Saturday, November 05, 2016

Rio’s evangelical new mayor to celebrate victory in Israel


Rio’s evangelical new mayor to celebrate victory in Israel

Marcelo Crivella to meet with Netanyahu and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat next week, Brazilian media reports

JTA
Comment by Julio Severo: Mr. Crivella, who is a former bishop of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), was never able to show a solid stance against anti-“homophobia” bills and he was very close to the former socialist President Dilma Rousseff. And his denomination is shamefully known for being pro-abortion and, as far as prophecies and revelations are concerned, cessationist. I hope Crivella may have changed and be now a “black sheep” in the UCKG. But, despite of weaknesses, he has a good quality: He is pro-Israel. The known conservative website Breitbart reported about Crivella’s intent to celebrate his victory in Israel. Breitbart mentioned a report from the Israeli newspaper Times of Israel, fully reproduced below:
RIO DE JANEIRO — The mayor-elect of Rio de Janeiro, a prominent evangelical leader, reportedly will be going to Israel to celebrate his victory.
Marcelo Crivella, who was elected Sunday, will meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat next week, several Brazilian media outlets reported, citing the mayor-elect himself as the source. However, the information has not been confirmed by Israeli officials.
“Marcelo Crivella, who has been to Israel nearly 35 times, is a great friend of the Jewish community and the State of Israel,” Israel’s Rio-based honorary consul Osias Wurman, a former president of Rio’s Jewish federation, told JTA. “I hope he will strengthen a lot of the cooperation between Rio and the State of Israel, in particular in the areas of security, culture and technology.”
Brazil’s most influential weekly magazine reported Monday that the Jewish vote from one of Rio’s wealthiest neighborhoods was key in electing Crivella. The massive support could have been a reaction to Crivella’s opponent’s party members, who recently referred to the late Israeli President Shimon Peres as an “ideologue of terrorism” and, a year ago, burned the Israeli flag in public.
Crivella easily beat his far-leftist opponent Marcelo Freixo with 59 percent of the vote in the municipal runoff election in Brazil’s second largest city.
In January, when Brazil rejected Israel’s choice of a former settler leader as ambassador to Brasilia, Crivella said it conveyed a pro-boycott message. The position has since remained vacant.
“Rejecting the ambassador can convey a message that Brazil supports BDS,” Crivella wrote in an op-ed published in the influential Brazilian newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, referring to the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. “Leaving Israel without an ambassador won’t help anyone.”
Crivella called Dani Dayan “a prepared diplomat selected legitimately by a friendly country. The fact that he defends settlements in the West Bank is a weak motive for such discourtesy and so much political inability.”
In his article, Crivella noted the deep ties between Brazil and Israel, recalling that Brazilian diplomat Oswaldo Aranha presided over the United Nations session that created the State of Israel in 1948.
In November, the senator joined some 1,500 demonstrators at a pro-Israel rally in Rio de Janeiro. Days before, during a major TV show, he had called for “all friends of Israel” to attend the rally.
Crivella is a nephew of Edir Macedo, founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God some 40 years ago. He also has played a pivotal role in the church gathering some 5.2 million followers at 13,000 temples across Brazil and worldwide. The church owns the second-largest TV station in Brazil, as well as a broad conglomerate of newspapers and radio stations.
By assuming the chair of mayor of Rio on Jan. 1, Crivella will interrupt his second eight-year term in the Senate.
Brazil, which has the world’s largest Catholic population — some 65% of its population of 204 million — is home to some 120,000 Jews.
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Tuesday, November 01, 2016

