Monthly Archives: July 2008

World-Citizen Obama’s globalist, anti-Messiah, July 24 speech in Berlin:

Sounds theme similar to NWO’s Vatican Pope Ratzinger’s July 18 ecumenical message in Australia.

Both Obama and Ratzinger use the fight against terrorism as cause to unite people of different nations and religions, advancing both globalism and ecumenism; just as Roman Catholicism’s leaders have used the abortion issue and the “pro-life movement” for decades in America, to promote the Vatican’s greater ecumenical agenda of “uniting” in the American culture wars with Protestants, to absorb them into the false, anti-Messiah religion of Catholicism.

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., waves after speaking at the Victory Column in Berlin,
Thursday, July 24, 2008.

The Associated Press

Obama speech draws praise from chancellor’s office
www.thestate.com/365/story/471195.html
Fri, Jul. 25, 2008

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The anti-Christian New World Order (NWO) has three main components:
1) one-world civil (‘political’) Government
2) one-world Money
3) one-world (false) Religion (led by the Vatican)

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“Citizen of the World” candidate for United States President, Barrack Hussein Obama

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“I come to Berlin as so many of my countrymen have come before, although tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for president, but as a citizen ­ a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world,” Obama said from his perch next to the Victory Column in Berlin, from which he could see throngs of spectators.

Obama Casts Self as World Citizen, But Will It Play in America?
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/07/24/obama-casts-self-as-world-citizen/
by FOXNews.com
Thursday, July 24, 2008

Obama speaks well of anti-sovereignty, Tower-of-Babel European Union – does he support a North American Union for the U.S. / Mexico / Canada ?

“We know ­ we know that these walls have fallen before. After centuries of strife, the people of Europe have formed a union of promise and prosperity. Here, at the base of a column built to mark victory in war, we meet in the center of a Europe at peace.

Obama preaching more globalism as his solution to fighting terrorism / “extremism” / and “hate”:

“If we could create NATO to face down the Soviet Union, we can join in a new and global partnership to dismantle the networks that have struck in Madrid and Amman, in London and Bali, in Washington and New York. If we could win a battle of ideas against the communists, we can stand with the vast majority of Muslims who reject the extremism that leads to hate instead of hope.”

“This is the moment when we must renew our resolve to rout the terrorists who threaten our security in Afghanistan and the traffickers who sell drugs on your streets.

“No one welcomes war. I recognize the enormous difficulties in Afghanistan. But my country and yours have a stake in seeing that NATO’s first mission beyond Europe’s borders is a success. For the people of Afghanistan, and for our shared security, the work must be done.

America can’t do this alone. The Afghan people need our troops and your troops, our support and your support to defeat the Taliban and Al Qaida, to develop their economy, and to help them rebuild their nation. We have too much at stake to turn back now.

RAW DATA: Transcript of Obama’s Speech in Berlin
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/07/24/raw-data-transcript-of-obamas-speech-in-berlin/
by FOXNews.com
Thursday, July 24, 2008

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Obama urges Europeans, Americans to defeat terror
www.thestate.com/nationwire/story/469927.html
Fri, Jul. 25, 2008

BERLIN —

[highlighting emphasis added]

Cheered by an enormous international crowd, Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama on Thursday summoned Europeans and Americans together to “defeat terror and dry up the well of extremism that supports it” as surely as they conquered communism a generation ago.

[ CCL comment: Here we go again, same old “Ordo Ab Chao” routine of the NWO’s Illuminati – “Order Out of Chaos” – just as masonic Skull and Bones secret society member George W. Bush used the “War Against Terror” and the “terrorism” fear factor to launch an illegal, unnecessary, unjustified, and immoral war against Iraq, and to further shred the US Constitution’s Bill of Rights protecting our civil liberties (e.g., Patriot Act and FedGov wiretapping vs. the 4th Amendment), now the anti-Messiah Obama is using the “War Against Terror” to sing 2008’s version of “We are the World…” No Mr. Obama, we don’t want your brand and approach and pathway to one-world socialism any more than we want Bush’s. America, Just say “No!” to the NWO ! ]

“People of Berlin, people of the world, this is our moment. This is our time,” he declared.

