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February 2012

Sex trafficking victims reveal horror of witchcraft and torture being used to enslave women in Scotland: "Nine came from Africa, one from South America....She said: “I had to take the oath. I was given this mark on my hand. I was told that this mark, if you tell anyone what has transpired, you are going to die.... The main centres for sex trafficking are Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen... but it also touches small towns....[W]omen are trafficked from across the globe to Scotland but mainly from Nigeria, China and Brazil.... Women from Africa described their traffickers as powerful people within tribal communities who had connections with corrupt officials.... 'These women report being controlled using oaths or juju magic.'” See Post-Christian Culture Welcomes Witchcraft!

January 2012

Normalizing Necromancy: Tempting the Church to Talk with the Dead: "Welcome to the year 2012—the much-publicized year of the Mayan writings that prophesy the 'End of the World' as we know it. But what is our spiritual adversary really up to? And how does he attempt to accomplish his plan to infiltrate and overturn Biblical Christianity, replacing it with his 'new' worldview...."

Global Prayer Call for South Africa: "'The year-long ANC centenary celebrations, will be kick-started at the founding place of the ANC 100 years ago.... This very important event will be attended by Kings, Chiefs and Traditional Leaders and healers will also include the leaders of the African National Congress [ANC] and our allied partners.'

      "As a Christian... I believe that a large portion of the South African nation is already under spiritual bondage because of traditional practices. An interfaith vigil is planned for the 6th to invoke the spirits of ancestors and to dedicate South Africa to them. ... The rituals planned for the year will only enforce the witchcraft practices.... But this will not only affect the spiritual realm, practices such as muti killings through the harvesting of organs from life donors and animals will also increase. ....Now is the time to ...[for] intense spiritual warfare against the evil powers of darkness and spiritual wickedness in high places!" See Post-Christian Culture Welcomes Witchcraft!

December 2011

Child sacrificed, liver offered to gods: Indian police: "'The two men was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of killing the girl and offering her liver to the gods in a grisly tribal ceremony. ...The girl was murdered in a jungle district of Chhattisgarh that is a stronghold of rebel Maoists who have tapped into disaffection among local tribal groups. Human sacrifices occasionally make headlines in deeply religious and superstitious India, and usually occur in poor areas where some people revere practitioners of black magic." See Blending Witchcraft & "Christianity"

People traffickers 'flung 12 human sacrifices from Italy-bound boat in voodoo ritual to calm stormy seas': "Five people have been arrested on suspicion of murder after more than a dozen illegal immigrants [from Libya] were thrown from a boat in a 'voodoo ritual to calm stormy seas,' an Italian prosecutor revealed today. Survivors gave police an horrific account of how human 'sacrifices' were picked [by the Nigerian captain] from a ship crammed with 400 people after the engine failed....Witnesses described a number of women performing a macabre 'magic dance' before the victims were flung overboard to 'calm the seas and placate the devil'....

     "Prosecutor Ignazio Fonzo...said, 'the captain...was the leader of the rituals that began after the engine on the boat failed....'One man was selected taken down into the hold and beaten...and then thrown into the sea with his hands tied. 'As this happened prayers, chanting and dancing took place and...he was sacrificed to cast out demons and calm the seas. 'This happened several times.'"

     [Bringing vodoo to Europe [and also to USA] will surely draw new curious converts and lead to increased syncretism in post-Christian cultures.]

November 2011

Pregnant woman killed: 3 seek bail [South Africa]: "Three people accused of murdering and mutilating a pregnant woman will bring a bail application....The three accused were allegedly part of a syndicate under investigation for selling identification books to Lesotho citizens at the Ficksburg border.....A traditional healer told members of the syndicate that in order to make the investigation "disappear" it had to find a pregnant woman and remove the foetus while she was still alive. When they could not find a pregnant woman in Ficksburg, the group decided to go to Lesotho....They allegedly removed the foetus and her nails, eyes and tongue and drank her blood after a traditional healer allegedly stabbed her with a spear..... The traditional healer and a home affairs official, who were wanted in connection with the murder, were still at larg

North Miami Beach Police Employees Fired Over Santeria Curse On City Manager: "Torres and Rodriguez were caught plotting with a janitor to spread birdseed around the city manager's office, a police report says, in accordance with a Santeria ritual aimed at making an enemy "leave you alone.'...The cop had been raised in a family that practices Santeria.... Torres, who's been a NMB cop since 1987, said the ritual was 'religious' or 'superstitious' in nature and that she didn't see any harm in giving it a try.... After interviewing Torres and Rodriguez, the city fired both.....The pair can appeal their termination, and the case is sure to raise plenty of questions about freedom of religion....Local activists like Ernesto Pichardo have won numerous court battles to afford Santeria adherents the same First Amendment protections as other believers."

