On 10th December in Marrakesh, Britain and the Holy See as well as many of the world’s nations, signed the UN’s Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. The Compact comes in two parts: a Global Compact on Refugees (GCR) and a Global Compact for Migration (GCM). With little publicity, this voluntary and non-binding agreement has been created over the past 18 months as a global commitment to save lives, protect rights and to share responsibility for the 258 million people currently living outside of their own nations.
Most of the world’s countries have signed this compact, although so far 13 countries, headed by the USA, have refused to do so and Australia has only signed the Compact on Refugees. It will be interesting to see how many more will either decline to sign or later withdraw from the compact for it is designed to open the developed nations’ borders and even individual cities to asylum-seekers and to economic migrants from developing countries, and to give full human rights and welfare rights to both.
It has to be admitted that it is a generous, noble and Christian idea. However it does mean that countries such as those in the European Union might attract far more new immigrants than they can maintain, which will irrevocably alter their communities, culture and even religion. It may be that the UN and Christian leaders in fact intend this to lead to a one-world nation with one culture and even one religion and a population of all races so that eventually there will be no more wars and racial hatred. This, too, would be a noble idea.
Certainly, the leaders of two of the Christian Churches – the Roman Catholic Pope Francis and Archbishop of Canterbury, head of the Church of England – believe so and frequently quote ‘You shall love your neighbour as yourself’ from the Gospel of Saint Matthew in the Bible’s New Testament and from the Gospel of Saint Luke, the parable of the Good Samaritan. This is the very apt tale of a traveller who is robbed and left for dead but rescued by a foreigner while his own people ignore his plight.
Archbishop Justin Welby who leads the Church of England, feels that the European Union, the forerunner of possible a one-world nation, has been ‘the greatest dream realised for human beings since the fall of the Western Roman Empire’. In the past he has insisted that concerns over the impact of immigration must not stop Britain and other countries ‘doing what is right’ by providing a home for migrants fleeing across the Mediterranean. And in fact he has said that not only Britain but all European nations must ‘play their part in a massive continent-wide settlement programme’.
But it was Pope Francis who, in 2017, began the move towards the Global Compact on refugees and migration, setting out an action plan for governments to deal with what the Vatican sees as one of the biggest global challenges of the 21st century. Indeed, the Pope earlier stated that the world should “prioritise migrants’ dignity over national security”.
A one-world order was also suggested by an earlier, 20th Century Pope. In 1964, Paul VI (who was Pope from 1963 to 1978) addressed the United Nations which he congratulated on having the wisdom to open up to the newly independent states and continued:
Your Charter goes even further, and our message moves ahead with it. You are in existence and you are working in order to unite nations, to associate states. Let us use the formula: to bring them together with each other. You are an association, a bridge between peoples, a network of relations between states. We are tempted to say that in a way this characteristic of yours reflects in the temporal order what our Catholic Church intends to be in the spiritual order: one and universal. Nothing loftier can be imagined on the natural level, as far as the ideological structure of mankind is concerned. Your vocation is to bring not just some peoples but all peoples together as brothers. A difficult undertaking? Without a doubt. But this is the nature of your very noble undertaking. Who can fail to see the need and importance of thus gradually coming to the establishment of a world authority capable of taking effective action on the juridical and political planes?
At this time of the year, Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus the Christ and all clerics know every dot, comma and verse of the nativity as recorded in the New Testament of the Bible.
But have both our current Pope and Archbishop of Canterbury forgotten the Old Testament?
In Genesis Chapter 11 it is said that at one time the whole world had only one language and one people. Sadly, they became so proud of their achievements that they wanted to be remembered for ever and decided to build a city with a tower which would reach the heavens. What we now call The Tower of Babel. But God was angered by their pride, and decided to create many languages and scatter the people across the whole world to prevent this happening again.
So, it was God, not man, who created the separate nations, and apart from a promise to gather the elect together before the Day of Judgement, it seems that there is no mention in the Bible that all the people of the world should be drawn back into one nation.
Are the Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury becoming, themselves, too proud in deciding to recreate one nation from the many which their God decided upon? Is there no other way of preventing racial hatred and possibly another World War?
One world Nation. Like one world medecine. Churches and religions are powerful political tools.
Fleeing refugees and migrants should be a temporary problem.