Brazil’s Mackenzie Presbyterian University and Its Gender Ideology Professor


Brazil’s Mackenzie Presbyterian University and Its Gender Ideology Professor

By Julio Severo
Brazilian news website UOL, in its section of child issues, addressed the gender ideology in the report titled “Nome neutro não basta para uma criação sem estereótipo de gênero, mas ajuda” (A Neuter Name Is Not Enough for an Upbringing Without Gender Stereotype, But It is Helpful).
The title opens no room for doubt that, for the homosexual militancy, to develop names’ neutrality for children is a first, insufficient step, by acknowledging a need for a broader fight. The article was also published by the Patrícia Galvão Institute, a Brazilian institution notorious for its pro-abortion advocacy.
The first paragraph in the text is excessively sentimental and clearly seeks to seduce readers, by saying: “Mica is a two-year old child and only the caregivers, as the biological parents prefer to be addressed, and the child know his sex. One day, Mica wears a pink flounced dress and, in the other day, he wears a blue Bermuda shorts. Except for the appearance, even his name does not betray his birth gender, because [the caregivers] chose a name sounding neuter.”
The child, who suffered the imposition of a neuter name, was called Mica, by parents who prefer equally the neuter names “caregivers,” instead of parents.
By the imposition of confused parents, the child is adapted and indoctrinated to greater sexual confusions, including regarding sex roles.
UOL also presents another couple who was ideologically indoctrinated into imposing sexual neutrality on their small son. The mother says, “Every day, when he goes to school, I need to talk to him again on how boy’s and girl’s toys do not exist. There are only children’s toys.”
Perhaps the worst part in the report was the official seal from a professor in the most important Calvinist university in Brazil.
According to UOL, Marcelo Moreira Neumann, a professor of psychology at the Mackenzie Presbyterian University, in São Paulo, Brazil, and one of the authors of the study “Homophobic Bullying and School Performance,” said that neutrality in the registry would effectively facilitate the lives of people not identifying themselves with their birth gender.
“The individual would not have to go through a juridical process if he is a transgender and he would not face shameful situations regarding his name,” said the specialist.
A neutrality in the registry would effectively facilitate the homosexual activism’ objectives.
Neumann’s sheer presence as professor at a Protestant university is a sign of victory for homosexual militants and defeat for evangelicals, who should evangelize, not hire, propagandists of the gender ideology.
When Neumann chose the designation in the UOL report of “Mackenzie professor,” he fatally compromised the institution, which, because it is openly confessional (Mackenzie PRESBYTERIAN University), chose to hire a professor who is a gender agenda militant. The case is not that he deserves to be fired from Mackenzie. He never deserved to be hired.
The hired individual is not to blame. The contractor, which has poorly chosen its job applicants, is to blame.
Actually, Mackenzie has a big name in Brazil, and this name has been flaunted by pro-abortion, Marxist and homosexualist professors advocating their ideological evils.
What is fascinating is that Mackenzie, with all its Calvinist confession, and Calvinist leaders who have decision power to stop all this mess, are very fast and sharp to attack the conservative growth produced by neo-Pentecostals in Brazil, as reported recently by the Islamic news website Al Jazeera, where a Mackenzie professor criticized the neo-Pentecostal growth leading the Brazilian politics to the Right. But they have not the same power against real threats in their own institution.
What expect from a Calvinist institution that puts to shame the Christian witness with professors who attack conservatism, praise the gender ideology, abortion and Marxism?
Portuguese version of this article: O Mackenzie e seu professor de ideologia de gênero
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Monday, October 31, 2016