Air Force Academy adapts to pagans, druids, witches and Wiccans: "In the still of a cold November evening, a small gathering of pagans, led by two witches, begins preparations for the coming winter solstice. But these are not just any pagans, and this is not just any setting. They are future officers of the United States Air Force practicing their faith." See God's Warnings for our Times

African Blend of Witchcraft & "Christianity": "Unfortunately, few Africans [that she knew in Zimbabwe] are truly Christians. The problem stems from the fact that there is just too much of this 'cultural' (demon worship) approach to almost all aspects of life even amongst said Christians.... Wedding ceremonies usually have the marriage being consecrated to the ancestral spirits for blessings. Death ceremonies dedicate the soul into the hands of the ancestral spirits for safe travel into the hereafter. In every culture across the whole continent, business men usually have their businesses protected and flourish under the aid of demons." See Reviving Witchcraft 

Pope urges African bishops to combat witchcraft: "The heart of the baptised is sometimes shared between Christianity and traditional African religions,' the pope said in a meeting with visiting bishops from Angola....'The abominable effects are the marginalization and even the murder of children and the elderly (who are) condemned by the false precepts of witchcraft." See Reviving Witchcraft

Teen’s evil poetry, sketches scare family: "The family of a 14-year-old girl fear she may be part of a satanic cult after finding evil drawings and poems in her school books. And a local priest warns the girl is on the brink of being lost to the devil if she hasn’t already sold her soul to Satan. ....The teen’s concerned 57-year-old foster mother made the disturbing discovery....'I saw her book lying on the bed and when I opened it, this is what I found,' the mom says pointing to the twisted images and notes. Some are even written backwards, a trait of satanic messages. One poem reads: 'Lucifer was here and now he is gone... Satan is....” [It's best not to add more from this poem] See Reviving Witchcraft

October 2011

‘Satanic Sacrifice’: South African Teen Dies After Being Set Ablaze During Alleged Ritual: "The teen, Kirsty Theologo, perished just one week after authorities suspect that her friends covered her in gasoline and burned her alive. Court records say that Theologo and a 16-year-old friend were among eight young people.... Theologo was apparently tied up, doused in gasoline and a match was thrown at her. Some say she was intended to serve as a bizarre 'satanic sacrifice.'”

Girl set alight [on fire] in ‘satanic ritual’: "...the group of five boys and three girls knew one another well....Kirsty Theologo, 18, [in Johannesburg, South Africa] had petrol poured over her by friends. She was then set alight in what appears to be a satanic ritual. Kirsty suffered 75 percent burns -- mostly above her waist....[A] a third girl told them that the boys cut her hand and held it over a Bible so that the blood could soak it, while Kirsty was burnt."

Spiritual Warfare, Part 4: Reviving Witchcraft: "Feminist proponents of Wicca, or modern-day witchcraft, now can be found within the clergy promoting the cult of the Goddess in many  mainline Christian denominations."

     "Harry [Potter] is far from being a devil or a witch. Rather, says the Presbyterian minister... he actually is a Christ-like figure.... [He calls the books] 'a modern interpretation of the gospel.'"

     "The Complete Witches' Handbook. Everything you need to know....Over 200,000 sold!"

      "Villages...are gripped by fear. In playgrounds and on the roadside are posters warning of the danger of abduction by witch doctors for the purpose of child sacrifice. The ritual...was almost unheard of in [Uganda] until about three years ago, but it has re-emerged."

August 2011

 The Unseen Foe behind the Rising Evil: "We don't hear much about spiritual warfare these days. Most churches seem to ignore the reality of Satan and the depravity he inspires. God's warnings about compromise with a corrupt world simply don't fit the new image of Jesus as a gentle, tolerant, pluralistic helper.

     "Since the 18th century's birth of the 'Age of Reason,' an increasing number of 'enlightened' Western leaders and influential "change agents" have tried to discredit the Bible and silence Christian believers. More recently, a vast number of politicians, media masters and educators have joined the battles against Biblical truth and morality.

    "Karl Marx chose another way to distance himself from any Biblical accountability. He chose to believe in Satan, and he proved it in his writings. His dark poem Oulanem gives us a glimpse of the evil force behind his communist agenda:

     "If  there is a Something which devours,

      I'll leap within it, though I bring the world to ruins—

      The world which bulks between me and the abyss

      I will smash to pieces with my enduring curses."

