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Speakers at the PWR have advocated that religion should take part in the restructuring of
world power (i.e. the creation of a NWO). Speaking at the 2004 PWR in Barcelona, on the role
of religion in the “New Paradigm of International Relations”, Hans Küng, stated that, “from now
on religion should play a more constructive role from in the reordering of world power.”
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Concerning the mission statement of the PWR. Mission statements can be specific
statement designed to guide an organization or broad and vague statement made for public
consumption. For this reason, sometimes the true mission of an organization can be better
ascertained by who they are aligned with than by what they write for public consumption.
According to author Lee Penn, the PWR is closely aligned with and financially supports the
Millennium Institute (MI). Gerald Barney is President of the MI, an American Think Tank. Penn
reveals that Barney has heretical Christian views about the future of Christianity, about creation,
the divinity of man and about Christ’s return. Penn writes:
The Millennium Institute is supported by the Temple of Understanding
and the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions, which also support the
URI…. Barney tells the readers of Share International that Christianity and “many
other faiths” are “not sustainable”:… “Christianity, as it is commonly practiced
and institutionalized at present is not sustainable….That [Christianity] is my own
faith. But I have to say that, from what I know of many other faiths, I do not think
they are sustainable either…. Religion is a key part of our problem.”… Dr. Gerald
Barney's Global 2000 Revisited [states] “We know now that the characterizations
of man and woman, male and female, in the origin stories and traditions of many
faiths are factually wrong and socially destructive.... We humans have become co-
creators of the future with the Divine.”… Barney states that the “universe itself”
is the “primary, original source of religious insight,”… “It is destructive folly to
think that we humans are ‘created in God's image’… The idea is especially
dangerous that ultimately all things are going to be put right through an end of
this world, a second coming, or some kind of separating us from Earth [sic].”
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As can be seen the agenda of the PWR is in conflict with God’s agenda and is more in
line with the beast and the dragon of Revelation 13.
The United Religions Initiative
Bishop Swing, of Grace Episcopal Cathedral in San Francisco, is the founder of The
United Religions Initiative (URI). “The purpose of the United Religions Initiative is to promote
enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, to end religiously motivated violence and to create
cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings.”
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The charter
(constitution) for the URI was signed with a large public fanfare on June 26, 2000 in Pittsburgh,
PA. After the signing of the charter, an official from the UN called and extended an official
congratulations to Swing for the United Religions, which he had birthed.
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A six-month election process was completed with the election of twenty- seven members
to URI’s global council. This was “the first democratic global elections of an international
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