Victory of Marcelo Crivella for Rio Mayor Astonishes Conservatives in Brazil


Victory of Marcelo Crivella for Rio Mayor Astonishes Conservatives in Brazil

By Julio Severo
Being used to the shamefully pro-abortion stances of Bishop Edir Macedo, the founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), it was a big surprise, for me and other Brazilian pro-life leaders, to see the candidate for Rio de Janeiro mayor, Marcelo Crivella, delivering a speech after his election Sunday honoring the constituents who chose him. Crivella is a Macedo’s relative and a former UCKG bishop.
Marcelo Crivella
In a Facebook vídeo, Crivella said that the constituents’ choice of him was a “No” to abortion, a “No” to drug liberation and a “No” to gender ideology. This public acknowledgement was very important, because elected candidates today have no interest in citizens’ concerns. Crivella, even being a moderate socialist, had this concern.
In fact, the rival candidate promised to promote the abortion, drug and gender ideology. He was a radical socialist.
To bring to a good end, Crivella prayed the Lord’s Prayer with Catholics, evangelicals and people of other religions, not without firstly showing his gratitude to Pastor Silas Malafaia, the Catholic Church, Apostle Valdomiro Santiago of God’s Power World Church and International Grace Church, of R. R. Soares, for their support.
A moderate socialist, who esteems Christian values and respects citizens’ pro-life and pro-family will is much more necessary and important than atheistic socialists who run over the people’s will and despise God’s will.
The socialist or Marxist ideology, when handled by non-Christians, produces death. When handled by an evangelical as Martin Luther King (who was a Social Gospel adherent), produces apparently good social results, with consequences hard to measure, but never blatantly lethal as a total atheistic socialism.
This does not make the socialist ideology good, but the Gospel always mitigates socialism’s malignancy.
My will was for Rio and the whole Brazil to have real Christian conservatives ruling, but if God wanted a moderate socialist who respects Christian values, we should praise Him. At least, he is more open for dialogue than a stubborn atheistic socialist candidate.
A conservative tsunami is sweeping Brazil. According to the British newspaper Financial Times, “Brazil’s Evangelicals Push Politics to the Right.”
Financial Times said that the massive evangelical growth in Brazil is producing a swerve to the Right. The victory of Marcelo Crivella for Rio mayor is its evidence. The swerve to the Right is benefitting evangelical candidates as Crivella, who were not much conservative, but the swerve is producing miracles.
The swerve has everything to do with neo-Pentecostals. “Christian Century” magazine said, “Neo-Pentecostals have led the evangelical boom and have uniquely contributed to the development of an evangelical political ideology.”
In his speech of victory, Crivella began very well and very humble. May God help him to remain so. Brazil needs such courage. If he remains so, he easily reaches Brazil’s presidency.
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Friday, October 28, 2016