Through the ages, God's Word has been warning us that people "depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons..." 1 Timothy. 4:1

 

Startling revelations from a Swiss banking insider: [Russian reporter interviews Swiss banker. The message seems true but I can't validate it] "Q: 'Can you tell us something about your involvement in the Swiss banking business?'

    "A:...We received several such hand written letters coming from foreign secret services giving the order to payout cash from secret accounts to fund revolutions or for the killing of people. I can confirm what John Perkins has written in his book “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”. There really exists just a system and Swiss banks are involved in such cases.... We had to pay on the instructions of foreign powers for the killing of persons who did not follow the orders of Bilderberg or the IMF or the World Bank for example.....

    "Q: Why do you feel the urge to say this now?

    "A: Because Bilderberg is meeting in Switzerland. Because the world situation is getting worse and worse. And because the biggest banks in Switzerland are involved in unethical activities....Basically it’s a robbery of everybody. I mean most normal people are paying taxes and abiding by the laws. What is happening here is complete against our Swiss values....They use huge amounts of money created out of nothing and they destroy our society and destroy the people world wide just for greed.....Its just the big ones who operate globally that are a problem.

     "...I think the Strauss-Kahn case is a good chance for us, because it shows these people are corrupt, sick in their minds, so sick they are full of vices.... Some of them like Strauss-Kahn rape women, others are sado maso, or paedophile and many are into Satanism. When you go in some banks you see these satanistic symbols, like in the Rothschild Bank in Zurich. These people are controlled by black-mail because of the weaknesses they have....

     "Q: Since Ackermann is in the steering committee of Bilderberg, do you think he is a big decision maker there?

     "Q: Thru exposure we could stop them? A: Yes, telling the truth. We are confronted with really ruthless criminals....They are ready and able to kill millions of people just to stay in power and in control.

     "Q: ...why [is] the mass media in the west...silent regarding Bilderberg? A: Because there is an agreement between them and the owners of the media....They buy them.

      "...You have the inner circle who are into Satanism and then there are the naive or less informed people. Some people even think they are doing something good, the outer circle....Bilderberg was founded by Prince Bernard, a former member of the SS and Nazi party and he also worked for IG Farben, who’s subsidiary produced Cyclone B. ...They worked both sides but really these people are fascists who want to control everything and everybody and who gets in their way is removed. ...The best way to stop them is to tell the truth, put the spot light on them. If we don’t stop them we will end up as their slaves." [Peter Odintsov Moscow, 5-30-11].  America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to The Order of Skull & Bones

July 2011

Occult healing.   Weighed and Found Wanting: Rick Warren’s Daniel Plan: "Occult/New Age doctors being invited into the church to teach Christians how to be healthy?... More than six thousand people attended the well promoted and carefully staged event....

     "Dr. Oz’s New Age affinity for psychics, spirit guides, past lives, and contacting the dead was showcased on his March 15, 2011 program...titled, 'Psychic Mediums: Are they the New Therapists?' The promo on his website read: 'Can talking to lost loved ones heal your grief? Hear why psychic John Edward believes you can talk to the dead.'
      "Dr. Oz was reported in one press release as stating: 'Reiki is one of my favorites, we’ve been using it for years in the Oz family, and we swear by it.' Dr. Oz is a personal practitioner of Transcendental Meditation....He has also practiced Yoga for over twenty years17 and is devoted to the New Age teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg....Dr. Oz wrote the Foreword to 'US'—a New Age book written by his wife Lisa, who is a Reiki Master—a book that opens with a quote on oneness by New Age patriarch Pierre Teilhard de Chardin." See Reiki Power and The Occult

Wheels and Wolves: "Erwin Watermeyer, an initiated Rosicrucian, stated in a Rosicrucian Digest article, 'Throughout his studies the student of mysticism meets manifold symbols. They face him from books and from temple walls.…'

    "Occult students are not the only ones who see 'manifold symbols.' ...all over the world, esoteric symbols are prominently displayed on temples, public buildings, educational institutes...and even money....Steeped in the philosophies of pagan mystery religions and secret societies, this neopagan foundation forms a spiritual alternative to the Biblical worldview, fully equipped with alternative histories, alternative ways of salvation, alternative gods..." See God's Warnings for our Times

[Video] Bohemian Grove mystery broken down Bohemian Grove mystery broken down: "...for two weeks every July since the 1880s, they have been filled with some of the most wealthy and powerful men in the world. Many of them arrive on their corporate jets at the nearby Sonoma County Airport....Access is by invitation only, and most pay more than $15,000 to attend. ...'Our concern is not what's going on inside the Grove, but what's happening outside the Grove with the people that are in here,' Brian Romanoff, a picketer, tells The History Channel. ....

