SO CALLED TRUCE BROKE ALREADY

1-WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS. 2-Cold snap leaves 1 dead in Calgary. 3-Floods kill seven in Somalia, death toll climbs to 96. 4-Flood warnings issued. 5-Boat capsizes in Philippines, 14 dead, 65 rescued. 6-They've taken Christ out of our Christmas. 7-Thousands of Muslims urge Pope not to visit Turkey. 8-Ray Flynn former US Ambassador to the VATICAN talks with Jennifer from CTVNEWSNET about the POPES visit to TURKEY on Tuesday. 9-Turkey's Christians await pope's visit. 10-West must prepare for Chinese, Indian dominance: Wolfensohn. 11-Jordan's king sees possibility of three civil wars in Mideast. 12-Stormy end to November may spell disaster for the dollar. 13-Despite truce, Palestinian attacks go on.

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

WORLD QUAKES LAST 2 DAYS (USGS)

Update time = Mon Nov 27 12:10 AM EDT

NOV 27,2006
MAP 2.5 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
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MAP 3.0 OFFSHORE BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO
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NOV 26,2006
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MAP 4.2 NEAR THE SOUTH COAST OF CHUKOTKA, RUSSIA
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MAP 2.7 CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
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STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Cold snap leaves 1 dead in Calgary
Updated Sun. Nov. 26 2006 3:39 PM ET,CTV.ca News Staff

The bitter cold that has swept across the prairies has claimed one life, despite a last-minute crunch to provide emergency shelter. Some of Calgary's homeless made their way to a temporary shelter at the Calgary Saddle Dome to escape the frigid temperatures. But the body of a man was found lying in a Calgary street Saturday. The cause of death has not been determined, but police believe the extreme cold could have been a factor. Shelters around the province have been adding extra beds, and the city says it will keep the Saddle Dome open as an emergency shelter as the cold spell continues. Sunday's temperature in Calgary was expected to be -21 and it's not going to get much warmer until Wednesday. The forecast for the city for the next few days is -20. The city's shelters are overflowing and with a planned shelter stalled by appeals from area residents, the city is short on beds. The city has turned the grandstand at Exhibition and Stampede Park into a temporary shelter.

In order to use the grandstand building, the city of Calgary had to determine that this was an emergency situation and required an immediate response, said city spokesman Chris Branch. Housing is a premium in Calgary, which has experienced an economic boom that has attracted workers from all over Canada. Gary Smith, one of hundreds of workers who have jobs in Calgary but have been unable to find housing, stayed at a drop-in centre Friday night, but it was full when he got off work at 4 p.m. on Saturday.

Most of the people staying in shelters who don't have a home right now are workers who have come to Calgary to help work ... during the (construction) boom, Smith said. Calgary firefighters struggled to stay warm as they fought a blaze Saturday afternoon that resulted in the evacuation of three adjacent apartment buildings.

In Edmonton, where temperatures hovered at -15 degrees Celsius on Saturday afternoon and fell to -22 by the evening, homeless people were doing what they could to stay warm on the weekend. Most Edmonton shelters are open from Monday through Friday.
I go into malls, go onto transit, go anywhere that's warm, Gerry Lalonde, who doesn't have a home, told CTV Edmonton. The Mustard Seed Church ministry in Edmonton has put out an appeal for clothing, blankets and gloves to help keep people warm.

There's no other resource for some of them so it's important all the agencies work together and make sure people keep warm, said Mariam Leslie, the church's volunteer coordinator. Elsewhere on the Prairiees, overnight lows in the -20 range are expected in Regina, with Saskatoon a bit colder. Winnipeg should be slightly milder, with overnight lows in the -15 range. Meanwhile, Toronto was expected to stay above freezing overnight and experience a daytime high of +11 on Sunday. Temperatures in Atlantic Canada are also expected to be relatively mild on Sunday.

Vancouver's snow troubles

Winter arrived a little early in B.C., where a snow fall warning remains in effect. The snow storm, which is is expected to leave as many as 30 centimetres on the Lower Mainland by Monday, is expected to taper off Sunday night.An estimated 17 centimetres had already fallen in certain parts of the Lower Mainland by Sunday afternoon. Once it does, Environment Canada said the temperature is expected to drop below freezing. Any water or slush on the roads will turn into ice, leaving them slippery. Vancouver engineer Murray Wightman told CTV Newsnet that the city spent all day Saturday getting the snowplows and snow removal trucks ready to roll. We started our first shift last night at 7 and we had a shift change at 7 this morning and we're just going to keep going, said Wightman. Except for a short period around 4 a.m. Sunday, the snow has been falling steadily, he said.