Right Wing Watch, of People for the American Way, After Julio Severo, Again…


Right Wing Watch, of People for the American Way, After Julio Severo, Again…

By Julio Severo
Right Wing Watch, a major American socialist group, has “exposed” me this week, again, to its U.S. leftist audience for politically incorrect views. 
Right Wing Watch said:
Julio Severo proclaims that “neocon Hillary and her Catholic vice want to purge America from real Christian conservatives …The real Founding Fathers of America, including the first American president George Washington, were white, Protestant and conservative. They were not pro-abortion, pro-sodomy and neocon. They would never support neocon Hillary.”
Right Wing Watch exposed, at the same time, Tony Perkins and Matt Barber just for expressing conservative views hated by the U.S. left.
Other prominent conservative leaders frequently attacked by Right Wing Watch are: Scott Lively, Pat Robertson, Peter LaBarbera, Linda Harvey, Bill Federer, Michael Savage, Alex Jones, Joseph Farah, Jerry Falwell Jr., Jane Chastain, Erik Rush, Bryan Fischer, Michele Bachmann, James Dobson, Dinesh D’Souza, Family Research Council, Barbara Simpson, Mat Staver and many others.
This is not the first time Right Wing Watch exposed me. Earlier this month Right Wing Watch said:
Matt Barber’s BarbWire website posted a story on Monday by frequent contributor Julio Severo, who was alarmed by a “bisexual community briefing” at the White House last month and, in particular, the speech of a self-described bisexual Sioux man who began his presentation by calling on “the Great Spirit, Wakan Tanka, to guide our words and thoughts so that we can speak true and strong.”
In a column titled “Bisexual Indian Invokes Demons At White House,” Severo wrote that the man had invoked “homosexual spirits,” thereby infesting the White House with demons that can only be expelled by “people who know and use the authority of Jesus’ name.”
“A homosexual culture is a culture of demon possession,” he wrote. “Has the White House turned into a haunt of demons?”
The prominent atheistic website Patheos also criticized my Christian view on demons. They do not believe in any God and demon activity in this world. In an article titled “The White House Must Be Exorcised Of Bisexual Native American Demons, Says Christian Writer,” Patheos said, “Severo described the spirits/gay demons as being ‘invisible, lethal and destructive’ — which is fascinating given that, as far as anyone knows, no one has ever actually been murdered by one…”
The Patheos article generated 110 comments from raging atheists against Severo.
In another post this month, Right Wing Watch said: “Julio Severo warns that if ‘Hillary is elected, everyone in the United States and around the world will pay a high cost for her aggressive abortion and sodomy agenda.’”
They also “exposed” in September 28, 2015:
Finally, Julio Severo is not happy with the nomination of Eric Fanning to serve as Secretary of the Army: “I am sure that in Obama’s and Fanning’s case, the Father of America would approve sentence on them and he would treat, with abhorrence and detestation, their sodomy and sodomy advocacy as an infamous crime. In the least, Obama would be expelled from the U.S. presidency and Fanning would be expelled from Army, both with dishonor, never to return. Both have committed treason against the Father of America.”
They also “exposed” me in June 30, 2015:
Julio Severo warns that “homosexuality brought destruction to Sodom, and it will bring destruction to any city or superpower embracing it. A remnant of Christians faithful to God should warn about the danger of sodomy and support efforts to protect children and their families from it.”
In June 18, 2015, Right Wing Watch again “exposed” me by saying:
Finally, Julio Severo wants to see Scott Lively appointed “as a U.S. Special Envoy for the Human Rights of Children and their Protection against the LGBT Agenda.”
Again, Right Wing Watch read my politically incorrect view on Barbwire.
What does Right Wing Watch, which is owned by People for the American Way, want?
According to WND, People for the American Way (PFAW) is “an atheist socialist organization which, through publications like its ‘Right Wing Watch,’ dedicates itself to the destruction of conservatives in general.”
According to its website, Right Wing Watch has a special mission to attack conservatives opposed to the gay agenda, abortion and Muslim ideology.
Right Wing Watch has “exposed” my view other times too, and I answered here: “People for the American Way’s Leftist Diatribe Against a Brazilian Conservative.”
What do they intend to do?
In 2011, WND had reported on surveillance by the Homeland Security Department against my blog. What did they intend to do?
In the same year, WND reported in a headline on PayPal cutting my account after a campaign by a U.S. homosexual organization.
Why is Goliath (Right Wing Watch, Homeland Security Department, etc.) monitoring and worried about a small David?
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Financial Times: Brazil’s Evangelicals Push Politics to the Right