     "Sonoma State University sociology professor Peter Phillips...was invited to attend for four days. He witnessed first-hand the opening event — the Cremation of Care, where the power elite leave their cares behind in a symbolic ceremony beneath Mollock the Owl. Jed Jenkel said he was a paid employee of the Grove and drove the horse and buddy that carried a casket during the ceremony."

June 2011

Nigerian 'baby factory' raided, 32 teenage girls freed: "We rescued 32 pregnant girls and arrested the proprietor who is undergoing interrogation over allegations that he normally sells the babies to people who may use them for rituals or other purposes.' ...Cases of child abuse and people trafficking are common in West Africa. Some children are bought from their families to for use as labour... Others are sold into prostitution while a few are either killed or tortured in black magic rituals." See Moral Corruption

Know Your Enemy: [United Religions, Theosophy, etc.] "Series exploring the coming New World Order from a Christian perspective. In this part, we wrap up our look at the United Nation's occult spiritual views based on the Mysteries and their attempt to use them to create a One World Religion." See Robert Muller, the UN and Theosophy

Air Force Academy Dedicates Chapel for Wiccans and Druids: "Add Wiccans and Druids to the list of faiths that have their own chapel at the Air Force Academy. A circle of stones around an altar was dedicated on a hilltop above the campus Tuesday with earth-centered prayer and speeches about religious liberty at the academy, a school that has long faced criticism as a bastion for evangelical Christianity." See Sorcery & witchcraft

Video series: Know Your Enemy (Part 66) - Occultist leader Alice A Bailey: "Alice Bailey, a prolific theosophist author, wrote, "There will not be any dissociation between the universal church, the sacred lodge of all true masons and the inner circles of the esoteric societies.... In this way the goals and work of the United Nations shall be solidified and a new church of God, led by all the religions and by all the spiritual groups, shall put an end to the great heresy of separateness.'...       "'Within the United Nations is the germ and seed of a great international and meditating reflective group -- a group of thinking and informed men and women in whose hands lies the destiny of humanity." See Theosophy and Global curriculum based on Robert Muller's Theosophy

More about Alice Bailey: Mind Change and Collective Service: [Under the heading: The Global Network] "Few have been more zealous for interfaith education and global service than former UN Under-Secretary Robert Muller. In 1989 UNESCO honored him with its Peace Education Prize, and his acceptance speech touted cosmic world education. That's not surprising, since his beliefs are largely based on books penned by Theosophist Alice Bailey, who received them from her 'spirit guide.'

      "Her message is now everywhere -- not because people read her books, but because her occult cosmology is promoted by Oprah Winfrey and communicated through a variety of popular New Age and 'New Spirituality' books. They include A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, The Secret by Rhonda Byrne and A Course in Miracles received from a 'spirit guide' called 'Jesus.'

     "In Education for a New Age, Bailey's spirit guide summarized the basic principle behind 'service learning:' '...Love of self (self-consciousness), love of those around us (group consciousness), become eventually love to the whole (God consciousness)." But this enticing formula is an illusion. It leads to conflict and hatred, not peace and self-giving love! See Scripture warnings about the Occult

Oklahoma City Contends with Atheists & Satanists: "A local club of atheists in Oklahoma City has erected a billboard to try and draw in new members....[It] recently received $5,250 from its national counterpart to erect the billboard along Interstate 44 near the Oklahoma State Fair... Its message reads simply, 'Don’t believe in God? Join the club.' Similar billboards were recently put up in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Texas and Washington.

    "...across town, another minority religious group is pushing the envelope.... A Satanic group called the Church of the IV Majesties has rented out a theater in the Oklahoma City C." See The Nature and Tactics of Satan

Satanists Rent Civic Center to Educate Public: "The leader of an Satanic church firmly planted in the Bible Belt has raised eyebrows by renting a theater in the Oklahoma City Civic Center for a ritual exorcism of God.... 'We don’t kill animals, we don’t kill children,' [said] James Hale, the church’s Lord High Master....

