
greeted the pope, along with Osteen.
“I just felt very honored and very humbled,”
Osteen told local television station Click 2
Houston. “It was amazing. And even to go
back into that part of the Vatican—there’s
so much history there, the place that they
took us through. You feel that deep respect
and reverence for God.”
And this is not something that just started
recently. Pope Francis has been pushing an
ecumenical agenda very hard from the very first
moments of his papacy. For much more on this,
please see my previous article entitled “Pope
Francis And The Emerging One World Religion
“.
But there is one type of Christian that Pope
Francis does not have anything positive to say
about.
Pope Francis says that there is not any room for
“fundamentalism ” in Christianity…
Following his first visit to the Middle East as
pope last month, the pontiff criticized
fundamentalism in Christianity, Islam and
Judaism as a form of violence.
“A fundamentalist group, even if it kills no
one, even it strikes no one, is violent. The
mental structure of fundamentalism is
violence in the name of God.”
But exactly what is “fundamentalism”?
The following is the definition that Google gives
when you do a search…
“a form of a religion, especially Islam or
Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in
the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.”
So is Pope Francis rejecting those Christians that
believe in a strict, literal interpretation of the
Bible?
And precisely what is his overall agenda?
Why has he been working so hard to reach out to
other major religions all over the planet?

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/pope-francis-and-shimon-peres-discuss-the-establishment-of-a-united-nations-of-religions#

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Let it be So

Global organization of religions proposed to counter terrorism

By CNA Vatican Observer, Andrea Gagliarducci

Vatican City, Sep 9, 2014 / 01:14 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- In a recent meeting with Pope Francis, former Israeli president Shimon Peres suggested forming an[b] “Organization of United Relations”[/b] to counter those who use religion for terroristic aims.

Peres, who stepped down as president of Israel in July, met with Pope Francis for 45 minutes and suggested that the Pope guide his proposed international organization.

The former president was one of the main characters of the invocation for peace in the Middle East held in the Vatican Gardens June 8, and Pope Francis holds him in great esteem.

Though Peres is no longer Israeli president, Pope Francis referred to him during the Gaza crisis, reportedly phoning him.

Peres’ trip to Rome shows his desire to remain a player in the Middle East peace process.

In an interview granted to the Italian weekly “Famiglia Cristiana” on the eve of his visit to Pope Francis, Peres stressed that the “United Nations are now out of time. We now need an Organization of United Religions.”

According to Peres, this organization would be[b] “the best way to contrast with terrorists who kill in the name of their faith.”
[/b]
Pope Francis listened to Peres’ proposal “with attention, though he has not made any personal commitment,” Fr. Federico Lombardi, director of the Holy See press office, told journalists.

Peres also maintained that “as there is a United Nations charter, a Charter of United Religions should be drafted” in order to “state in the name of all faiths that slaughtering people, and committing mass killings, has nothing to do with religion.”

According to Fr. Lombardi, Pope Francis told Peres “there are Holy See branches” working in these fields, including the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and that for interreligious dialogue, and he referred him to them.

The Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue issued a strongly-worded declaration in August, following the expansion of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), calling on all religious leaders, those of Islam in particular, to address and condemn the caliphate’s acts of terror.

The week before the Pope Francis’ trip to Jordan and Israel, Cardinal Tauran, president of the pontifical council, visited Jordan and issued a common document of solidarity together with Prince El Hassan bin Talal, founder of the Jordan Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies.

Bin Talal traveled to Rome Sept. 4, and met with Pope Francis after Peres.

During their 30-minute meeting, bin Talal presented the center’s activities to the Pope, putting an emphasis on the common ground of the Golden Rule and showing Jordan’s efforts in building peace in the region.

Fr. Lombardi stated that the Jordanian prince also showed the Pope the possibilities of collaboration in activities of solidarity in a globalized world.

In September, Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, brother of bin Talal, sponsored a summit of Christian leaders in the Middle East convoked by King Abdullah II to address the widespread emergencies facing Christians in the region; Jordan is widely seen as a protector of Christians in the area.

Abdullah and bin Muhammad met with Pope Francis April 7 to indicate Jordan’s full support for his visit to the Holy Land.

It is likely that the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue continue this particular dialogue with Jordan, while the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace will be charged with preparing a dossier on an “Organization of United Religions.”

The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace has voiced several times in recent years, in speeches and documents, their concern for the crisis of the United Nations and the need to reform the organization.

The talks between Peres and the Vatican may tend toward this particular issue.

Peres' proposal is not, however, unprecedented.

There have been several attempts to create a global dialogue of faiths, most of them referring to the meetings of the “Parliament of the World’s Religions.”

The first of these meetings took place in Chicago in 1893, under the name of World’s Parliament of Religions.

The centenary of their first meeting was celebrated in 1993 in Chicago. The tone of the meeting was set by a document, “Towards a Global Ethic: an Initial Declaration,” mainly drafted by the controversial theologian Hans Kung.

The next meeting of the “Parliament of the World’s Religions” will take place in the United States in 2015.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/global-organization-of-religions-proposed-to-counter-terrorism-45372/

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They say no Fundamentalist. So no fox and no wolf. It is all Lamb. Jesus Christ is coming! Their new Bible(Deliberations) will be written in Hebrew, Latin and English, 'cos Canterbury will be involved, no doubt about that. Nigerian Catholics, Protestants, and non fundamentalist Penticostals should start observing to ensure that homosexuality, lesbianism and all those ill conceived ideas are not inserted in the new book of Promise.

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