Financial Times: Brazil’s Evangelicals Push Politics to the Right

By Julio Severo
A recent report from the British newspaper Financial Times (FT) accurately said that Brazil’s evangelicals are pushing politics to the right, but it used an inaccurate example: Marcelo Crivella.
FT said, “An evangelical missionary in Africa for several years, Brazilian senator Marcelo Crivella once described Catholics and other Christian denominations as demonic and condemned homosexuality as a terrible evil. Such opinions — outlined in his book documenting his time in Africa — would raise eyebrows coming from any politician. But Mr Crivella, a gospel singer from Brazil’s evangelical Universal church, is the overwhelming favourite to become the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, one of the Americas’ most racially and socially diverse cities.”
FT then says, “His imminent victory in second-round elections on 30 October reflects the emergence of an evangelical bloc that is driving Brazilian politics to the right, analysts say, and is set to become more powerful and influential.”
Even though Crivella is being helped by the emergence of a powerful Brazilian right energized by evangelicals and their pro-family activism, he and his church have stances hardly resembling conservative or right-wing stances. In the Brazilian Senate floor in 2007, then Senator Crivella boldly said, “The Gospel is the most communist handbook that exists.”
In communist ideas, he does not represent most Brazilian evangelicals, who are conservative, even though most Catholic bishops would agree with him. And the Brazilian evangelical Right does not represent him.   
He is a relative of Bishop Edir Macedo, the founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG). Macedo has been notorious for his opposition to pro-life causes, conservatives and the gift of prophecy. In his 2007 official biography, he said, “I support abortion, yes. The Bible also does it… A woman needs to have the right to choose.”
Crivella’s history includes his role as a UCKG bishop.
When the socialist administration of impeached President Dilma Rousseff wanted to pass a anti-“homophobia” bill that would endanger religious freedom in Brazil, Crivella did not know if he should side with his socialist ally Rousseff or conservative evangelicals.
Even so, the Financial Times, pretending impartiality, presented the opposing view of Jean Wyllys, the only openly gay member of the Brazilian Congress who is a lawmaker from the leftist Socialism and Liberty party. In the FT report, Wyllys, who supports homosexual indoctrination of children and their annihilation through legal abortion, is quoted as saying: “It’s not enough for them to evangelise — they also want to influence the law.”
In Wyllys’ view, only his homosexual activism should direct laws. Christians should be banned.
FT acknowledges that the evangelical bloc, represented especially by the Evangelical Parliamentary Caucus, is an influential power in the Brazilian Congress and that “it played a key role in the impeachment of leftist former president Dilma Rousseff.” In an April report titled “President’s Impeachment Shows Growing Evangelical Power in Brazil,” CBN had also acknowledged it.
FT says that in the 513-seat lower house, the House of Representatives, evangelical politicians form the “evangelical bloc,” accounting for a total of 199 seats.
FT said that the impeachment itself was led by one of the Congress’ most prominent evangelical leaders, Eduardo Cunha, then house speaker, previously known for championing bills against the gay agenda and abortion. Yet, FT reminds that he was arrested in relation to a corruption scandal at Petrobras, the state-owned oil company — a scandal that has engulfed the most powerful Brazilian socialists who were involved in larger corruption cases.
“The rise of evangelical politicians reflects in part demographic changes in Brazil. While still home to the world’s largest population of Catholics, the last Brazilian census in 2010 showed that evangelical churchgoers had risen to 22.2 per cent of the population from 15.4 per cent a decade earlier,” said FT.
U.S. magazine Christian Century seems to agree with FT by saying, “Some of the most vocal politicians in favor of the impeachment were evangelical leaders. In 2010, 44 million Brazilians, or about 22 percent of the entire population, identified themselves as evangelical or Protestant, and that growth has led to political influence. Neo-Pentecostals have led the evangelical boom and have uniquely contributed to the development of an evangelical political ideology.”
“Their growing influence is causing some concern,” said the Islamic news site Al Jazeera.
“The growth in evangelical Christianity is taking place without a deep discussion of the values enshrined in our historical character,” said Rogerio Baptistini, of Mackenzie Presbyterian University, a mixed liberal and conservative Calvinist institution that does not accept the neo-Pentecostal growth.
“We are an open and tolerant society, but this sudden growth threatens rationality,” added Baptistini, according to Al Jazeera.
If Marcelo Crivella would depend on communism, which he praised, to be the next mayor of Rio de Janeiro, he would surely lose votes from most evangelicals. But he is facing a more radical socialist opponent. FT says, “In Rio de Janeiro, better known for its city beaches crowded with scantily clad bathers than its deeply Catholic Portuguese past, polls suggest that Mr Crivella is leading with 46 per cent support, compared with 29 per cent for his rival, leftist candidate Marcelo Freixo.”
FT said, “Mr Crivella has sought to distance himself from his more extreme statements. In his book, first published in 1999, Mr Crivella wrote that… public health could be improved by expelling the demons that caused disease. He said African religions were based on ‘evil spirits,’ a controversial claim in Brazil, where half of the population has some African blood.”
Even though half of the Brazilian population has some African blood, FT infers that there is an automatic obligation to portray and label blacks as members of African religions. Most Pentecostal churches in Brazil, including the Assemblies of God, which is the largest Brazilian evangelical denomination, have a membership and leadership of many blacks and people who have African blood.
“Mr Crivella has apologised profusely for what he wrote, saying the book was the work of a young missionary, ‘whose immature seal led him to commit this lamentable error.’ The book was published when he was 42. ‘I love Catholics, spiritualists, evangelicals, everyone. If I have on any occasion caused offence, I ask for pardon. The same in relation to homosexuality,’ he said,” according to the Financial Times.
Yet, Crivella has never apologized for praising communism, even though his candidacy is being propelled by conservative evangelicals who hate communism.
Will the emergence of a powerful Brazilian evangelical conservatism push Crivella to the right?
With information from the Financial Times, Christian Century and Al Jazeera.
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Monday, October 24, 2016