       "....seven members will take the stage Oct. 21 for the ritual... an exorcism to extract the gods of what he called the 'right handed path' or traditional religions, such as Christianity, Judaism and Islam." The Rising World Religion & Popular Occultism

May 2010

"New Light" and other labels for today's mysticism:Leonard Sweet "A quantum spirituality challenges the church to bear its past and to dare its future by sticking its big TOE into the time and place of the present. ... Then, and only then, will a New Light movement of 'world-making' faith have helped to create the world that is to, and may yet, be. Then, and only then, will earthlings have uncovered the meaning... of the last words poet/activist/contemplative/bridge between East and West Thomas Merton uttered: 'We are already one.... And what we have to recover is our original unity.'"

March 2010

Science and the Supernatural: "...the military and defense communities, including that of Russia and China, are not the only areas where science and the supernatural have combined. Psychic activity has also been used in the fields of archeology and criminology. Of these two, the use of psychics in criminology is probably the most widely known, fueled in large part by various television programs and publications that have highlighted the apparent successes and failures of criminal-clairvoyant investigations." See Spiritual Warfare

Voodoo practitioners: "'Kaaaa! Ka-ka-ka-ka,' she screams and stutters, her right arm bent in front of her. Around her, the other Voodoo worshippers look on, unsurprised but expectant as their ceremony reaches its climactic mid-point.... In their eyes, she is possessed by a spirit of the dead....

     "Voodoo is more assiduously followed by the poorest strata of Haiti's population - a stigmatised majority in the poorest country in the Americas. Some of it also is explained by the lingering fear generated by the use of Voodoo by Haiti's most notorious dictators, Francois 'Papa Doc' Duvalier and his son Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier, to repress the populace during their rule from the 1950s to mid 1980s. Today, Voodoo remains an official state religion, and it is estimated more than half of Haiti's population practises at least elements of it, sometimes with Catholicism." See Unequal Contenders in the Spiritual War

 

 

Lucifer worship - bringing humanity into the "light": "The 'divine plan for humanity' is the reason for rebuilding the world into a communitarian collective....The 'spiritual' belief behind the emerging global religion is in Lucifer, the Light Bringer.... The real 'experts' on our spiritual development know that our clinging to outdated religions and beliefs is a barrier to advanced human social evolution. They want us to stop thinking Satan is a conjurer and a liar too....

     "We must all be re-educated to regard Lucifer's disgrace and fall from Heaven as a 'sacrifice' akin to what Jesus sacrificed. An enlightened citizenry is the only way we can achieve our common destiny in 2020. This is the common purpose behind Common Purpose in the UK. This is the 'spirit of community' Communitarian Network guru Amitai Etzioni brought to the United States in 1959 ...In order to have a global system that operates on Utopian standards and norms, everyone on the planet must be made to think as one."

February 2010

Italy spooked by Paranormal Activity: "Paranormal Activity has lead to several people actually toppling off the edge of their seats. One 14-year-old girl in Naples had to be given oxygen by paramedics, she was in such a state. And now the fuss has reached the government..... One minister said the film trailer should not be aired on TV at a time when children could see it. A consumer group has threatened to go to court to get the film restricted to adults only.... Publicists for the film must be in horror heaven, given all the free publicity it's getting." See Toying with Death

In Internet Era, an Unwilling Lord for New Age Followers: "... in 1972, Mr. Creme prophesied the coming Maitreya as a messiah for all faiths called the World Teacher. Mr. Creme did not name the messiah, but he revealed clues that led his devotees to fire up their search engines on a digital scavenger hunt that would lead them to The One....

     "Share International’s beliefs are rooted in the Theosophical movement popular in Britain in the late-19th century; it later evolved into New Age beliefs..." See Star Wars Joins United Religions at the Presidio

Playtime for Kids and It's Called Divination: "So now ToysRus has a cute little pink Ouija board and one that glows in the dark, both marketed for children. They advertise that kids as young as 8 need to have these new sorcery objects! (Well, they don't call them "sorcery objects" but the Bible does.) I know it is billed as a 'toy' but I have enough personal experience that I can tell you it is blatant divination....

      "Those perpetrating this are aiming at younger kids every day. Serious reproach against witchcraft and divination is given in Deuteronomy 18:9-15. ... I was addicted to a Ouija board. I had people driving 100 miles to put their hands on the glass object, ask the board questions, and have it spell out answers..." See The Nature and Tactics of Satan

Fans campaign for heavy metal to be recognised as religion: [UK]: "They are being asked to officially register their faith as 'heavy metal' while filling in the next Census questionnaire. In the last census, a similar campaign led to 390,000 UK residents listing their religion as Jedi - the fictional creed created for the Star Wars movie saga.... ''Like a lot of good ideas, this one came about in a pub and the response online has been overwhelming.'' See Popular Music with Pagan Roots

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