“The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes, natives and immigrants, Christians and Muslims and Jews cannot stand,” he said.

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While U.S. Senator Barrack Obama declares his globalist message to the “people of the world” to unite to “defeat terror,” and that the “walls” between “Christians and Muslims and Jews cannot stand,” the TRUTH is that it is Barrack Obama’s anti-Messiah message that WILL NOT STAND.

For the omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent King of kings and Lord of lords (1 Tim. 6:15), Yeshua (Jesus) Messiah (Christ), has said: “… I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John 14:6, KJB)

Less than one week earlier, halfway around the world, the NWO’s Vatican Pope Ratzinger had sounded a similar theme in his ecumenical pronouncements July 18 in Australia, about the need for people of different religions to unite to fight terrorism. It appears both Obama and Ratzinger, both servants of the NWO, have learned their “Ordo Ab Chao” lesson well.
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Pope calls on religions to unite against terrorism
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080718/wl_nm/pope_australia_dc

By Philip Pullella Friday, July 18, 200

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Pope Benedict called for all religions to unite against terrorism and resolve conflicts peacefully on Friday and heard an Islamic leader urge Christians to overcome “misconceptions and prejudices” about Muslims.

“In a world threatened by sinister and indiscriminate forms of violence, the unified voice of religious people urges nations and communities to resolve conflict through peaceful means and with full regard for human dignity,” Benedict told an meeting with Muslims, Jews and members of other non-Christian faiths.

The pope, in Australia for the Church’s World Youth Day, also said the Catholic Church was open to learn from other religions, a comment seen in the context of moves to improve relations with other religions, particularly Islam.

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[ Surprise, Surprise [NOT !] – the NWO’s Vatican front-man, Pope Ratzinger, calls on “all religions to unite” – why, of course – that’s his job ! ]

Pope calls on religions to unite against terrorism
http://newsdaily.com/stories/syd209075-pope-australia/
By Philip PullellaPosted 2008/07/18 at 6:41 am EDT
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[ Who really believes this man is saved ? Bible-believing Christians should pray for him, this false religionist will spend eternity in hell unless he repents.]


AP
The pope also said the Catholic Church was open to learn from other religions, a comment seen in the context of the Vatican’s moves to improve relations with the Islamic world.

Pope calls on religions to unite against terrorism
Reuters
Published: July 18, 2008, 07:44
http://www.gulfnews.com/World/Australia/10229892.html
Australia

Sydney: Pope Benedict called for all religions to unite against terrorism and resolve conflicts peacefully on Friday in a speech to Australia’s Islamic and Jewish leaders.
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Pope calls on religions to unite against terrorism
Fri Jul 18, 2008 4:13am EDT
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL18717369

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Pope sorry for ‘evil’ of sex abuse
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-07-18-pope-australia_N.htm
Posted 7/18/2008 9:27 PM
[later updated]

SYDNEY, Australia (AP) ­ Pope Benedict XVI said he was “deeply sorry’ for the sexual abuse of children by Australia’s Catholic clergy, delivering a strongly-worded apology Saturday that described their acts as evil and a grave betrayal of trust.

“I would like to pause to acknowledge the shame which we have all felt as a result of the sexual abuse of minors by some clergy and religious in this country,” Benedict said during an address at a Mass in Sydney.

“I am deeply sorry for the pain and suffering the victims have endured. I assure them as their pastor that I too share in their suffering,” he said.

“Those responsible for these evils must be brought to justice.”

Benedict has expressed regret before about the clergy abuse scandal that has rocked the church in recent years ­ notably during a visit to the United States in April when he also met privately with a small number of victims. But the language of Saturday’s apology was stronger than the pope’s comments in the United States.

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There was no immediate word whether Benedict would meet with victims of clergy abuse during his Australia trip, which ends Monday.