Travellers were being warned to expect flight delays and cancellations at Vancouver International Airport on Sunday. Air Canada said passengers should check on the status of their flights on the Air Canada or Vancouver International Airport websites before heading to the airport.

Snowfall elsewhere in B.C. resulted in the provincial government issuing travel advisories, warning drivers to be aware of snowy conditions in areas west of both Glacier and Yoho national parks in eastern B.C. In the North Central Interior of B.C., temperatures are expected to be in the -25 range.There have been power outages reported in the communities of Mission, Hope, Coquitlam, Langley, Tsawwassen, Delta and most of Bowen Island. Poor weather conditions forced a 14-passenger plane to make an emergency landing at the Tsawwassen ferry terminal in Vancouver on Saturday. No one was hurt.

With a pre-Christmas cold snap on the way in Vancouver, where temperatures are more often moderate, social service agencies in Vancouver were on a quest for more shelter beds. The Salvation Army on the city's Downtown Eastside, which has 237 beds, said it was gathering bedding in advance of an increased demand. We anticipate we're going to be full to overflowing, Capt. John Murray told The Canadian Press.Sleeping mats have been spread on the floor in a large multi-purpose room and a dining area, he said.Murray said the organization is grateful to the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation, which bought the Army and Navy department store's entire stock of blankets about 400 and donated them. With reports from CTV's Kevin Green in Calgary and Nashiha Naqvi in Edmonton, and files from The Canadian Press

Floods kill seven in Somalia, death toll climbs to 96 Sun Nov 26, 11:05 AM ET

MOGADISHU (AFP) Floods have killed at least seven people, including five children, as the fourth week of heavy rains pounded Somalia, bringing the death toll to at least 96. Three people drowned in Middle Shabelle region when a wooden dhow capsized as they were fleeing to safety, officials said Sunday.We buried three people two of them children near Kunyabarow area this afternoon after they died from drowning, said Abdullahi Moalim Gesey, a local elder, told AFP.Health officials said a 72-year-old man and his one-year-old grandson were killed and swept for several kilometres when their hut collapsed under heavy flooding in Mukayka village in Middle Shabelle region.The were sleeping in their small cottage when heavy floods swept the area. The old man and his grandson were discovered about seven kilometres away from their home, added Hussein Nur Ahmed, a community health official.

And in Buulo-Barde district in Somalia's central Hiraan region, two children drowned after water swept through their house, according to officials from Somalia's powerful Islamic movement.

Two more children from the same family died, but problems associated to floods are still continuing and the toll is still rising, said Sheikh Hussein Barre Raghe, head of Buulo-Barde Islamic courts.Raghe said the affected civilians may die if humanitarian aid was delayed.Sunday's casualties brings the death toll to 96 since torrential rains started pounding the region in October, mainly flooding the main Shabelle and Juba rivers that have their source at the Ethiopian highlands.Around one million Somalis are estimated to be affected by the flooding, of which at least 336,000 have been forced from their homes, according to the United Nations.

Health officials have also sounded the alarm for outbreaks of waterborne diseases, particularly cholera, which has already been confirmed in two areas.The rains have destroyed farmlands, disrupted food supplies, cut off villages and washed away roads, complicating the delivery of aid to the most vulnerable and impoverished in remote areas.The Horn of Africa country is also on the brink of all-out war between the Islamic movement and government troops, backed by Ethiopian forces.

Flood warnings issued (Norwaypost) NOV 25,2006

Flood warnings have been issued for South Eastern Norway this weekend. Heavy rainfall has caused local rivers and lakes to overflow their banks in many places.The floodwaters are expected to peak on Sunday, and people are warned to look out for flooding in basements. Roger Melby of the Oslo Fire and Rescue Squad says to Aftenposten that they are on high alert, and Frode Sandersen of the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute says they are considering the danger for local landslides.The ground is saturated, and floodwaters from local rivers and brooks may undermine banks and cause slides. The situation is special, Sandersen says to the newspaper. (NRK/Aftenposten)

1/3RD OF SHIPS DESTROYED

REVELATION 8:8-9
8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;
9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