“The Purge: Election Year”: Horror Film Presents Plot to Take the White House


“The Purge: Election Year”: Horror Film Presents Plot to Take the White House

By Julio Severo
The storyline of the horror film “The Purge: Election Year,” released this year, was set in the White House as Senator Charlene Roan (actress Elizabeth Mitchell) is running for President of the United Stated of America.
Candidate Roan (who seems to purport to represent Hillary Clinton, who is also a former senator) has her campaign focused on eliminating the Purge, which is an annual 12-hour period that legalizes all sorts of crimes including murder, and all police and medical services are shut down in this day. However, the affluent oppose Roan’s campaign because they believe that the event eradicates the poor people.
The affluent are members of NFFA (New Founding Fathers of America), a party of white supremacists who resemble neo-Nazis. With rare exceptions in both sides, whites are oppressors and blacks and Latin American immigrants, who are oppressed, are the poor, defenseless and homeless, who can’t defend themselves and make for easy targets. NFFA wants blood; “Hillary Clinton” wants to hinder bloodshed.
Yet, the real Hillary has a political trail of “mysterious” deaths of people who threatened her political career. She is also credited as the responsible for the creation of ISIS, which has slaughtered thousands of Christians in the Middle East.
The attempt to portray Hillary as a social savior in the movie is a slap on reality. And the attempt to portray conservatives as blood-thirsty is irrational, because Hillary-created ISIS is the real bloody creature. And bloody is also her obsession to back the legal slaughter of thousands and thousands American and international babies through her insane abortion politics. This horror is worse than the macabre murders in the horror film “Purge.”
The NFFA members talk about God. “Hillary” and their band of oppressed do not talk about God.
Even though trying to stereotyping Christian conservatives as NFFA members, it fits only neoconservatives (also called neocons) in real life.
Neoconservatives are present in both the Democratic and the Republican Parties and their focus and priority is not to conserve pro-life, pro-family and Christian values. They want to conserve and expand the U.S. military and political hegemony around the world.
The real Hillary is a neocon. If the horror film “Purge” mirrored the reality, Hillary would be a NFFA member. Not only she is white, but she loves war and bloodshed of babies by abortion and of Christians through ISIS and other Islamic terror groups.
In the movie, there is a plot to assassinate her “Christian” conservative opponent, a male member of NFFA. But the well-behaved Hillary fights to save the life of the apparently “Republican” candidate, even though those plotting the murder are mostly oppressed blacks with the very good intent to get rid of a man who, if elected president, will keep bloodshed in society.
“Purge” ends with NFFA members bringing “Hillary” to a Mass for a ritualistic assassination by a priest. Even though evangelicalism is the main religious characteristic of the original Founder Fathers of America, in the movie Catholicism represents all Christians, and it is murderous, sadistic and against the oppressed. Catholicism was made the Christian bogeyman of the macabre show, perhaps because, like no other Christian church, Catholicism has been stained by the Inquisition and other evils.
But in real life, the opponent of Hillary, Donald Trump, is a Presbyterian. His vice-president is also an evangelical. And a Time magazine article, written by a Catholic leader, said that “Trump-Pence is the Most Anti-Catholic Republican Ticket in Modern History.” Trump does not fit NFFA: his political staff is strongly opposed to abortion, and he does not want war with Russia. He wants to fight anti-Christian ISIS.
Hillary Clinton fits NFFA. She wants the murder of the most innocent of the oppressed: the unborn baby. She wants war with Russia, which is fighting ISIS.
Her vice-president is a pro-abortion Catholic.
If Hillary is elected, a pro-abortion, pro-ISIS NFFA will be in charge of the United States, sadly with massive votes of oppressed blacks and Catholics who do not see they have been duped by deceptive ideologies not different from “Purge,” which reverses the reality.
Neocon Hillary and her Catholic vice-president want to purge America from real Christian conservatives. In this sense, the horror film “Purge” fits her campaign and ambitions.
The real Founding Fathers of America, including the first American president George Washington, were white, Protestant and conservative. They were not pro-abortion, pro-sodomy and neocon. They would never support neocon Hillary.
At last, the real horror is not the film and its blatant malicious characterization of Christian conservatives. It is the real Hillary herself.
With information from Christian Post and Christianity Today.
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Saturday, October 22, 2016