Support groups for victims of church abuse in Australia, whose numbers are not known but who activists say are in the thousands, said a papal apology is not enough and demanded the church end what they say is a continuing cover-up of the scale of the problem and stop fighting compensation claims lodged in civil courts.

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On Friday, Benedict told representatives of Islam and other faiths that they must unite to combat religion’s role in “sinister and indiscriminate” violence.

Without mentioning terrorism directly, the pontiff said there were those who were using religion “as a cause of division rather than a force for unity.” He was speaking in a 40-minute exchange with Australian Jewish, Muslim, Hindu and Buddhist leaders in Sydney.

“In a world threatened by sinister and indiscriminate forms of violence, the unified voice of religious people urges nations and communities to resolve conflicts through peaceful means and with full regard for human dignity,” Benedict told the leaders.

The remarks come as the Vatican tries to cool lingering anger among Muslims over a speech Benedict gave in 2006 that appeared to associate Islam with violence. Benedict quickly apologized for the link.

By Mark Baker, AP

Crowds swamp the pope mobile as Pope Benedict XVI arrives Thursday at Bangaroo for his official World Youth Day welcome in Sydney, Australia.

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Bush’s Mideast Crusade for the Vatican a Betrayal of Patriotic Americans
Vatican public “opposition” to the Iraq War is a fraud, a “false flag” operation.
www.VaticanAssassins.org (Jesuits)
http://lefemineforlife.blogspot.com/2008/05/bushs-mideast-crusade-for-vatican.html

George W. Bush, the Catholic President
“A Catholic Wind in the White House”
The Washington Post, Sunday, April 13, 2008
http://lefemineforlife.blogspot.com/2008/05/george-w-bush-catholic-president.html

Freemason Israel Prime Ministers, 1948-2008
Of the 13 different people who have served as Prime Minister of Israel, documentation and/or references found thus far indicate at least eight (8) of these people are (were) Masons.
http://lefemineforlife.blogspot.com/2008/05/freemason-israel-prime-ministers-1948.html

Illuminati (Freemasons) in control of Israel
“Masonic display in the middle of the street.”
www.thegoldenreport.com/asp/jerrysnewsmanager/anmviewer.asp?a=963
http://lefemineforlife.blogspot.com/2008/05/illuminati-freemasons-in-control-of.html

Kissing the Slippered Toe of the Pope :
Will George W. Bush do in real life what he acted out as a Skull and Bones initiate ?
Pope to visit George W. Bush in the White House on Wednesday, April 16, 2008.
http://lefemineforlife.blogspot.com/2008/04/kissing-slippered-toe-of-pope.html

Sovereign Head of Vatican City State (Pope) to visit the USA April 15-20, 2008
– “Supreme legislative, executive, and judicial power is vested in the pope,…”
– The pope “serves concurrently as bishop of Rome, supreme pontiff of the Universal Church [sic], primate of Italy, archbishop and metropolitan of the Province of Rome, and sovereign of the Vatican City State.”
http://lefemineforlife.blogspot.com/2008/04/sovereign-head-of-vatican-city-state.html

Roman Catholicism is NOT Biblical Christianity
http://lefemineforlife.blogspot.com/2008/04/roman-catholicism-is-not-biblical.html

Sovereign Head of Vatican City State (Pope) to visit the USA April 15-20, 2008
http://lefemineforlife.blogspot.com/2008/03/sovereign-head-of-vatican-city-state.html

Rome’s Pope to meet Muslims; furthers NWO goal of one-world (false) Religion
The anti-Christian New World Order (NWO) has three main planks:
1) one-world civil (‘political’) Government
2) one-world Money
3) one-world (false) Religion
http://lefemineforlife.blogspot.com/2008/03/romes-pope-to-meet-muslims-furthers-nwo.html

