Witchcraft: The Emerging One World

Religion
A new report claims more than 50,000 women a year have deserted their
congregations in the UK over the past two decades because they feel the
church is not relevant to their lives. It says that instead young women
are becoming attracted to the pagan religion Wicca, where females play
a central role, which has grown in popularity after being featured
positively in films, TV shows and books. No one has to hunt for witches
anymore; they may own the house next door. Children are being lovingly
primed to embrace paganism by movies, games, TV, the Internet and
countless sorcery–friendly books. There is certainly no parallel in
current pop culture to the Harry Potter books. Not only the books
themselves but a plethora of offshoots abound, from The Sorcerer’s
Companion: A Guide to the Magical World of Harry Potter by Allan Zola
Kronzek and Elizabeth Kronzek, to The Everything Kids’ Witches and
Wizards Book by L.T. Samuels. The truth is that witchcraft is real, and so
is the unchanging Christian prohibition against it. There is no difference
between white or black witchcraft; neither involve the Biblically revealed
Creator Jesus Christ as Lord & Savior, so both are elements of rebellion
used for selfish, not Christ–centered purposes. The bottom line is the
source of the lying signs, wonders and miracles (that the Bible
clearly predicts will deceive the whole world) will derive their power from
witchcraft & witchcraft is therefore the essence of the coming one world
religion.

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The Bad News: More Than 50,000 Woman Per

Year Leaving Church For Witchcraft
The report claims more than 50,000 women a year have deserted their
congregations over the past two decades because they feel the church is not
relevant to their lives. It says that instead young women are becoming attracted
to the pagan religion Wicca, where females play a central role, which has grown
in popularity after being featured positively in films, TV shows and books. The
study comes amid ongoing controversy over the role of women in all Christian
denominations. Last month its governing body voted to allow women to
become bishops for the first time, having admitted them to the priesthood in
1994, but traditionalist bishops have warned that hundreds of clergy and
parishes will leave if the move goes ahead as planned. The report's author, Dr
Kristin Aune, a sociologist at the University of Derby, said: "In short, women
are abandoning the church. "Because of its focus on female empowerment,
young women are attracted by Wicca, popularised by the TV series Buffy the
Vampire Slayer. "Young women tend to express egalitarian values and dislike
the traditionalism and hierarchies they imagine are integral to the church.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/2603343/Buffy-the-
Vampire-Slayer-slaying-church-attendance-among-women-study-claims.html

Volume XXVII Issue IX September 2008

Last Trumpet Ministries, PO Box 806, Beaver Dam, WI 53916
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America – A Place Where Demons Gather!

http://www.lasttrumpetministries.org/2008/September2008a.html
Mexico is magical to its warlocks and
witches
By James C. Mckinley Jr.

Published: March 28, 2008

CATEMACO, Mexico: To kill a man, Alejandro Gallegos García explains, all you need is a black cloth doll,

some thread, a human bone and a toad. Oh, and you must ask the devil permission, in person, at a cave

in the hills where he is said to appear.

Assuming you have these things, plus the green light from the prince of darkness, you simply lash the

doll

to the bone, shove it down the unfortunate toad's throat, sew up its lips and take the whole mess to a

graveyard,

reciting the proper words.

"The person will die within 30 days," Gallegos said matter of factly, as if he were talking of fixing a broken

carburetor. (The toad dies too, by the by.)

"There exists good and bad in the world, there exists the devil and God," he went on, turning a serpent's

fang in his rough fingers. "I work in white magic and in black magic. But there are people who dedicate

themselves only to evil."

Gallegos, 48, is a traditional warlock, one of dozens who work in this idyllic town, nestled near the Gulf of

Mexico by Lake Catemaco in the state of Veracruz. Like most witches here, he melds European and native

traditions in his work, a special brew of occultism he learned from his uncle.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/28/america/28mexico.php
New head of voodoo brings on the charm
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti: The goat tethered to a tree outside of Max Beauvoir’s home is doomed.

