Under the progressive socialist leadership of Lula, Brazil is joining that elite group of nations: the USSR, Nazi Germany, communist China, Cuba etc.
Posted on 05/21/2005 9:46:57 PM PDT by endthematrix
Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 22 (AP): Churches in Brazil joined the government's disarmament campaign on Saturday, hoping to call attention to an upcoming national referendum that could completely ban the commercial sale of firearms.
Catholic, Orthodox, Presbyterian and Lutheran churches across Brazil opened their doors to allow people to voluntarily turn in their guns, the official Agencia Brasil news service reported. The churches will be taking the firearms until the end of the nationwide disarmament campaign on June 23.
Hoping to curb violence, the government and several nonprofit organizations launched the disarmament campaign in July last year. In October, Brazilians will decide in a national referendum whether the commercial sale of guns should be entirely banned in the country.
The churches hoped to net about 100,000 guns until the end of the campaign, the Agencia Brasil said. The government has already recovered more than 300,000 firearms with a buyback program that was instituted when the campaign started.
Thes churches scare the heck out of me. And they are the same churches plus a few others in the US who would help to do the same here.
Under the progressive socialist leadership of Lula, Brazil is joining that elite group of nations: the USSR, Nazi Germany, communist China, Cuba etc.
sooner or later, the common Brazilian will rue this trend.
That's what the National and International Socialists always
do...
Get the guns out of the hands that would oppose them in what
they are about to do...
Our founding fathers understood that all men abuse power
and needed to be 'checked'
Beware of any government that seeks to subvert those checks and balances..and seeks to disarm 'we the people'
imo
Catholic, Orthodox, Presbyterian and Lutheran churches across Brazil opened their doors to allow people to voluntarily turn in their guns, the official Agencia Brasil news service reported. The churches will be taking the firearms until the end of the nationwide disarmament campaign on June 23.
These are the same churches that are actively working with the UN on world disarmament. The U.S. is in their sights too. The Lutheran and Presbyterian are the worst.
As a Catholic, I was particularly irked at that.
The UN gun grab.
In July 2005, governments, UN agencies and NGOs will gather for the Second Biennial Meeting of States to Consider the Implementation of the Programme of Action (BMS).
http://www.iansa.org/un/bulletin1.htm
http://disarmament.un.org:8080/cab/salw.html
United Methodist,Catholic,Lutheran, Prebyterian,Reform Jewish,UCC, UU,Episcopalian,Quaker, Christian Scientology, Congregational all these in the US are involved. Even though the Catholic Church recognizes self-defense they are still for gun control. At least the Bishops are ie the hiearchy.
Supplementing WCC work with IANSA, Salpy Eskidjian, a member of the WCC International Relations Team responsible for peacebuilding and disarmament, coordinates an Ecumenical Network against Small Arms.
Also there is plenty of threads on the WCC on FR!
LOL!!!
As a Catholic, I was particularly irked at that.
I don't blame you. I would have found another church to attend. :-)
disgusting
You failed to mention Baptists, Orthodox, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Anglican, and the Society of Friends.
In July 2005, governments, UN agencies and NGOs will gather for the Second Biennial Meeting of States to Consider the Implementation of the Programme of Action (BMS).
http://www.iansa.org/un/bulletin1.htm
http://disarmament.un.org:8080/cab/salw.html
Thanks for the links. I knew they were meeting again this year, but I thought it was later this fall. It really chaps my butt that the UN and NGOs are plotting out our future. The NGOs are the ones that really make me mad. People like Bill Gates and Ted Turner.
Last century, governments killed only a paltry 100 million of their own peoples. It would appear that there may be an attempt to exceed that number this century with the willing assistance of the victims again.
So are they also going to shut down Taurus, Rossi and the other outfits that export guns and ammunition, or is this just affecting the proletariat?
South America is turning down a very bad road.
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