Petition to support religios freedom in Japan

Below is the content of an email witch I received via church today:
Stop Japan Abductions !

Petition for Religious Freedom in Japan

Sign our petition and urge Congress to hold hearings before the end of the year about religious and human rights abuses taking place in Japan – one of America’s great trading partners. These hearings should be held by the Tom Lantos Commission on Human Rights, co-chaired by Rep. James McGovern (D-MA) and Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA).

Religious freedom is fundamental to the ability of civilized peoples to live together peacefully. Individuals around the world should be able to exercise their inherent right to express their faith and live a life grounded in convictions of their hearts and souls without government coercion or interference.

For too many years, the Japanese government has abused the fundamental principles of religious freedom by turning a blind eye to atrocities against individuals who practice religion not sanctioned by the government. As one of America’s great allies and trading partners, Japan must put an immediate end to religious persecution.

The U.S. State Department’s Religious Freedom Report has published complaints every year since 1999 that Japanese authorities are not enforcing their own laws regarding kidnapping, physical restraint and physical abuse of Unification Church members.

By signing this petition, tell the United States Congress to hold hearings on these religious freedom and human rights violations and hold the country of Japan accountable.

To sign the petition, please click on: http://stopjapanabductions.org

FOREF Europe
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Fwd: SCAM EMAIL FROM YONG CHEOL SONG

Here is an urgent message from the European headquarters of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification. The basic message is that President Song (President - FFWPU Europe) is not in Africa and is not in any special need of financial assistance.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Knut Holdhus
Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:56 PM
Subject: Fwd: SCAM EMAIL FROM YONG CHEOL SONG

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From: European Office
Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 7:31 PM
Subject: SCAM EMAIL FROM YONG CHEOL SONG

SCAM EMAIL IN THE NAME OF YONG CHEOL SONG

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Dear European Leaders,

Please be aware that the email message below is a scam trying to get you to send money.

President Song is NOT in Africa and NOT in need of any financial support.

Yours sincerely,

Tim Miller and Peter Staudinger

European Office

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From: YONG CHEOL SONG
Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Subject: Hello
To:
Hello,
How are you doing today? I'm sorry i didn't inform you about my traveling to Africa for a program called "Empowering Youth to Fight Racism, HIV/AIDS, Poverty and Lack of Education, The program is taking place in three major countries in Africa which is Ghana , South Africa and Nigeria . It as been a very sad and bad moment for me, the present condition that i found myself is very hard for me to explain.
I am really stranded in Nigeria because I forgot my little bag in the Taxi where my money, passport, documents and other valuable things were kept on my way to the Hotel I'm staying, I'm facing a hard time here because I have no money on me. I am now owning a hotel bill of 750.00 pounds and they wanted me to pay the bill soon else they will have to seize my bag and hand me over to the Hotel Management, I need this help from you urgently to help me back home, I need you to help me with the hotel bill and I will also need 250.00 pounds to feed and help myself back home, So please can you help me with a sum of 1000.00 pounds to sort out my problems here? I need this help so much and on time because I'm in a terrible and tight situation here, I don't even have money to feed myself for a day which means I had been starving so please understand how urgent I need your help.
I'm sending you this e-mail from the city Library and I only have 30 min, I will appreciate what so ever you can afford to send me for now and I promise to pay back your money as soon as I return home ,Please let me know on time so that I can forward you the details you need to transfer the money through Money Gram or Western Union.
Hope to hear from you.
thanks

Thank you for reading. Please spread this news so that those who got this email will no not to respond to it or send any confidential information.

Centering on True Love,

Christopher D. Osborn
Bergen, Hordaland, Norge

Fwd: European Blessed Family Department - Invitation to the 23rd European Blessing Workshop

Here's a message from the European Blessed Family Department and European Second Generation Blessing Affairs of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification - Europe.

Emails have been either deleted or slightly edited for security reasons. Also, some blank space with deleted for convenience sake. Otherwise, the messege is exactly how I received it.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Knut Holdhus
Date: Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Subject: Fwd: European Blessed Family Department - Invitation to the 23rd European Blessing Workshop

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: European Office
Date: Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 5:18 PM
Subject: European Blessed Family Department - Invitation to the 23rd European Blessing Workshop

European Blessed Family Department

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Invitation to the 23^rd European Blessing Workshop

Please ensure that a copy of this letter is given to all Second Generation over 17 years of age and their Parents in your country!