Beauvoir, tall and majestic with closely cropped white hair, is a voodoo priest who was just named the

religion’s supreme master, a newly created position that is aimed at reviving voodoo.

His grand residence on the outskirts of the Haitian capital serves as a voodoo temple for practitioners

and a

late-night hangout for those paying customers eager to take in an exotic evening of spiritual awakening.

Called the Peristyle de Mariani, it is where Beauvoir and his followers dance around a giant totem to

the beat

of drums. It is where they light bonfires to summon the spirits. And it is where they drain the blood of

animals

like that scrawny white goat to, among other things, heal the sick.

On a recent night, Haiti’s voodooists convened for a special ceremony. With music blaring and devotees

dancing with all their might, two children threw white rose petals on a red carpet. Then along came

Beauvoir.

Popular in Haiti even among many of those who attend Christian churches, voodoo lacks the formal

hierarchy

of other religions. Most voodoo priests, known as houngans, operate semi-independently, catering to

their

followers without a whole lot of structure.

But many of Haiti’s houngans recently came together into a national federation and named Beauvoir,
72, as

their public face. He is now the spokesman for a religion that followers believe too often gets a bad

rap and

is in dire need of an image overhaul. (Think “voodoo economics.”) Even before he got the job,

Beauvoir was

a voodoo promoter extraordinaire. With his own Web site, www.vodou.org, and a following

among foreigners

intrigued by voodoo, Beauvoir is criticized by some purists as too much of a showman.

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21050

The white priestess of 'black magic'

By Andrew Walker
BBC News, Osogbo, Nigeria

Bent double by age, the high-priestess of Nigeria's Yoruba spirit-world shuffles forward from under the
trees, reaching out a white, blotchy hand in welcome.
Half a lifetime ago, Susanne Wenger dedicated herself to reviving the
traditions of the pre-Christian Yoruba gods, "the orishas", and left
Austria to make Nigeria her home.
The frail 94-year-old artist, with one seeing eye, has been a driving
force in Osogbo town, where she is in charge of the sacred grove, a
place where spirits of the river and trees are said to live.
In an upstairs room of her house, surrounded by carved wooden
figures of the gods, she receives well-wishers and devotees, who she Mrs Wenger resurrected the traditions of
blesses in fluent Yoruba. the river-god Osun

When she arrived here, she found traditional culture in abeyance, all but destroyed by missionaries who
branded it "black magic" or "juju", a word Mrs Wenger reviles.
Friends paint a picture of a dedicated, tough and far-sighted leader who has helped revive a culture
thought destroyed by Christian and Muslim evangelists, and secured protection for one of the Yoruba
tradition's most sacred sites. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7595841.stm
http://www.calastrology.com/goodluckpieces.html

Heresy in the Hood II: Witchcraft among

Children and Teens in America
It’s a different America today from the relative innocence of 1999, when I
first wrote about witchcraft among American youth.

That was the year Harry Potter burst upon the American scene. The year
before, Teen Witch: Wicca for a New Generation by Silver Ravenwolf was
published, offering how–to instructions specifically to curious
adolescents about the beliefs and practice of sorcery. The book has sold
over 150,000 copies, according to its author.{1}

Harry Potter was just an imaginative story, advocates claimed, and few
kids were seriously drawn to witchcraft. Any alarms were pure hysteria.

Well, here we are three years later, and a review of current TV shows,
children’s games, the latest titles from mighty Scholastic Books, a visit
to any local Borders or Barnes and Noble bookstore, or a review of
popular youth Web sites, should more than confirm our initial warnings.
Sorcery and witchcraft have become the hottest themes in youth culture
and education for the first time in modern Western civilization.

It’s past time for alarms; if we care about the spiritual integrity of our
children, the hour may have come for panic.

http://www.leaderu.com/theology/teenwitchcraft.html