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Subject: [BPR] - Fatima Secret Foresaw 1981 Murder Bid on Pope
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 10:35:02 -0400

Saturday May 13 8:23 AM ET

Fatima Secret Foresaw 1981 Murder Bid on Pope

FATIMA (Reuters) - The Vatican on Saturday unveiled part of a
mystery that has intrigued the Roman Catholic world for more than
80 years, saying that the so-called third secret of Fatima foresaw a
failed bid to kill Pope John Paul in 1981.

The Vatican, which had for decades declined to reveal the secret's
contents, promised full details would be divulged after ``appropriate''
preparation of the text for the faithful because it also contained
another prophetic vision.

The secret is the subject of hundreds of books, fills thousands of
web sites and even inspired a 1981 plane hijacking by a man who
wanted the Vatican to reveal it.

Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of state, made the
announcement to hundreds of thousands of people gathered in
Fatima for a mass in which the Pope beatified two of the three
shepherd children said to have received three secrets from the
Madonna in apparitions in 1917.

Sodano said the third part of the secret -- the first two are already
well known -- involved martyrdom and suffering, including a ``bishop
clothed in white'' who ``falls to the ground apparently dead, under a
burst of gunfire.''

He added that after the 1981 assassination attempt by Turkish
gunman Mehmet Ali Agca ``it appeared evident to his Holiness that
it was a motherly hand which guided the bullet's path, enabling the
dying Pope to halt at the threshold of death.''

The Pope had ordered the Vatican's doctrinal department to make
public the third part of the secret, after the preparation of an
``appropriate commentary,'' Sodano added.

This was because the text contained a ``prophetic vision'' similar to
those found in the Gospel and therefore it ``must be interpreted in a
symbolic key,'' Sodano said.

Doom and gloom predictions have percolated and been doused
time and again since Sister Lucia -- the only one of the three
visionaries still alive -- began writing down her recollections of the
apparitions.

The first part of the Madonna's message was a vision of hell shown
to the children.

In the second part, Mary predicted the outbreak of World War Two
some 22 years before it started, asked for devotion to her
Immaculate Heart and asked that Russia, which was about to
undergo the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, be consecrated to her.

Otherwise, the Madonna is said to have told the children, to whom
she appeared each month from May to October, 1917, that Russia,
about to become the Soviet Union, would ``spread her errors'' in the
world and the Pope would suffer much.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000513/wl/pope_fatima_6.html

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Subject: [BPR] - United Religions Initiative
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Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 10:30:28 -0500

United Religions Initiative SM

URI News

http://www.united-religions.org/newsite/urinews/index.htm

Cooperation Circles Accepted for Membership

The United Religions Initiative moved closer to its official birth
last week as members of the international Board of Directors, now
called the Interim Global Council, approved for Cooperation Circle
(CC) membership, the applications of interfaith groups from around
the world. CCs are the fundamental organizing unit of URI and are
created by people who come together to initiate acts of interfaith
cooperation. They are self-organizing and each determines its own
unique purpose, membership and ways of making decisions that are
relevant to and consistent with the Preamble, Purpose and Principles
of URI.

The approval process began with a Council member reading aloud each
application in which the Preamble, Purpose and Principles were
affirmed and confirming that there were at least seven members from
at least 3 different faiths. Forty-nine applications from local
communities in Africa, Europe, Asia, North and South America were
approved and the number of members in each CC ranged from 7 to over
1,000. Council itself is composed of members from all over the world
and members from outside the United States read the requests from
their own CC groups in their own home countries. After each approval,
all of which were unanimous, the entire Council repeated in unison,
"May the people of (the regional CC was named) fulfill their
aspirations and live in peace." This was a very meaningful step in
the Chartering process for the United Religions Initiative.
Applications for CC membership continue to arrive daily. For more
information or to download an application, see the URI Charter
<../charter/index.htm> section on our Web site.

URI's official birth takes place in Pittsburgh, PA on June 26th, the
first day of its annual Global Summit. Participants in the Charter
signing will include religious leaders representing the world's faith
traditions as well as representatives from URI Cooperation Circles
around the globe. Some of the faiths represented include: Hindu,
Zoroastrian, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Taoist, Wiccan,
Baha'i, Sikh, and Indigenous Peoples. Those involved come from
countries such as Argentina, Sri Lanka, England, Israel, Ethiopia,
the Philippines, Canada, India, Belgium, Indonesia, the Netherlands,
Pakistan, Mozambique and others. URI is an organization where people
act from their deepest values and claim their right and
responsibility to do extraordinary things to serve interfaith
cooperation on a local and global level.

This conference marks the 5th Global Summit for the United Religions
Initiative, which was conceived by California Bishop William E. Swing
to bring together people of different religions and spiritual
traditions to, "stop killing in the name of God and start learning to
live together." URI is a growing global community dedicated to
promoting enduring daily interfaith cooperation, ending religiously
motivated violence and creating cultures of peace, justice and
healing for the Earth and all living beings.

Links of interest:

URI BACKGROUND & ANALYSIS
http://www.endtime.com/un.htm

URI VIEWPOINT FROM 'CUTTING EDGE'
http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1094.cfm

Fundamental Evangelistic Association Viewpoint
http://www.tcsn.net/fbchurch/fbcunite.htm

Pro United Religions article
http://www.futurenet.org/7Peacebuilding/URI.html

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Subject: [BPR] - Palestinians: 11 more days to reach framework deal with Israel
From: bpr-list@philologos.org("Moza")
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 18:37:38 -0400

Palestinians: 11 more days to reach framework deal with Israel

Copyright 2000 by Agence France-Presse

GAZA CITY, May 12 (AFP) - The Palestinians said Friday they would allow
11 more days to reach a framework peace agreement with Israel, but said
Israeli intransigence made the chances slim.

"We had agreed to come up with a framework deal by May 23, but there is
little chance this date will be respected," senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb
Erakat told AFP. He accused Israel of not respecting its prior commitments.

The framework between the two sides was supposed to be completed
February 13, but the target date was postponed to May.

The date of May 13 was suggested at one time, but Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Barak's spokesman Gadi Baltiansky said no precise deadline in May
had been fixed.

The framework accord is supposed to establish the major points of
agreement between Israel and the Palestinians as part of a permanent peace
treaty, due to be completed by September 13 at the latest.

Negotiations, however, have been stuck on a number of thorny issues,
including the status of Jerusalem, the borders of any future Palestinian state
and the fate of both Jewish settlements and the 3.5 million Palestinian
refugees.

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