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It is my great pleasure to inform you about the upcoming blessing Workshop in Europe. Especially during this time when the True Parents have taken responsibility to conduct matchings and Blessings for the Second Generation it is important, that we are well informed and prepared to attend our True Parents and prepare well for receiving the blessing. As parents will also continue to do matchings it is important also to understand well how we can fulfil this responsibility as Blessed Families.

The Blessing WS will be a time for the participants, both the parents and the 2^nd Generation members, to prepare for the Matching process and the Blessing. We will use the time to go in detail into the meaning and process of the Blessing as well as how we can and should prepare ourselves in our hearts as well as practically for attending God and TP through the Blessing. There will be time to share and also work on one's personal situation.

Please note that people who have not attending a Blessing workshop will not be eligible to attend the Blessing.

23^rd Blessing WS:

Invited are: All Second Generation over 17 years of age (born on or before February 31^st of 1992) and all Parents who have children in this age.

Dates: 9^th – 12^th April 2009

Arrival/Departure: by 4 pm on the 9^th of April– 2 pm on the 12^th of April 2009

Place: Grävenwiesbach, Germany

Hasselborner Str. 20

61279 Grävenwiesbach/Ts

(http://www.djh-hessen.de/jh/graevenwiesbach)

Cost: 110 euro (100 euro for every further member of the same family).

Registration: Please register with Tadatoshi in the ESGD (tada(at)esgd.org / Tel: 0049 69 74745933).

If you have any questions feel free to contact the ESGD.

Please bring: slippers, notes, sleeping bag is not needed.

Please also note, that the Blessing homepage is accessible: www.2ndgenblessing.com

Here you will be able to find all information concerning the Blessing, the application process and also about the upcoming Blessing WS. Feel free to take a look and send us comments or questions.

Yours sincerely,

Pres. Yong-Cheol Song

President FFWPU – Europe

Geros Kunkel

European Second Generation Blessing Affairs

www.esgd.org / www.2ndgenblessing.com

Centering on True Love, for The Fight for Cheon-Il-Guk,

Christopher D. Osborn
Bergen, Hordaland, Norge

Fwd: Congo: Time to Act

Have you ever seen the movie Hotel Rwanda? How about Blood Diomond? Well, it seems as though what is going on right now in Eastern Congo is like a combination of both of these situations. Different nations and other groups are fighting eachother for natural recourses, while the same groups from Rawanda are at the killing and raping of civilians again, this time in Eastern Congo(where they fled from prosecution after the Rwanda Genocide). Oh, and once again United Nations troops are present, but aren't accomplishing anything whatsoever.

Accourding to Avaaz (I know it wounds like some sort of terrorist organization, but it looks like a lagitimate not for profit based in Europe, Canada, and the United States) anyway, the U.N. troops stationed there are not allowed to protect civillians, while they have been fighting nalongside the Congolise army, and have been accused of sheltering pro-government mallitias.

If that last statement is true, here's what I think should happen. First, the current U.N. force should be fulled out, for they are already in the mindset of taking a side. Second, I new dominantly french-speaking U.N. peacekeeping force should be deployed with the express mission to protect civillians and provide a safe zone for peacekeeping talks to occur. Finally, reconcilliation experts from the United Nations and the Universal Peace Federartion should be sent to this no-fighting zone to help calm to mood and allow for fair-minded treaties to be written and signd. Once treaties are signed, the United Nations Troops are not to leave until these traties are actually implimented. In addition, justice must be had and those who have commited crimes must be put on trial and punished through the International Criminal Tribunal.

Below is some information and a plea for help from Avaaz, and indipendent global NGO that works to ensure the views and values of the world's people inform global decision-making.