Ecumenical, Anti-Christ U.S. House of Representatives commemorates Ramadan, and commends false religion of Islam as “one of the great religions of the world”
The Word of God, the Bible, says, “Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Exodus 20:13, KJB (Ex. 34:14)
– The FIRST COMMANDMENT of the TEN COMMANDMENTS.
— Spiritually-mongrelized U.S. House of Representatives passed House Resolution, H.RES.635.IH, on Tuesday, October 2, 2007: “Recognizing the commencement of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting and spiritual renewal, and commending Muslims in the United States and throughout the world for their faith.” — PLUS: Documentation on Roman Catholicism, Freemasonry, and Islam, and the Satanic Lie of Ecumenism.
Also, religious profile of 109th (2005-2006) United States Congress
http://lefemineforlife.blogspot.com/2007/10/ecumenical-anti-christ-u.html

Ecumenical, Masonic, Anti-Christ American President celebrates Islamic Holy Days of Ramadan
Skull and Bones Masonic secret society member American President George W. Bush attends Ramadan Dinner
in White House State Room
President Bush Attends Iftaar Dinner at the White House
www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/10/print/20071004-9.html
State Dining Room, October 4, 2007
(Audio and Video links also available on this WhiteHouse.gov website page)
THE PRESIDENT: “Thank you all for coming. Please be seated. Ramadan Mubarak. Laura and I are pleased to have you here for our seventh Iftaar dinner. Tonight we celebrate traditions of Islamic faith, which brings hope and comfort to more than a billion people.”
“Laura and I are grateful you’re here. Thank you for coming. We wish you a blessed Ramadan. And now I ask the Imam to say the blessing.”
http://lefemineforlife.blogspot.com/2007/10/ecumenical-masonic-anti-christ-american.html

Three Christians arrested as U.S. Senate defiled by Hindu prayer
“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Exodus 20:3, KJB US Senate Chamber, Washington, D.C., July 12, 2007

US Senate – Hindu prayer disturbance – July 12, 2007
– print and video media links to US Senate Hindu prayer disturbance
– other examples of false religionists who have prayed in the past to open sessions of the US House and US Senate (including Hindu, Muslim, and Jewish)
– identification of false religionists who are praying now, daily, to open sessions of the US House and US Senate, as the official Chaplains of each chamber of the United States Congress !!! (Roman Catholic and Seventh Day Adventist

US Congressional Record – Senate – Hindu prayer disturbance – July 12, 2007
Browse Daily Issues of the Congressional Record – 110th Congress (2007-2008)

Pope: Roman Catholic ‘Church’ only one true church
Repeating centuries of history, Rome has once again revealed its own dominion theology of primacy, and indeed, sole legitmacy, as the only true “church” on earth, in a document approved by the current false prophet occupying the antichrist Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI, on June 29, 2007. This blasphemous, perverted assertion is in fact just the opposite of the Truth. The false religion of Romanism is NOT Biblical Christianity, but is in fact a “Christianized” form of the ancient pagan religion of historical Babylon.

Hindu prayer to open US Senate Session – July 12, 2007
“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Exodus 20:3, KJB Christians in America continue to lose our country to false religions…
National Reform Association (organized in 1864) – http://www.natreformassn.org/

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“If My people [Christians], which are called by My [God’s] Name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways [the sins of commission and omission of Christians]; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land [America, or any nation].”

2 Chronicles 7:14

“But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.”

Psalm 94:15, KJB

“America repent”
“Contemporary Christian Artist: Tim Juillet”
www.myspace.com/timjuillet
(scroll down to song in player window in upper right of home page)

No King but King Jesus! (Yeshua Messiah)
Declarations and Evidences of Christian Faith in America’s Colonial Charters, State Constitutions,
and other Historical Documents during over 375 Years of American History: 1606 to 1982
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/NoKingbutKingJesus.doc

“… I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18
Yeshua Messiah

Hallelu-Yah !

Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC 29250
(803) 765-0916
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
http://www.lefemineforlife.net/
July 28, 2008

McCain Meets the anti-Messiah Dalai Lama

McCain calls false religionist Dalai Lama, “His Holiness”

The Aspen Institute where the anti-Messiah Dalai Lama was attending a conference is CHOCK FULL OF CFR MEMBERS – e.g., Paul Volcker, and honorary trusteesHenry Kissinger, Robert McNamara, and Cyrus Vance, and many others.

