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Saudis Underwrite Organization to Bring World’s Religions Under One Roof
Beliefnet.com ^ | 10/14/2011 | Rob Kerby

Posted on 10/15/2011 3:17:11 PM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is financing a new organization designed to bring all the world’s religions together.

“The organization hopes to prevent conflict through interfaith dialogue,” writes Spencer Kimball for the German news site Deutsche Welle. ”The foreign ministers of Austria, Saudi Arabia and Spain signed the founding treaty of a new international organization designed to foster dialogue between the world’s major religions on Thursday.”

“The thesis is valid that world peace cannot exist without peace between the world’s major religions,” Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said during the signing ceremony in Vienna, according to Deutsche Welle:

"The King Abdullah Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue, initiated and financed largely by Saudi money, is set to have its seat in Vienna. Plans envision an organization with a governing body composed of 12 representatives from the world’s five largest religions.

"The governing body is set to be staffed by two Muslims (Sunni and Shiite), three Christians (Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox), a Buddhist, a Hindu and a Jew. The organization will also have a consulting body with 100 representatives from the five world religions plus other faiths as well as academics and members of civil society.

"Austria’s Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger said that the organization’s structures are designed to ensure that none of the represented religions dominates the organization. The three founding states are also open to the membership of other countries, according to Spanish Foreign Minister Trinidad Jimenez Garcia-Herrera.

"Saudi King Abdullah initiated the idea for the center after visiting Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican in 2007, the first Saudi monarch to do so. Shortly thereafter, King Abdullah stated that Christians and Muslims should offer a common message of peace to humanity.

"Abdullah then initiated an interfaith dialogue in Mecca in 2008 followed by a second meeting in Madrid with Jewish representation. A third meeting took place in Vienna’s Hofburg in 2009, where the concept of the organization was agreed upon.

"The Initiative of Liberal Muslims protested Thursday’s signing ceremony in Vienna, saying that the center was an attempt by Saudi Arabia to spread a conservative form of Islam."

The idea is not new. In 2003, the Christian Broadcasting Network reported on a UN-sponsored summit of the world’s religions.

“A one world government and a one world religion — it may just sound like fiction from the popular Left Behind novel series,” reported Wendy Griffith for CBN News. “But some Christians say this scenario may be closer than most people think. Earlier this fall in Geneva, hundreds of spiritual and religious leaders met for a peace summit. And although all the major faiths were there, including some who claim to represent Christianity, it was clear that Jesus was not invited.”

To say that many Christians do not welcome the notion of a one-world religion would be an incredible understatement. Just in recent weeks, longtime TV prophecy preacher Jack Van Impe ended decades of broadcasting on the Trinity Broadcasting Network — charging that popular author and pastor Rick Warren has been too cozy with Muslims. Van Impe charged that the intent is a merger of Islam and Christianity — Chrislam. Warren scoffs at the notion, saying that he supports a Christian-Muslim dialogue — and that Christians are required to love all Muslims and win them to Jesus.

In 1997 another conference raised alarms.

“Nearly 200 delegates wrapped up a week-long interfaith meeting at Stanford on Friday, predicting they had given birth to a movement as well as a spiritual institution: the United Religions,” reported the California newspaper San Jose Mercury’s religion and ethics writer Richard Scheinin. “The ‘spiritual United Nations,’ as some have referred to it, would be a world assembly for humanity’s myriad spiritual traditions. The international ‘summit conference’ brought together delegates from every continent to inaugurate formal efforts to figure out the organization’s structure and mission and launch a charter-writing process. After several years of talking, the initiative’s planners had finally gotten down to business.

“‘You are deputized!’ the Rev. William E. Swing, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of California, told delegates as they prepared to go home. ‘Tell the people that there is a United Religions, and that somewhere in the world, it is beginning to happen: that the religions are going to have an oasis where they can talk about peace.’”

So, will it happen this time?


TOPICS: Current Events; General Discusssion
KEYWORDS: jihadists; oneworldreligion; religionofpieces; saudiarabia; terrorists
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1 posted on 10/15/2011 3:17:16 PM PDT by GiovannaNicoletta
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To: GiovannaNicoletta

Bookmark for later reading..