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Paul Hilder - Avaaz.org Date: 2008/11/12 Subject: Congo: Time to Act Dear friends, The people of Congo are being terrorised -- they need protection urgently, Europe could help but our leaders are delaying -- call on them to act urgently to protect civilians: Take action now The people of Congo need our help. In recent weeks over 200,000 people have been driven from their homes, and murder and rape are rife. Families are running for their lives, caught between the brutal violence of both the rebels and the Congolese army. But shockingly, European foreign ministers meeting earlier this week said it's too early to act. Europe can deploy a well-equipped protection force to be on the ground in two weeks - no one else can get such a capable presence in that fast. European engagement could push back the armed groups and put real pressure on Congo and neighbouring countries, curbing this humanitarian disaster and making peace possible. This tough crisis will not be solved militarily, but civilians need protection now, and facing down the warlords on all sides will make a political deal more likely. The lesson of Rwanda was to step in before it's too late -- Europe's politicians seem to have forgotten that. The people of eastern Congo need us urgently. Send a message to your leader and forward this email to friends and family -- we'll also place our message in newspapers around Europe, so follow this link to take action: http://www.avaaz.org/en/european_action_on_congo/?cl=147002389&v=2418 The recent clashes between General Nkunda's militias and the Congolese army are the latest in a place where the population has been attacked and terrorised for years by armed groups. Over five million people have been killed. It's been termed 'Africa's world war', with Rwanda, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia all getting involved. The fighting is fed by a lethal war economy based on the extraction of minerals such as coltan, cobalt, diamonds and gold, to which we're all connected through the worldwide market. Allegations abound of Angolan and Zimbabwean troops fighting alongside the Congolese army -- Congolese army soldiers committing atrocities and working with militias including the Rwandan Hutu Forces, some of whose leaders were responsible for the 1994 Rwandan genocide -- and the Rwandan army supporting General Nkunda to muscle the Congolese government to fulfill its commitment to demobilise these same Hutu militias. So it is no surprise that African-only diplomacy is faltering. The United Nations mission (MONUC) is in Congo to keep the peace between this web of armed groups, but recently it has made clear statements that it cannot protect civilians. We have heard reliably that MONUC are desperate for a rapid EU bridging force to do what they can't and start restoring international legitimacy, which has been lost through overstretch and perceptions of taking sides -- UN troops have fought alongside the Congolese army and are even accused of sheltering pro-government militias. To have a credible and effective force the United Nations mission will soon have to be reformed and redeployed. In the longer term, the international community needs to be a strong and honest broker to ensure implementation of peace agreements and confront the underlying issues feeding this war. If Europe sends a short-term, neutral force to the region now to protect civilians, it can start to change the terms of this brutal game -- providing a basis both to defend the defenceless and to apply political leverage to all sides. Click below to send a message asking your own country's leader to support action now: http://www.avaaz.org/en/european_action_on_congo/?cl=147002389&v=2418 We cannot let the best chance to stop the terror in Congo slip by as European leaders turn their backs. Congo needs concerted engagement now. Europe is providing millions in aid to Congo and Rwanda to ensure reconstruction and development, but without a more forceful and permanent push, there will be no peace to keep. Let's flood European leaders with requests for firm action. Sign the petition and please send it to your friends and family: http://www.avaaz.org/en/european_action_on_congo/?cl=147002389&v=2418 With hope, Paul, Alice, Pascal, Ricken, Ben, Paula, Brett, Graziela, Iain and Milena - the Avaaz.org team PS: For a report on Avaaz's campaigning so far, see: https://secure.avaaz.org/en/report_back_2 PSS: Here are links to sources for this alert: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article5126970.ece http://www.monuc.org/news.aspx?newsID=18960 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/10/congo-kiwanja-un-goma-angola-laurent-nkunda-war-crimes-fighting http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/congos-tragedy-the-war-the-world-has-forgotten-14023616.html http://www.monuc.org/news.aspx?newsID=18996 http://www.un.org/News/briefings/docs/2008/081107_Mulet.doc.htm ABOUT AVAAZ Avaaz.org is an independent, not-for-profit global campaigning organization that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people inform global decision-making. 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Matching/Blessing: Korea, February 2009

Below is a letter from the the head of the European Blessed Family Department/European Second Generation Blessing Affairs of FFWPU/HSA-UWC describing a little detail of a matching/blessing marriage ceremonies to be held in Korea in February 2009.

To : All Blessed Families

From : Geros Kunkel
Refer : Blessing February 1st 2009
Date : 4th November 2008 Pages including this front page: 1



Dear Blessed Families,

I would like to announce in advance, that there will be a Blessing on February 1st 2009 after True Parents 90th Birthday. In the days before that there will also be a matching by True Father for 2nd Generation Blessing candidates.

We are still working to prepare the official Letter concerning the details of the upcoming Matching and Blessing, therefore please wait for further announcements. We cannot say any details yet, concerning who will be eligible to attend the matching or details regarding the schedule and events in Korea around that time.

If you wish to attend either the Matching and Blessing or the Blessing as a matched couple, please get in touch with me and prepare now, so that you can be informed about further details.

For the Blessing Application, please go to: www.2ndgenblessing.com where you will find all info, requirements, forms, etc. concerning the Blessing Application process.

If you have any questions, please feel free to be in touch with me. geros (at) esgd.org

Yours sincerely,

Geros Kunkel
European Blessed Family Department
European Second Generation Blessing Affairs