Boat capsizes in Philippines, 14 dead, 65 rescued
26 Nov 2006 07:58:59 GMT

MANILA, Nov 26 (Reuters) Rescue teams were searching on Sunday for at least 15 people still missing after a ferry carrying 300 sacks of cement capsized off the southern Philippines killing 14 people and forcing dozens overboard.The Leonida II sank on Saturday afternoon when it ran into rough waters after leaving Surigao City en route to Siargao Island, a tear-drop shaped surfing haven about 800 kilometers (497 miles) southeast of Manila, disaster officials said.Passing boats plucked 65 survivors from the sea but there was confusion over how many more people had been on board. A passenger list showed only 48 names, including a local mayor, who was still unaccounted for, and a group of high school pupils.

The wooden-hulled vessel had capacity for 150 people.

We have no idea how many people were actually on the boat, said Blance Gobenchiong, a regional director of the office of civil defence, adding that many travellers jump on board after inspection by the coast guard.Ferries of all descriptions ply the waters between the Philippines 7,000-plus islands and safety standards are often lax. Overcrowding is a common problem.Our search and rescue operations were still ongoing but we need more volunteers to look for survivors and equipment to reach the wreckage at 300 metres under water, Surigao City mayor Alfonso Casurra said.One survivor told local radio that the boat's captain lost control when large waves snapped one of the vessel's wooden outriggers. People started jumping as water flooded the deck.

THE WORLD NATIONS ARE TRYING TO TAKE GOD OUT OF CHRISTMAS TO WALES. SAD BUT TRUE.

They've taken Christ out of our Christmas Nov 26 2006
Rachel Mainwaring, Wales on Sunday

CHRIST is being left out of Christmas across Wales with just one council featuring the nativity story in their official public celebrations.Figures from the Office of National Statistics show 72 per cent of Welsh people call ourselves Christian but our poll of Wales 22 local authorities reveals Wrexham is the only one to stage an event which tells the story of the birth of the baby Jesus. Its Camels and Carols parade on December 21 will see the Three Kings ride camels through the town, accompanied by shepherds and carol singers, to St Giles Church live crib, including people playing Mary and Joseph.A council spokesman explained: Social cohesion is high on our agenda. We wouldn't back down from anything Christian, or anything Muslim, Hindu or otherwise.We recognise the importance that all communities make to our area but also feel it important to share our cultural heritage and identity.

By comparison, Cardiff council's Christmas centrepiece is the Winter Wonderland ice rink, big wheel and hot tubs. Swansea has followed suit with its Waterfront Winterland, complete with ice skating and fairground rides. Caerphilly council's celebrations are inspired by the Caribbean with samba and carnival dance workshops.

All three have denied excluding Christianity.

Caerphilly's spokesman said: We haven't taken any measures to lessen the Christian side of events.Cardiff council said it had no active policy of avoiding any religious factors and Swansea council said we are making the Christmas period as inclusive as possible while maintaining strong religious elements to our organised events including carol singing at the Waterfront Winterland.

The results of our survey echo a national trend away from celebrations of Christian festivals. The Royal Mail has come under fire for issuing Christmas stamps free of religious images.This week Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York who recently criticised the systematic erosion of Christianity from public life, appealed for BA to reconsider its decision to refuse an appeal by check-in worker Nadia Eweida, who was told she could not openly wear a cross to work.

And a further example, critics say, of political correctness overriding religion was seen when Plymouth council ended free parking on Sundays so as not to offend non-Christians.Religious leaders in Wales are appalled the story of Christmas has been detached from festivities here.The Reverend Aled Edwards, who is chief executive of the Christian umbrella group Churches Together in Wales, said: What we would ask people to remember is that while they are playing piggyback on this holiday, they should remember its Christian heritage.I think it's disingenuous if a Christian event excludes its Christian origins.

It is important for people not to presume that making the Christian message clear will offend other religions. If you were recognising Ramadan you'd recognise it as a Muslim event, so people should not seek to hide the fact that it's a Christian celebration.Canon Robert Reardon, of the Catholic archdiocese in Wales, blamed society's shift away from religion, saying the lack of religious themes are simply a reflection of where we're at.Saleem Kiowai, secretary of the Muslim Council of Wales, added: Christmas is a religious festival and it does not need to be neutralised. If you believe in a faith then you should keep to that faith.Politician Nick Bourne, leader of the Welsh Assembly Conservatives, added his disbelief.I've heard about changes taking place and I think it's ridiculous. It's important people are aware of the Christian element, and I think Wrexham should be applauded, he said.Other council-run Christmas events in Wales include Santa and Shrek parades and farmers markets in Rhondda, Cynon Taf; a Jack Frost parade in Newport; fancy dress in Neath Port Talbot; and a craft fair, with carols, in Pembrokeshire.