2 posted on 10/15/2011 3:19:14 PM PDT by smvoice (The Cross was NOT God's Plan B.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Everything we need to know about Saudi Arabia we learned on 9/11/2001.

Thanks GiovannaNicoletta.


3 posted on 10/15/2011 3:21:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: GiovannaNicoletta

The Islamics are at war with all of the rest of the world, why should there be a dialogue for peace with them?


4 posted on 10/15/2011 3:22:27 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: SunkenCiv

Islam is at war with the world, the only thing this is about is terms for surrender.


5 posted on 10/15/2011 3:24:06 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: GiovannaNicoletta

Islam is the best Islam!


6 posted on 10/15/2011 3:31:59 PM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2011)
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To: GiovannaNicoletta

Ah yes, one, big, Islamic roof.


7 posted on 10/15/2011 3:32:01 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: GiovannaNicoletta

2Co 6:11 O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.
2Co 6:12 Ye are not straitened in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels.
2Co 6:13 Now for a recompence in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.
2Co 6:14 Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
2Co 6:15 And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? 2Co 6:16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
2Co 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,



1Co 2:5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
This talk is very relevant for today
Chuck Missler Avi Lipkin Sleeping In America Session 02 Islamic Threats And The Future
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p1LmWWILgA&feature=related (this is part two of the talk but you can find part one just below)
Chuck Missler Avi Lipkin Sleeping In America Session 01 5 Deceptions of Islam

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiyh23MaVg4&feature=related
8 posted on 10/15/2011 3:35:49 PM PDT by Lera
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To: GiovannaNicoletta

Another sign that the end is near.


9 posted on 10/15/2011 3:40:42 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: GiovannaNicoletta

I re-read the article substituting ‘Islam’ for ‘peace’ in each instance. I roared with laughter . . . as I’m sure Prince Faisal and King Abdullah did.


10 posted on 10/15/2011 3:41:18 PM PDT by Oratam
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To: GiovannaNicoletta

Hmmmm....not going to read this tripe...but, just wondering if they said they were going to allow Christian Churches in Saudi Arabia...or Bibles, per chance? /sarc


11 posted on 10/15/2011 3:43:00 PM PDT by goodnesswins (My Kid/Grandkids are NOT your ATM, liberals! (Sarah Palin))
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To: AngieGal

ping


12 posted on 10/15/2011 3:43:34 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: GiovannaNicoletta
Saudi contributions to peace among religions.


13 posted on 10/15/2011 3:48:25 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember
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To: GiovannaNicoletta

Hey, Prince Saud!

Call me when there are a cathedral and a synagogue in Mecca.


14 posted on 10/15/2011 3:55:45 PM PDT by paterfamilias
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To: GiovannaNicoletta

Good grief, are there seven hills in Vienna?


15 posted on 10/15/2011 3:58:04 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: GiovannaNicoletta

>>”The governing body is set to be staffed by two Muslims (Sunni and Shiite), three Christians (Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox), a Buddhist, a Hindu and a Jew.

Not even bothering to invite the Protestants, are they? Perhaps they did and all the RSVP said was “John 14:6. Nuff said!”


16 posted on 10/15/2011 4:01:09 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (The solution to fix Congress: Nuke em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure!)
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To: Bryanw92

I suspect the lone representative of Judaism is of the suicidal Abe Foxman variety, too.


17 posted on 10/15/2011 4:03:42 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: goodnesswins

>>...but, just wondering if they said they were going to allow Christian Churches in Saudi Arabia...or Bibles, per chance?

I know you put the /sarc tag on, but we both know how this would work. One Global Church, with Allah and Mohamed at the top and Jesus listed as the “greatest of all prophets before Mohamed”. To all the muzzies and the people who support this: “Count me out!”


18 posted on 10/15/2011 4:06:58 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (The solution to fix Congress: Nuke em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure!)
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To: GiovannaNicoletta
The experience that I've had with "Interfaith" groups were that they were either Lefty or Muslim supported vehicles to undermine traditional Christian faith.

Saudi money could buy a lot of influence over many Christian "leaders".

19 posted on 10/15/2011 4:09:35 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (When you've only heard lies your entire life, the truth sounds insane.)
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To: GiovannaNicoletta

Go to Hell, Wahabbis.


20 posted on 10/15/2011 4:51:14 PM PDT by onedoug (lf)
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