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Danish
MP appointed as Evangelical Alliance rep in Brussels
Copenhagen, June 8th, 2005 (ACPress.net).
The European Evangelical
Alliance has appointed an ex-Danish MP to represent evangelicals
in the European Union. Tove Videbaek has served in the Danish
Parliament for the last 7 years, and previously worked in both
the media and the Protestant Church.
Videbaek took up her new post on June 1st, alongside Julia Doxat-Purser
who did the job before her, and who now has a wider role encouraging
evangelical Christians to get involved in the political process.
Videbaek will seek to promote Christian social and ethical values
which, historically, have been at the core of European culture,
but which are coming under great threat from secularisation
and the deliberate removal of references to Christianity in
documents such as the flawed European Constitution.
The European Evangelical Alliance is made up of 33 national
branches and is committed to making a positive contribution
to the spiritual welfare of Europe in the 21st century. It represents
Christians from Ireland to Kazakhstan, from Portugal to Russia.
Videbaek herself says of her role: “Our political realism
is driven by a vision for just societies with values which have
contributed significantly to social welfare for centuries.”
>From January 1994, Doxat-Purser was the socio-political
representative of the Alliance in Brussels. In March 2002, the
Alliance decided to strengthen this work by increasing the team,
a decision which led to the appointment of Videbaek, allowing
Doxat-Purser to engage on a wider role. Doxat-Purser is due
in Madrid in October for a series of meetings with politicians
and journalists in an attempt to broaden and clarify the profile
of evangelicals in Spain to a Press and political set which
has little idea as to who they are nor what they represent.
Source: EEA. Editing: ACPress.net
Miracle saves soldiers
in the Andes
Santiago, June 23rd, 2005 (ACPress.net).
The story of a
miracle in the Chilean Andes comes from the tragedy which enveloped
an army regiment caught on the mountains in a blizzard, and
on the point of freezing to death.
One of the groups involved in the march included Carlos Grandón,
an army chaplain and evangelical pastor. That night, in the
darkness and the storm, his faith was tested to the limit. “When
we crossed the sector between Los Barros and La Cortina, with
strong winds and snow that prevented us from advancing and hardly
able to breathe because of the snow being blown in our faces,
I told the soldiers to have faith that God was with them. We
lost our way, we couldn’t see a thing and I began to pray
and call on God.”
Suddenly, the miracle occurred. “On my right, two little
birds appeared and began to sing and move. A ray of sunlight
appeared for a moment, and when the soldiers asked ‘Which
way should we go?’, I shouted, ‘Follow the light’.”
Later, other soldiers corroborated Grandon’s story, with
this explanation: “Grandon told us they were two angels
from heaven guiding us. The birds began to play in the air and
they led us to La Cortina, three kilometres away from where
we were, and we were saved.”
Source: La Cuarta. Editing: ACPress.net
Temple remains found
in pile of rubble in Jerusalem
Tel Aviv, June 23rd, 2005 (ACPress.net).
An archaeologist
from Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv, Gabriel Barkay, has found
remains of the first and second temples in Jerusalem among the
ten tons of rubble thrown onto a rubbish tip.
The rubble was dumped 6 years ago by the Superior Islamic Council
when excavating the foundations for a new mosque in the old
city, on land on which it is believed stood Solomon’s
stables. Among the finds are a small jar for liquid or perfume,
the silhouette of a goat, many pieces of clay dating from the
Bronze Age and a fragment from a marble column. There is also
a door jamb from Herod’s temple from before its destruction
by the Romans in AD 70, as well as coins from that period.
Barkay accuses the Antiquities Authority in Israel of failing
in its mission, which includes the investigation of rubble dumped
by the Palestinian authority. He took on the task himself, with
a group of colleagues and volunteers, and spent 5 months sifting
through the rubble. They unearthed more than 100 ancient coins,
some from the Hasmonean period of Hellenic dominance. One of
them bears the inscription ‘For the liberty of Zion’,
the name of the mountain next to the temple. They also uncovered
many oil lamps and an ivory comb.
Source: La Segunda, Entrecristianos.com. Editing: ACPress.net
Democracy without
Christian roots is unthinkable
Hamburg, June 23rd, 2005 (ACPress.net).
The leader of
the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in Germany, Angela Merkel,
who is also the daughter of a Protestant minister, called on
society to keep its Christian values because they are the foundation
of democracy.
“A democracy without Christian roots is unthinkable”,
said the candidate for the Chancellorship at a meeting of the
evangelical working-group of her party. She reminded them that
the ‘C’ is part of the party’s name “and
we have not the slightest intention of separating ourselves
from that letter.” Merkel was responding to accusations
by the Catholic Archbishop of Cologne, Joachim Meiser, who said
the CDU had forgotten its Christian roots and that it would
be better to get rid of the ‘C’ in its name.
Merkel promised that if her party wins the elections which have
been called for September, there will be improvements in several
federated states, as well as a “strengthening of Christian
values”, starting in schools. “Education is not
merely about giving information”, says Merkel, who believes
Religious Education should be part of the syllabus.
The exclusion of any reference to the Christian roots of Europe
was one of the most controversial points of the proposed European
Constitution, which has recently been gloriously rejected by
referendums in France and Holland.
Source: Agencias. Editing: ACPress.net
A.C.Press:
The News Agency of the AEE (Spanish Evangelical Alliance)
Digital magazine at the website: www.ACPress.net
Telephone: 91 747 14 89; Fax: 91 747 59 24; E-mail: noticias@ACPress.net.
Postal address: Apartado 59198, 28080 Madrid, Spain.
Co-ordinator of A.C.Press News: Jonathan Dawson, E-mail: jdawson@acpress.net
A.C.Press is part of the Spanish Evangelical Alliance, whose
E-mail is: oficina@AEEsp.net (www.AEEsp.net)
The Alliance is a forum for fellowship, reflection and the development
of Christian thought, produces various publications, and is
involved in the struggle for religious liberty. It is also part
of the European and World Evangelical Alliances.
A.C.Press news items may be reproduced as long as their source
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