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, and the Hagarenes;
7 Gebal, and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

PERSECUSSION,BEHEADINGS

JESUS PERSECUTED BIGTIME

ISAIAH 53:4
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

MATTHEW 9:34
34 But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.

JOHN 8:41
41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

JOHN 10:20
20 And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?

PHILIPPIANS 2:10-11(JESUS GETS REVENGE)
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.(JUDGEMENT SEAT OF CHRIST AND FOR SINNERS, THE GREAT WHITE THRONE FINAL JUDGEMENT).

WE ARE CHRISTIANS WE WILL BE TREATED THE SAME.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1-5 (WHY WE ARE PERSECUTED BY THE WORLD)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

MATTHEW 5:10-12
10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

MATTHEW 24:9
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.

JOHN 15:18-20
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me (JESUS) before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

REVELATION 6:9-11
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain(BEHEADED) for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.

REVELATION 20:4
4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Thousands of Muslims urge Pope not to visit Turkey By Daren Butler and Paul de Bendern NOV 26,06

ISTANBUL (Reuters) More than 20,000 Muslims in Istanbul on Sunday held the biggest protest so far against Pope Benedict's controversial visit to Turkey this week.The Pope, due to begin his first official visit to a Muslim country on Tuesday, angered many Muslims in September with a speech they took as an insult to their religion.Youths wearing headbands with Islamic slogans, beating drums and waving red-and-white Turkish flags chanted Allahu Akbar (God is greatest) and Pope don't come at the peaceful rally.I cannot remain silent when the Prophet Mohammad is insulted. I love him more than myself, said Husamettin Aycan Alp, 25, a science student from Izmir in western Turkey.

He said Roman Catholic cardinals chose this Pope last year because he is against Islam and (they) are concerned Islam is spreading in Europe.

The four-day visit is billed as an opportunity to heal rifts with the Muslim world after the Pope quoted a Byzantine emperor saying Islam was violent and irrational. He has said he does not share that view.It will be closely followed by the Islamic world and is the most challenging of Pope Benedict's papacy so far.Speaking in the Vatican on Sunday, he said he wanted the visit to show his friendship for Turkey and its people.Starting right now, I want to send a cordial greeting to the dear Turkish people, rich in history and culture. To these people and their representatives I express feelings of esteem and sincere friendship, he said in his noon address.A visit to Istanbul's famous Sultanahmet, or Blue Mosque was added to the Pope's itinerary at the last minute, a move seen as a further attempt at reconciliation with the Muslim world.His predecessor, Pope John Paul II, made the first visit by a pontiff to a mosque during a trip to Damascus in 2001. Pope John Paul paid the last papal visit to Turkey in 1979.

PROTEST AGAINST CRUSADERS

The Islamist Felicity party that organised the protest under the banner against the crusader alliance a reference to the crusaders who crossed Anatolia 1,000 years ago on their way to Jerusalem had expected an attendance of at least 75,000.Muslims don't want the Pope in their lands. Look at the suffering which they spread in Palestine, Iraq and Chechnya. I link this to Christianity, said Ferdi Borekci, a 28-year-old architect.

Before becoming Pope, Benedict annoyed Turks by speaking out against Turkey's move to join the European Union, saying it did not belong there because of its religion and culture.Turkey's ruling AK Party government has kept a low profile in preparations for this visit, with talks still in progress as to whether Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, a pious Muslim, will meet him before leaving for a NATO summit in Riga.With a general election due next year the AK Party, which has roots in political Islam, must balance a rise in nationalism as well as their support base among conservative Muslims.Turkey is officially a rigidly secular country, but predominantly Muslim.

Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul, who will be absent during the Pope's visit, played down the controversy. We will of course show hospitality and we hope that this visit will be a way of ending misunderstandings between Muslims and Christians, Gul told a news conference. His message will be very important. The main purpose of Benedict's visit is to meet the Istanbul-based leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, whom Turkish nationalists see as a tool of their ancient rival Greece.Turkey plans tight security measures for the Pope, whose trip will include the capital Ankara, Istanbul formerly Constantinople and the site where the Virgin Mary is believed to have lived and died near Izmir on the Aegean coast. (Additional reporting by Philip Pullella in Vatican City)

Ray Flynn former US Ambassador to the VATICAN talks with Jennifer from CTVNEWSNET about the POPES visit to TURKEY on Tuesday. NOV 25,2006

Jen-lets talk about the signifigance of this visit.

Ray-Well Pope benedict 16s challenging, his up coming visit to Turkey is daunting. Hes going to face hate propaganda against the West, by Islamic Radicals in the name of Religion. And I believe its the greatest threat to peace and freedom, not only in that area of the World but throughout the World.

Jen-Why is he going?

Ray-Well, the world community has failed lets be direct. UN is impotant (useless), American foreign policy is arrogant, World diplomacy does not exist. Religious Extremism is on the rise, and the world Dollar has really collapsed. And the world is morally and Politically bankrupt. And I think the biggest mistake Jennifer was when Pope John Paul 2ND and the Catholic Church opposed the war in Iraq.They were ignored. And I think that was the biggest mistake, and I think that Pope Benedict 16th is going back into that region. I m not to optomistic about it to be honest with you. But I think he is probably the last Religion itself, moral voice,
remains, or probably is the last hope for future stability in the world.

Jen-Why are you not optomistic about this visit?

Ray-Well I mean, there is certain things that could resolve this issue Jennifer. You know,Diplomacy between the US, UN,UK, with Iran, Iraq and syria. How serious is that. A permanent Peace between Israel and the Palestinians, how long have we been hearing about that. A stable and free Lebanon, how long have we been hearing about that. A collition building with Arabs and Muslims in the West, how likely is that. So Jennifer, We really need a greater moral and Religious role in unity in the middle east between Muslims, Christians and Jews. We take the Politics and the Politicians out of the picture entierly No US, maybe UN Arab troops, maybe let Benedict 16th be that voice of reason in peace in mutual respect, for all religious faiths in the World.

WELL RAY IS CALLING FOR RELIGIOUS LEADERS TO LEAD THE WAY AND THE POPE TO BE THE LEADER OF IT,EXACTLY WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THE VATICAN WILL BE ACTIVE IN THE WORLD EVENTS AND POLITICS.

REVELATION 17:2
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

Turkey's Christians await pope's visit By SUZAN FRASER, Associated Press Writer NOV 26,06

ANKARA, Turkey /Next door to a store selling artificial limbs in a run-down area of Turkey's capital, the Protestant church sits on the ground floor of a dreary apartment block, with barred windows and kitchen chairs for pews. The 100-strong congregation of the Kurtulus Church, which is linked to the U.S.-based International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, rents the space because authorities have not responded to its request for land and a permit to build a proper chapel.When Pope Benedict XVI visits Turkey for four days starting Tuesday, he will try to ease anger over his recent remarks linking Islam and violence. But he is also expected to press the 99 percent Muslim country to give its Christian community more rights. Some of those Christians are forced to worship in so-called apartment churches, and suffer prejudice, discrimination, even assault.The pope will discuss the rights of the religious minority with Turkish officials, said Monsignor Luigi Padovese, the pope's vicar in Anatolia. In a secular country, people must have the right to believe in whatever faith they choose to believe.

The pastor of Kurtulus Church, the Rev. Ihsan Ozbek, sees an opening for dialogue. We face serious problems. Turkish citizens who converted to Christianity, especially, face serious discrimination and violence, he said.The windows of his makeshift chapel have twice been smashed by suspected Turkish nationalists, reflecting a widely held conviction that conversion is treason and that Christian clergy are missionaries or spies for Western powers.Of Turkey's 70 million people, some 65,000 are Armenian Orthodox Christians, 20,000 are Roman Catholic, and 3,500 are Protestant, mostly converts from Islam. Another 2,000 are Greek Orthodox and 23,000 are Jewish.

The shrunken Christian presence belies the church's deep roots in latter-day Turkey.

Constantinople modern-day Istanbul was the Christian Byzantine capital for more than 1,000 years until it fell to Muslim forces in 1453 and became the seat of the Muslim Ottoman Empire.St. John the Apostle is said to have brought the Virgin Mary to Ephesus, 400 miles southeast of Istanbul, where she is believed to have spent her final years, while St. Paul traveled through much of modern-day Turkey on his missionary journeys.Iznik is the former Nicea, where early Christian doctrine was formulated in 325 A.D.

