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East Valley Tribune, www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=25274 , By Lawn Griffiths, July 24, 2004 PHOENIX (AZ): Billions of souls are at stake, the "Fatima Priest" relentlessly warns. The Roman Catholic Church is deep into apostasy, he argues, and it being undermined by the forces of modernism like Vatican Council II, "new world order" proponents, false religions, wayward priests, liberals, secular humanists, Communists, the Masonic Order and dilution from ecumenism's interfaith compromise. Moreover, the church has refrained from talking about hell or the consequences of sin - and the Catholic Church is failing to meet the devil's challenges, asserts the Rev. Nicholas Gruner, a hard-line traditional priest who is on a mission to end the "great apostasy" at the highest levels of the church. Such apostasy, he said, is epitomized by the Vatican's refusal to publicly reveal the true third part of the "Secret of Fatima," what the Blessed Mother of Jesus is said to have told three peasant children near the Portuguese village of Fatima during several visitations in 1917. The last surviving of the children, Sister Lucia dos Santos, now 96, wrote down the message in 1944 by order of a bishop and instructed that it be revealed to the world in 1960, or at the time of her death. What the Vatican purportedly released in June 2000 as the nun's "entire" 285-word translated text has been discredited by Gruner and others - some of whom called it "Fatima-gate." ... The third secret, he said, foretold that the "great apostasy in the church begins at the top" and began manifesting itself in the 1960s. It speaks of the great punishment or "chastisement" for the world, apostasy commencing in the Vatican, the crisis of faith in the Catholic Church and a preservation of dogma in Portugal but not elsewhere in the church. • Women receives 10-year sentence for stealing from church [Lamb] -- Methodist Ames Tribune, www.amestrib.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12405425&BRD=2035&PAG=461&dept_id=238101&rfi=6 , By Jason Kristufek, July 20, 2004 STORY (Nevarda): A Story City woman who admitted to stealing up to $175,000 from an Ames church was sent to prison for 10 years on Monday. Janine Joyce Lamb, 38, apologized for misappropriating the money over a three-year period but did not explain her actions to the 30 First United Methodist Church congregants that packed the Story County courtroom for her sentencing. "I am sorry to hear that she hasn't figured out why she did what she did," said retired senior pastor Larry LaVelle. Turning to Lamb he said, "We wish you the best. We love you. We love you." A tearful Lamb also spoke to Judge Michael Moon and urged for leniency. She said she is seeking treatment for depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. "I made a mistake," Lamb said. "I didn't realize how many people have been impacted. I don't understand what I've done, why I've done what I have done." Church members say the financial burden can be recovered over time. Volunteers have donated about 2,000 hours to fix the church's financial recording. Still, some fear the church's reputation may never recover. • Genocide: Trial of Catholic Priest to Begin September [Seromba] allAfrica.com ; http://allafrica.com/stories/200407300355.html , Hirondelle News Agency (Lausanne), July 30, 2004 ARUSHA, RWANDA, Africa: The trial of a Rwandan Catholic priest who is accused of genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1994 Rwandan genocide will begin September 20, 2004 at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). Father Athanase Seromba who hails from Rutsiro commune in Kibuye Prefecture (Western Rwanda) is charged with four counts including genocide, or in the alternative complicity in genocide, conspiracy to commit genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity. At the time of the genocide where an estimated one million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed, the accused was the parish priest in charge of Nyange Parish in Kivumu commune also in Kibuye. The indictment states that many refugees fled to hide in churches and public buildings but the genocide suspect "refused to celebrate mass for those who had taken refuge in the church and stressed that he didn't want to do that for the inyenzi", a Kinyarwanda word for cockroaches which was used at the time to refer to Tutsis. This is the first time the tribunal will adjudicate the trial of a Catholic priest accused of genocide. The prosecutor alleges that the accused along with a recently arrested former businessman from Kibuye, Gaspard Kanyarukiga, was on April 14th, 1994, involved in the massacre of some 6,000 Tutsis who had taken refuge at Nyange Parish church. During this incident, the indictment states that, "Father Seromba ordered the interahamwe and the militia to launch attacks to kill the Tutsis, beginning with the intellectuals. Soon after, the interahamwe poured fuel through the roof of the church while gendarmes and communal police launched grenades and killed the refugees" Later he ordered the church to be destroyed by a bulldozer saying that "Hutu people were numerous and could build another one" More than 2000 Tutsis who were gathered inside were crushed to death, then "Father Seromba ordered the interahamwe to clean the "rubbish". The Catholic priest surrendered himself to the tribunal on the 6th of February, 2002 and has since been held at the United Nations Detention Facility also in Arusha. According to the ICTR calendar, Father Seromba will be represented by defence counsel Alfred Pognon of Benin while the prosecution will be led by Sylvia Arbia. The trial will be heard in trial chamber I of the ICTR but the judges who will adjudicate Seromba's case are yet to be known. # • Press 'M' for murder [Fossmo] -- obscure sect iol; www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=24&art_id=qw1091198880589B265 , By Simon Johnson, July 30 2004 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN: A Swedish Lutheran pastor who faked cellphone text messages from God to get his nanny-lover to murder his wife and try to kill the husband of a second mistress, was sentenced to life in jail on Friday. The case has fascinated Sweden with its intoxicating mix of sex, death and the workings of an obscure religious sect. The court found Helge Fossmo, a Pentecostal minister in the town of Knutby, north of Stockholm, guilty of inciting Sara Svensson, his children's 27-year-old nanny, to kill his second wife and his next-door-neighbour, Daniel Linde. He was having an affair with the nanny and Linde's wife. The nanny admitted to the January murder of Alexandra Fossmo and