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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 391
control. The URI came about by interaction between Bishop Swing and the U.N. The URI is
designed to bring about the one-world religion envisioned by U.N. staff and as prophesied in the
book of Revelation. It is not surprising that we find many of the same names associated with the
funding of the URI as with many other items on the agenda of those planning the NWO.
Bishop Swing’s Grace Cathedral has received funding from Laurance S. Rockefeller and
his Fund for the Enhancement of the Human Spirit (FEHS). Rockefeller and the FEHS have also
funded New Agers Matthew Fox and Barbara Marx Hubbard.
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According to Lee Penn,
“Foundation money has been essential to the URI from the start.” “In 1998, Bishop Swing said
that ‘ninety-nine percent’ of URI funding ‘is raised from private, nonreligious sources.’”
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The
following foundations provided grants to the URI and were a portion of the 99% nonreligious
funding received by the URI:
…the Soros Foundation and the Copen Family Foundation,
the
Christopher Columbus Foundation, the Surdna Fund, the Richard and Rhoda
Goldman Fund, the Community Foundation of Monterey County, the San
Francisco Foundation, the International Education and Resource Network, the
Worldwide Education and Research Institute, and the Arthur Vining Davis
Foundation.
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The URI also received a major grant of $1.7 million from an undisclosed foundation,
which enticed it to move from San Francisco to Pittsburgh.
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Some of the other contributing
foundations include: The Firedoll Foundation,
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The Bridging Tree Foundation,
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The
Bothin Foundation,
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United States Institute for Peace,
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The Greenville Foundation,
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The
Rudolf Steiner Foundation, and Lucis Trust.
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Marching Towards A One World Religion
The Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders
In August of 2000, the United Nations in New York was the location of the Millennium
World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders (Peace Summit). This was a first of its
kind gathering. The Peace Summit included 1,000 religious leaders from around the world. The
religious leaders represented the 15 leading religious faiths and most others. Among the faiths
represented were Ba'hai, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Indigenous Peoples,
Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism, and Zoroastrianism.
The fifteen leading religious faiths account for approximately 85% of the earth’s
population; Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism account for approximately 70% of the earth’s
population. Atheist and secularists make up about 14% of the earths population.
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The Peace Summit was also attended by many ecumenical organizations from the U.S.
Among others, these included: World Council of Religious Leaders, Parliament of the World’s
Religions, and the World Council of Churches.
The religious leaders met for the stated purpose of world peace, hence the title
Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders. A consensus of the Peace
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