All seven major churches of early Christianity, mentioned in The New Testament, are in present-day Turkey. The pope will make a pilgrimage to one of them at Ephesus, 400 miles south of Istanbul.Today, Istanbul remains the center of Orthodoxy and the seat of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, considered the first among equals among the Orthodox leadership.

But membership is dwindling. The sole seminary training Orthodox monks was ordered closed in 1971, and no alternative site has been granted. Turkish law also makes it impossible to import non-Turkish seminarians, and requires that the patriarchs be Turkish citizens, severely reducing the pool of candidates to succeed 66-year-old Bartholomew.The Armenian Orthodox community's seminary is also closed, confronting it with the same challenge, while Greek and Armenian communities are struggling to recover property that the state confiscated in the 1970s.Turkey wants to join the European Union, which is pressing it for greater tolerance.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Islamic-rooted government has taken some steps toward change, amending laws to allow religious minorities to recover some property. The government has also indicated willingness to reopen the minority seminaries, but
has failed to find a formula that conforms with the country's secular laws.

Even though Turkey is secular and Turks are considered moderately religious, authorities often report students who attend Christian meetings to their families to prevent possible conversions, and proselytizers are detained and extradited.The distrust is so deep that non-Muslims are barred from the police force andmilitary.In February, a Turkish teenager shot dead a Catholic priest, Rev. Andrea Santoro, as he knelt in prayer in his church in the Black Sea port of Trabzon. The attack was believed linked to widespread anger in the Islamic world over the publication in European newspapers of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Two other Catholic priests were attacked this year.

West must prepare for Chinese, Indian dominance: Wolfensohn Sun Nov 26, 3:39 AM ET

SYDNEY (AFP) Western nations must prepare for a future dominated by China and India, whose rapid economic rise will soon fundamentally alter the balance of power, former World Bank chief James Wolfensohn has warned.

Wealthy countries were failing to understand the impact of the invevitable growth of the two Asian powerhouses, Wolfensohn said in the 2006 Wallace Wurth Memorial Lecture at the University of New South Wales at the weekend.It's a world that is going to be in the hands of these countries which we now call developing, said Australian-born Wolfensohn, who held the top job at the global development bank for a decade until last year.Rich nations needed to try to capitalise on the inevitable emergence of what would become the engine of the world's economic activity before it was too late, he said.Most people in the rich countries don't really look at what's happening in these large developing countries, said Wolfensohn, who is now chairman of Citigroup International Advisory Board and his own investment and advisory firm.

Within 25 years, the combined gross domestic products of China and India would exceed those of the Group of Seven wealthy nations, he said.This is not a trivial advance, this is a monumental advance.Wolfensohn said that somewhere between 2030 and 2040, China would become the largest economy in the world, leaving the United States behind.By 2050, China's current two trillion US dollar GDP was set to balloon to 48.6 trillion, while that of India, whose economy weighs in at under a trillion dollars, would hit 27 trillion, he said, citing projections by investment bank Goldman Sachs.

In comparison, the US's 13 trillion dollar income would expand to only 37 trillion 10 trillion behind China.You will have in the growth of these countries a 22 times growth between now and the year 2050 and the current rich countries will grow maybe 2.5 times.In light of these forecasts, it was clear that Western nations and Australia were not investing enough in educating the next generation to be able to take advantage of the coming realignment, he said.

The fact that not enough of our young people are preparing themselves with knowledge, experience, residence and language to deal certainly with China, although India has the benefit of an English language, it does seem to me that it presents a formidable challenge.Wolfensohn pointed to both China's and India's recent substantial investments in Africa as an example of how the two emerging giants were exercising their increasing clout on the global stage.Within the last two weeks the world has been put on notice that Africa is no longer the basket case that everybody had historically thought it was but is now front and centre in terms of development by India and China.The phenomenal rally by the two countries was a return to form rather than a novelty, he said, as they together had accounted for 50 percent of global GDP from the 1500s until the industrial revolution reduced that to between five and seven percent.

Jordan's king sees possibility of three civil wars in Mideast
The Associated PressPublished: November 26, 2006

WASHINGTON: Jordan's King Abdullah said Sunday the problems in the Middle East go beyond the war in Iraq and that much of the region soon could become engulfed in violence unless the central issues are addressed quickly.