to shooting Linde, who survived the attack. The same court has ordered her to be sent to a psychiatric institution. "Helge Fossmo ruthlessly made use of Sara Svensson's love for him and her dependency on him as a religious leader," read the verdict of the court in the town of Uppsala. The trial painted a picture of a bizarre religious community, far removed from the liberal and secular society most Swedes would recognise. Life in the sect, an off-shoot of the Lutheran Church of Sweden, was controlled by a woman known as "Christ's Bride" after she got engaged to Jesus in a ceremony. The community's ministers also exercised a controlling influence in the lives of their flock. In Fossmo's case that included using the latest technology to get his nanny to commit murder. Svensson testified she received anonymous text messages, which she believed to be from God, urging her to kill. A technology company traced erased messages on her phone to Fossmo, who admitted sending them but said they were intended only to guide the nanny in her faith. Svensson also said the pastor told her that killing his wife and neighbour was the only way she could please God. The confessions of the nanny led the police to reopen the investigation into the death of Fossmo's first wife. She died in 1999 after apparently falling over in the bath, hitting her head on the tap, according to Fossmo. At the time, her death was treated was an accident. The court on Friday cleared him of any responsibility for her death. # • Priest's murder plot sickens [2004 Fossmo] News 24, www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1565933,00.html , 22:45, 30/July/2004 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN: A Swedish court on Friday sentenced a Pentecostal pastor to life for his role in a murder case that grabbed headlines in both Sweden and Norway. Norwegian-born pastor Helge Fossmo was found guilty by Uppsala district court of planning the murder of his second wife, Alexandra, on January 10. The court also ruled that he masterminded the shooting of a neighbour whose wife he had an affair with at the time. The crimes were carried out by 33-year-old Fossmo's former nanny, Sara Svensson. Svensson, 27, was sentenced to psychiatric care in a secure unit. Prosecutor Elin Blank said Fossmo had urged the nanny to kill his wife "on behalf of God" since divorce was unthinkable for a Pentecostal pastor. The court said Fossmo had "ruthlessly used Sara Svensson's love for him and her dependence on him as a spiritual leader." In addition to shooting 23-year-old Alexandra Fossmo, Svensson also confessed to attacking Alexandra with a hammer last November, as well as the shooting of a 30-year-old neighbour of Fossmo's that January night. • Priest gets life for 'SMS murder' [2004 Fossmo] BBC News, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3941453.stm , Friday, 30 July, 2004, SWEDEN: A Swedish priest has been jailed for life for persuading his lover, the family nanny, to murder his wife. A court in Uppsala found Helge Fossmo, 32, guilty of inciting Sara Svensson to shoot his wife by sending mobile phone text messages he said came from God. Miss Svensson, 27, the family's former nanny, was judged mentally ill and placed under psychiatric care. The court acquitted Mr Fossmo of having anything to do with a death of his first wife in 1999 in a bathtub. 'No alternative' At the end of a bizarre case that has fascinated Sweden, Lutheran pastor Helgo Fossmo was found guilty of the incitement to kill his second wife, 23-year-old Alexandra Fossmo. • Priest convinced nanny to murder with ‘texts from God’ [2004 Fossmo] Irish Examiner, www.examiner.ie/pport/web/world/Full_Story/did-sgbk8iTgyklb6sg7IQHSmeYhNE.asp , By Mattias Karen, Stockholm, 31/July/04 SWEDEN: A Swedish priest was jailed for life yesterday for manipulating his former nanny into murdering his wife, using mobile phone text messages he said were from God to convince her to commit the crime. The Uppsala District Court ruled that Helge Fossmo, 32, a Pentecostal church pastor, convinced Sara Svensson, 27, to shoot his wife as she was sleeping in their house in Knutby, near Stockholm. She also shot Fossmos’ neighbour, Daniel Linde, who survived the attack. Svensson, who was deemed mentally ill by a panel of judges, was sentenced to psychiatric care. She admitted the shootings, but maintained that Fossmo convinced her to do it, in part by sending her text messages he claimed were from God. • Chief incumbent succumbs to acid burns: Police after fugitive Thera [2004] -- Buddhist Sunday Observer, http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2004/08/01/new22.html , by Jayampathy Jayasinghe, for August 1, 2004 SRI LANKA: The recent slaying of the chief incumbent Thera of Aldeniya Abinawarama temple at Kadawata by a fellow Buddhist priest of the same temple has sent ripples of shock among the Buddhist community. Although we hear of Buddhist priests being killed by robbers these days, it was a shock to many that a chief priest had been killed by another priest of the same temple. The incident happened last Monday around noon. The high priest, Aldeniye Saranajothi (63) was resting on his sofa in the verandah of his temple when the suspect had stealthily crept into the verandah with a jar of acid. He went closer to the chief priest and threw it on his body critically injuring him. After committing the act he ran out of the temple. The chief priest groaning in pain had come out of the building covering his face with both hands due to acid burns. With difficulty he scrambled across the garden to the temple bell and started ringing it incessantly several times to draw the attention of villagers. Several persons who heard the toll of the bell rushed to the temple to find out what it was all about. The priest who was in excruciating pain had pleaded with the crowd for a trishaw taxi to get to the hospital. Shortly after, the high priest was rushed to the hospital. On the way to hospital, the driver stopped his vehicle for a while as he could not endure the strong smell of acid. He saw the priest groaning in pain covering his face with both hands while acid fumes were oozing on his face. However, the priest succumbed to injuries at the Ragama hospital. [...] The suspect priest was a graduate teacher around 38 years old employed at a government school in Kadawata area. The motive for throwing acid on the high priest was due to constant quarrels he has had with him in the past. The suspect priest monk had aspirations to be the incumbent of the Abinawaramaya temple. However the Sangakaraka Sabawa had nominated Aldeniye Saranojothi to succeed him bypassing the suspect priest. |
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