McCain is also a member of the CFR, a FACT grossly non-reported or under-reportedby the CFR-controlled corporate dinosaur media, as well as by most so-called “conservative” and “Christian” Establishment media.

The Bible has warned us – God’s people (Christians) are destroyed for lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6).

We know why the CFR-controlled media like the “CFR Evening News” hosted by CFR-member Jim Lehrer doesn’t report that McCain is a CFR member, or why CFR-member Katie Couric, CBS News anchor hides that fact as well, and why CFR-member Brian Williams, NBC News anchor hides that fact, and why FOX News, controlled by News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch, also a CFR-member does not report the fact that John McCain is a member of the one-worlder, globalist NWO Insider Establishment organization, the Council on Foreign Relations.

Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Membership Roster www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/CFRMembers.html

See a concise overview article about the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) at:
“The Definition of Tyranny,” The New American (May 15, 1995), by John F. McManus

But why is it that so-called “Christian” and “conservative” media outlets don’t report this fact,when it is readily available on the internet ?

Why aren’t these people doing their duty to equip God’s people with full knowledge before the November 4, 2008 Election, to help them avoid voting for another Establishment Globalist ?

Like the pulpits of this country, those in the media have much to answer for when they meet God one day, for what they have failed to tell the people of America.

Of course, the great fear among some preachers and among some people in the media is that if the “truth” they tell is too “hard” to bear, they’ll lose members and readers/listeners/viewers, respectively. Sadly, this is all too true of a reality – most Americans have not demonstrated that they have the character of a Patrick Henry, who wanted to know the truth, even the worst of it, so he could take whatever steps were necessary (Proverb 22:3) to prepare.

Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death
Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775.
http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/henry-liberty.html

“Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.”

Despite all of America’s so-called “Reality” shows, most Americans, including Christians, have demonstrated by their words and actions that they would actually rather prefer to live in a state of “Unreal” Denial. Unless this changes in the days ahead, it will be fatal for America, and along the way, may prove fatal for many Americans.

9-11 was another sign, warning, and judgment from God, that America is not right with Him ! (Psalm 9:17, Deut. 28). It is GOD who provides the security for a nation (Leviticus 26:6), and if wicked men attacked us and killed 3,000 or so innocent Americans on September 11, 2001, it was because God either allowed it, or caused it. If you do not accept that fact, then you do not believe in an Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, and Sovereign God who rules over all men and nations (Psalm 2). MORE, and GREATER divine judgment is coming upon America if we do not repent of the shedding of innocent blood by abortion (49 Million murdered by surgical abortion alone since 1973, and counting – http://www.ldi.org/).

Founding father George Mason, a contemporary and ally of Patrick Henry’s, said during the Constitutional Convention, on August 22, 1787, “By an inevitable chain of causes and events, Providence punishes national sins, by national calamities.”

Institutionalized, Government-protected child-murder-by-abortion is a national sin. 9-11 was a national calamity. MORE and GREATER divine judgment is coming upon America if we do not repent (STOP !) this great sin against God, profaning HIS NAME, and defiling HIS SANCTUARY (Leviticus 20:3).

Why isn’t this message of warning being trumpeted from every pulpit across the land? A preacher who does not try to warn and protect his sheep, is not a true “shepherd.”

If we do not identify, expose, and oppose the REAL ENEMIES, FOREIGN and DOMESTIC (including many “in-the-know” CFR members) who are working, and have been working, to subjugate our people and this nation, to the tyranny of the New World Order, our nation will continue to unravel.