We could possibly imagine going into 2007 and having three civil wars on our hands, he said, citing conflicts in Iraq, Lebanon and the decades-long strife between the Palestinians and Israelis.Therefore, it is time that we really take a strong step forward as part of the international community and make sure we avert the Middle East from a tremendous crisis that I fear, and I see could possibly happen in 2007, he said.Speaking on ABC's This Week, Abdullah said he remained hopeful a summit he will host this week in Amman with President George W. Bush and the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, will somehow lower the sectarian violence that threatens to push Iraq into all-out civil war.

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The challenges, obviously, in front of both of them are immense, the king said.We have to make sure that all parties in Iraq understand the dangers of the ongoing escalation. I hope Prime Minister Maliki will have some ideas ... on how he can be inclusive in bringing all the different sects inside of Iraq together.

They need to do it now, he said, because, obviously, as we're seeing, things are beginning to spiral out of control.The king spoke of the urgent for a change in course in Iraq.There needs to be some very strong action taken on the ground there today, he said. I don't think we're in a position where we can come back and revisit the problem in early 2007. There needs to be a strategy. There needs to be a plan that brings all the parties together, and bring them today and not tomorrow.

Bush plans to fly to Jordan after attending a NATO summit in Latvia. Vice President Dick Cheney made a quick trip to Saudi Arabia for talks on Saturday as part of the administration's effort to bring peace to the region.The Iraqi prime minister is under pressure from Shiite politicians loyal to the radical anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr who have threatened to boycott parliament and the Cabinet if al-Maliki meets with Bush. Sadr and his followers are a mainstay of his political support.This is all political posturing. It's all red herring. It's an anti-threat. This is a very stable government, responded Iraq's national security adviser, Mouwafak al-Rubaie,in an interview Sunday on Late Edition on CNN. He said he had no doubt the prime minister would meet with Bush in Jordan.

Abdullah said it is natural that Americans, with troops fighting in Iraq, view that war as the major problem in the Middle East.But, for the majority of us living in this part of the world, it has always been the Israeli-Palestinian, Israeli-Arab problem. I fear that if we do not use the next couple of months to really be able to push the process forward, I don't believe that there will be anything to talk about.Unless something is done soon to lower the tension, he said, the two-state solution of Israel and an independent Palestinian state existing side by side becomes less a possibility.If we don't solve the Israeli-Palestinian problem then how can we ever solve the Israeli-Arab problem? he said.Do we resign this whole region to another decade or two of violence?

The king said that he hoped in his discussions with Bush, the leaders can concentrate ourselves on the core issues, which we believe are the Palestinians and the Palestinian peace process, because that is a must today, as well as the tremendous concern we've had over the past several days, (with) what's happening in Lebanon.Lebanon's political crisis escalated last week with the assassination of an anti-Syrian politician, raising worries of more violence that could tear apart the country apart along its fragile sectarian lines.

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER (A COLLAPSE)

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

Stormy end to November may spell disaster for the dollar
By Edmund Conway and Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Last Updated: 2:05am GMT 27/11/2006

Markets worldwide are braced for a stormy week of trading, amid fears that the plunging dollar will cause stocks and shares to tumble.With the dollar expected to fall further, some are even forecasting that the pound could sail through the $2-mark in the days ahead.After the long Thanksgiving weekend, the US wakes up today to concerns that Europe and Asia may not be able to be engines of global growth if America slows next year.The Dow Jones has remained robust, recently hitting a high on hopes that the US housing slump would prove short-lived. However recent data has suggested that the plunge in new home sales could have serious knock-on effects for the wider economy. This has prompted fears that US corporate profits could disappoint next year.

Expectations that the Federal Reserve may soon start cutting interest rates, and hints from the Chinese central bank that it might diversify its currency reserves, have prompted funds to sell off dollars, causing the greenback to fall last week to an 18-month low against the euro and the pound.

Michael Metz, chief investment strategist at Oppenheimer & Co, said: We may be entering a period of trouble for stocks and a sharp drop in the dollar may provide more excuses to sell.America fears falling house prices will drive shoppers away from the high street. Retail giant Wal-Mart said its like-for-like sales dropped 0.1pc in November. However, a survey yesterday showed sales on so-called Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year, rose by a healthy 6pc.Many market watchers had been anticipating the dollar's slide for months, none more so than Paul Volcker, former Fed chairman. He said: It's incredible people have gone on so long holding dollars.