C. Peter Wagner, Pioneer in the Apostolic Movement and Pioneering Fighter Against Theology of Integral Mission, Goes on to Glory


C. Peter Wagner, Pioneer in the Apostolic Movement and Pioneering Fighter Against Theology of Integral Mission, Goes on to Glory

By Julio Severo
C. Peter Wagner, pioneer in the apostolic movement and pioneering fighter against Theology of Integral Mission (TIM), has gone home to be with the Lord. He was 86 years old, passing away on Friday.
C. Peter Wagner
Wagner was recognized as a leading authority in the fields of church growth and spiritual warfare. He was co-founder of World Prayer Center and was chancellor of the Wagner Institute in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He held graduate degrees in theology, missiology and religion from Fuller Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary and the University of Southern California.
Wagner served as a field missionary in Bolivia for 16 years and he taught on the faculty of the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Seminary for 30 years. He ministered extensively nationally and internationally from his home base in Colorado. He had written 70 books, including Prayer Shield, Territorial Spirits, and Apostles and Prophets.
He was an autobiography titled “Wrestling with Alligators, Prophets and Theologians: Lessons from a Lifetime in the Church — A Memoir,” kindly sent autographed by him to me years ago.
Wagner became famous as the leader of conservative theologians who opposed to left-wing theologians in the first Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in 1974. He fought TIM not only in Lausanne, but also in the first René Padilla congresses in Latin America, years before Lausanne. He was the first theologian to make resistance to TIM in Latin America.
In 2014, Lausanne paid Wagner’s resistance back in the same coin, by holding in Brazil a meeting of Lausanne leaders against Wagner and his apostolic movement. The meeting was led by TIM leaders, especially Rev. Valdir Steuernagel.
In 2013, C. Peter Wagner wrote the introduction of Julio Severo’s e-book “Theology of Liberation versus Theology of Integral Mission” (available for free download in this LINK), which addresses Theology of Integral Mission.
With information from Charisma.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Trump will meet with Putin before his inauguration