Wake up America ! – the Illuminati’s satanic NWO masonic agenda is “hidden in plain view” all over the media, in monuments (e.g., the huge national obelisk called the Washington Monument on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.), in major public events that take place (such as the NWO’s Pope Ratzinger (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI) being honored on the White House lawn on April 16, 2008, and meeting with the President of the United States in the Oval Office), and even on the back of the One Dollar bill in your pocket, below the masonic pyramid on the Great Seal of the United States: the phrase in Latin: “Novus Ordo Seclorum” – or, “new order of the ages” (a phrase used by masonic Skull and Bones secret society member George W. Bush in his Second Inaugural speech on January 20, 2005 – “When our Founders declared a new order of the ages;…” – http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/01/20050120-1.html ) – or, the “NEW WORLD ORDER.”

May God help us in the U.S. to wake up out of our stupor and denial, and have the courage to deal with things as they truly are, before it is too late. If Christians would repent (2 Chronicles 7:14), perhaps America can be saved. No nation could survive, doing what America is doing today, without repentance. Repentance is a matter of national security and survival.

The New World Order’s modern “Tower of Babel” will fail, just as the prideful, satanic plans of men were undone at the historic, ancient Tower of Babel in Genesis, chapter 11. The question is, at what cost ? The longer it takes for men to awaken to the great danger we are in, the greater the cost will likely be to prevail against our enemies.

“If My people [Christians], which are called by My [God’s] Name, shall humble themselves, and pray,and seek My Face, and turn from their wicked ways [the sins of commission and omission of Christians]; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land [America, or any nation].”

2 Chronicles 7:14

“But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.”

Psalm 94:15, KJB

“America repent”
“Contemporary Christian Artist: Tim Juillet”
www.myspace.com/timjuillet
(scroll down to song in player window in upper right of home page)

No King but King Jesus! (Yeshua Messiah)
Declarations and Evidences of Christian Faith in America’s Colonial Charters, State Constitutions, and other Historical Documents during over 375 Years of American History: 1606 to 1982
www.christianlifeandliberty.net/NoKingbutKingJesus.doc

“… I will build My church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.” Matthew 16:18
Yeshua Messiah

Hallelu-Yah !

Steve Lefemine, pro-life missionary,
dir., Columbia Christians for Life
PO Box 50358
Columbia, SC 29250
(803)765-0916
http://www.christianlifeandliberty.net/
http://www.righttolifeactofsc.net/
http://www.lefemineforlife.net/
July 27, 2008

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From: Columbia Christians for Life CCL@ChristianLifeandLiberty.net
Subject: McCain Meets Dalai Lama

CBS News

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/25/politics/printable4296335.shtml

McCain Meets Dalai Lama

ASPEN, Colo., July 25, 2008

(AP) Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Friday called on China to release Tibetan prisoners as he met with the Dalai Lama.

After a 45-minute meeting with the Dalai Lama, McCain said the Beijing Olympic Games in August provide an opportunity for China to demonstrate it recognizes human rights. He also said the Dalai Lama is merely seeking basic rights to preserve Tibetan culture, language and religion.

“That’s why I’m so disappointed by repeated statements by Chinese officials that ascribe to the Dalai Lama views and actions divorced from what he actually represents. Such rhetoric doesn’t serve a cause of peaceful change and reconciliation,” McCain said.

“I urge the Chinese government to release Tibetan political prisoners, account for Tibetans who have, quote, ‘disappeared’ since protests in March, and engage in meaningful dialogue on genuine autonomy for Tibet,” McCain said.

The Tibetan spiritual leader was in Aspen for a symposium sponsored by The Aspen Institute think tank. McCain met with him while his rival, Democrat Barack Obama, was on high-profile trip through Europe and the Middle East.

The Dalai Lama praised McCain for his concern, but he emphasized he wasn’t endorsing McCain’s presidential bid.

The Dalai Lama is seeking support from world leaders for upcoming talks with China once the Olympics are over. He says he wants autonomy, not independence, for Tibet.

China claims Tibet has been its territory for centuries.

“His Holiness represents the profound desire of millions of Tibetans for basic dignity and human rights. His nonviolence approach and his lifelong work seeking common ground across cultural and religious divides are an inspiration to all of mankind and to millions of Americans,” McCain said as the Dalai Lama clutched McCain’s hands.

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