Despite truce, Palestinian attacks go on By AMY TEIBEL and IBRAHIM BARZAK, Associated Press Writer NOV 26,06

JERUSALEM /Israeli troops withdrew from the Gaza Strip as an unexpected truce took hold Sunday, but two major Palestinian militant groups, saying they had no intention of stopping their attacks, fired volleys of homemade rockets into Israel.

The rocket attacks by Hamas and Islamic Jihad tempered hopes for a lasting cease-fire, which was meant to end five months of deadly clashes. The rockets landed in open fields and caused no injuries.Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ordered his security chiefs to send their forces to the Gaza border area to prevent further rocket attacks, according to Palestinian security officials.

The instructions are clear. Anyone violating the national agreement will be considered to be breaking the law, said Lt. Gen. Abdel Razek Mejaidie.Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ordered the army to show restraint in the face of the rockets.

Even though there are still violations of the cease-fire by the Palestinian side, I have instructed our defense officials not to respond, to show restraint, and to give this cease-fire a chance to take full effect, he said.A senior Israeli official said Israel would wait a few hours to see if the attacks were isolated breaches or a full-scale violation of the agreement before deciding whether to respond. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.The truce, if it holds, would be a coup for Abbas, who has been trying for months to end the violence in Gaza. He has also been working to end crippling international sanctions imposed on the Palestinian Authority when the militant Hamas group won January parliamentary elections and formed a Cabinet.Abbas, a moderate from the Fatah Party, was elected separately last year.

The two sides announced the truce late Saturday after Abbas telephoned Olmert with an agreement from Palestinian militant groups to halt rocket fire and other violence from Gaza.Olmert pledged to end the military offensive in Gaza, launched in June after Hamas militants in Gaza conducted a cross-border raid on a military outpost, killing two soldiers and capturing one other.The violence has claimed the lives of more than 300 Palestinians and five Israelis. Most of the Palestinians killed have been militants, but scores of civilians have been killed as well, including 19 members of an extended family killed earlier this month in a botched Israeli artillery attack.Ahead of the new agreement, which took effect at 6 a.m. Sunday, Israel pulled all its forces out of Gaza, the army said.

Dozens of tanks and armored vehicles were parked just over the border in a military staging ground in southern Israel early Sunday.

But Israeli police reported at least four rockets fired at the Israeli town of Sderot and an Associated Press photographer in the border town heard at least two more strikes. Another AP photographer in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun heard several rockets fired throughout the morning.Let's hope that's just the problems of the beginning, said Olmert's spokeswoman, Miri Eisin. But if Israel is attacked, we will respond. If there are Palestinian factions that are not part of the cease-fire, it's hard to see how the cease-fire will hold.Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said he had contacted the leaders of all the Palestinian factions Sunday and they reassured him they were committed to the truce.There is a 100 percent effort to make this work, but there is no guarantee of 100 percent results, said Ghazi Hamad, a spokesman for the Hamas-led government.Hamas own militants claimed responsibility for firing rockets into Israel after the truce took hold, clouding prospects for the truce's longevity. The Hamas militants said they continued their attacks because some Israeli troops remained inside Gaza, an accusation Israel denied. (We) reiterate that our attacks against the enemy continue, the group said in a statement posted on its Web site.

Islamic Jihad also claimed responsibility for firing rockets into Israel and a spokesman, Abu Hamza, denied his group had signed on to the truce, contradicting statements from Islamic Jihad leaders. Israeli forces originally entered Gaza to try to recover the soldier captured in a June 25 cross-border raid, but they soon widened their objectives to target militants firing rockets into Israel. The violence cut short efforts by Olmert and Abbas to restart peace talks.

A truce could help create momentum for new talks. We welcome the announcement and see this as a positive step forward, White House spokesman Alex Conant said Saturday evening in Washington. We hope it leads to less violence for the Israeli and Palestinian people. Israel has no ties with the Hamas government, which rejects the Jewish state's right to exist, but it considers Abbas an acceptable negotiating partner. He and Olmert agreed months ago to meet, but Abbas has balked at setting a date without assurances the meeting would yield real dividends for him, such as a release of Palestinian prisoners Israel holds. Olmert has said no prisoners would be released to Hamas before the captured soldier is freed. Associated Press reporter Ibrahim Barzak reported from Gaza City, Gaza Strip.