Trump will meet with Putin before his inauguration

By Julio Severo
In an interview Monday with talk-radio host Michael Savage, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said that if he wins in November, he might meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin prior to the inauguration in January.
Michael Savage and Donald Trump
He said, “If I win on Nov. 8, I could see myself meeting with Putin and meeting with Russia prior to the start of the administration.”
Trump noted relations with Russia are widely regarded as worse than at any time since the Cold War.
“You have potentially a really catastrophic situation here. I’ll be honest with you,” he continued.
“They say, ‘Oh well Russia loves Donald Trump and Putin loves Donald Trump,’” Trump told Savage. “They insult him constantly, no wonder he can’t stand Obama and Hillary Clinton.”
In his last debate with Hillary, Trump said, “She talks tough with Russia. She shouldn’t be talking so tough,” Trump said. “Frankly, if we got along with Russia and knocked out ISIS, that would be a good thing, not a bad thing.”
In an interview in August, Trump told Savage the policies of President Obama and Hillary Clinton toward Russia have prompted something “worse than a Cold War.”
“Many of his ideas came from my previous books. Everybody knows that,” Savage told WND in an interview.
Trump has been in conflict with neocons’ interests. It is no wonder that he has been reading Savage books: Savage has been exposing neocons.
See the Ukrainian case. While Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and George Soros were calling the Ukrainian revolution a people’s revolution, in a WND report Savage said,
“The situation in Ukraine has been painted as a conflict between Vladimir Putin’s Russia, the so-called bad guys, and Ukrainian rebels, the so-called good guys who seek to oust Russia from a position of influence in Ukraine and install a new government that will be responsive to the Ukrainian people. Don’t believe a word of it. The Ukrainian nationalists are fascists. Washington’s original purpose for staging a coup in Ukraine was to move Ukraine away from Russia and bring Ukraine into the European Union. In other words, the neocons and the bought-and-paid-for ‘moderates’ in the Obama administration wanted to wrest control of Ukraine from Putin’s hands and gain economic and energy control over the country. As Dr. Stephen F. Cohen has pointed out, Western nations, with the U.S. leading the way, have been provoking Putin for decades. We’ve expanded NATO to include former Soviet states – Ukraine looks like the next target – and we’ve attacked allies of Russia, including Libya and Iraq. The U.S. – along with other Western nations – through our incursions into the politics, economics and national security of Russia and several of its allies, has effectively caused the situation that is now unfolding in Ukraine. Cohen is right.”
Savage points that Obama and his neocons, not conservatives, created a revolution in Ukraine to draw it away from Russia and put it, eventually, into NATO’s orbit.
While Trump has praised Russia and his advisers were supporting pro-Russian forces in Ukraine, neocons have openly praised the Ukrainian revolution as the best democratic example against dictatorship. The Ukrainian revolution was the biggest Soros revolution, massively funded by him.
Obama and his neocons want Ukraine in NATO and are willing to go to war over it. In contrast, Trump has shown, so far, no willingness to follow neocon passions for war in Ukraine against Russia.
Last month, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko invited Trump for a meeting, but, according to DailyMail, “the Ukrainian government says the Republican candidate blew them off.”
Yet, Hillary Clinton met Poroshenko and promised him that she would stand with Ukraine against “Russian aggression.”
While Obama, Hillary and neocons want Ukraine in NATO’s orbit and they are using the Ukrainian situation to strengthen NATO, Trump has again been in conflict with their interests.
The best explanation about neocons’ intent was given by Savage, who said in WND:
“The neocons… thrive on military conflict. When the world is at war, the neocons and the defense contractors who work with them make enormous amounts of money. The neocons don’t care which side you’re on, as long as they can work with you to create a political situation that they can grow into a war from which they will profit.”
Savage is right. And Trump agrees with him. But neocon-minded individuals do not agree. The Trevor Loudon blog said,
“If Trump is elected, you will have the Russians… in the White House. Trump’s advisers are very connected to Vladimir Putin and Russia. Trump himself has many ties as well and is friends with Putin. This is why Putin will try to sabotage Clinton with leaked emails, etc.”
Trump’s approach to seek to get along with Russia and meet Putin is correct, but despised by neocons.
Ronald Reagan tried Trump’s approach in the past, when Russia was the Soviet Union and was officially atheistic and communist. In that time, America under Reagan officially valued the Bible and Christian values. Today, the U.S. government officially despises these values, while Russia has officially left atheism and has embraced its Orthodox Christian Church.
It impossible for socialists Hillary and Obama to get along with modern Russia, especially after Russians passed a law banning homosexual propaganda to children.
Yet, if it was possible for evangelical Reagan to seek to get along with Soviet atheistic leaders, why should not Trump be commended for seeking to get along with a non-atheistic Russia?
With information from WND (WorldNetDaily).
Portuguese version of this article: Trump se encontrará com Putin antes de sua posse
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