Redevelopment of their warfare-free home countries should enable them to return and help them build up the t and achieve an active and rewarding way of life
It is sad indeed that the various Christian / Catholic leaders all seem to support the destruction of their countries along with the politicians. So they must be regarded as a faction of the enemy within and treated as such. However we must get our priorities right and I absolutely support Viv on this; our focus must be on a clean exit from the EU for, without that, dealing with those other factions will not be possible.
That said, we must not lose sight of the next battles in the war against globalism such as the destruction of the EU (necessary to prevent some future government taking us back in) and the other factions such as the UN which has openly declared its intent through Agendas 21 / 30 and this latest pact on migration.
This is a timely article.
Welby is, sadly, a fanatical and abusive “Remainer”. In the introduction to his book “Re-imagining Britain”, published this year (2018), he levies an all out attack on Brexit, on P.19 of the Introduction. …”Brexit risks becoming not merely Britain’s exit from the EU, but a catalyst of British introspection, xenophobia and self-pity if a self-regarding attitude leads to economic failure and international impotence….(and this, next, is the best bit..)…as well as being morally wrong in and of itself.” So there, Brexit is evil! What happened to “….judge not that ye be not judged”?
Actually, I believe the evil lies in the attempts, over the centuries to create ‘superstates’, the word just being a safe substitute for “empire”. Democracy soon gets abandoned as centralisation and oppression take over, e.g. the USSR, Communist China and the Third Reich.
The beauty of smaller separate nation states, is not that tyrannies do not develop. They can occur, but the odds are in favour of the majority remaining democratic and acting as a limiting factor. The original purpose of the UN was to honour the self-determinatioin of all the nations and to provide a forum for dialogue and co-operation.
The bottom line in all this is that there are, and always will be, two types of people in this world….those that respect others as equals and those who want to tell everyone else what to do.
The current Brexit battle is a perfect example of this, where Remainers want to cheat and manipulate the system to get what they want, believing their view is superior.
What drives human beings to behave in this arrogant and dishonest way is a huge topic, on which I would be very pleased to hear the opinions of readers of this blog.
It does seem that apparently well-meaning individuals, or certainly social manipulators, lose their way when they are given, or get authority.
This can be seen at different levels. The Tower of Babel, as mentioned earlier, is a good example. For those not prepared to take the scriptures as gospel, we only have to look at some of the tin gods in our Town Halls.
Power can be achieved in many ways, not just being a leader but also being able to manipulate a leader. Virtue signalling is a way people have found to tap into that power in a more communal way, and so on.
My point is that whatever some say to criticise Democracy one of the key foundation stones is that individuals and parties can be removed from office after a given term.
Leading on from this any restriction on the removal of such is a restriction on Democracy itself. Most certainly why FPTP is so controversial.
Again, it is the prime reason why the EU experiment will eventually fail and why so many people intuitively wanted out in the Referendum. Perhaps not until the EU cause a lot more misery.
What is worrying about all this is that power is addictive and those who have power do not want to relinquish it. A topical example is May hanging on after being such a failure. Hence the expectations of some that if we do not get back to sensible Democracy soon it will all end in tears and violence. That is my opinion Ian.
IMHO, or maybe not so humble. Archbishop Welby is a highly intelligent pratt. After a couple of thousand years he has decided that someone knows best…
This exercise is yet another attempt at gobalisation. Will no body learn. Do we actually believe 7 billion people are one big mass of customers who all want what they’re selling. Which is basically your actual gullibility.
That which is prophesied in the PROTOCOLS OF THE LEARNED ELDERS OF ZION is surely coming to pass.
This pact will impact Britain very hard in future years. Our human rights industry will waste no time in pushing our politicians to fund the legal aid, the welfare bill and enforce the propaganda. The contempt for democracy is breath-taking. Next thing they will be re-writing history to put a BME figure on the banknotes to remind us how indebted we are for whatever prosperity and level of civilisation we have left in this country.
Mark 10:9 “What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.”
Or, in the case of the proposed One World Government: What therefore God has put asunder, let no man join together!
Something happened recently which was not widely reported: a ceremony took place in Jerusalem of the Sanhedrin performing a ritual burning of a sacrificed animal. This is a precursor to the building of the Third Temple. Animal sacrifice has not been performed ceremonially in this way since the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 AD.
This also links in with the idea that Jerusalem would become the capital city of the world. This may all seem like conspiracy theory nonsense, but look into it for yourself and make up your own mind.
This return to animal sacrifice would be completely contrary to the teachings of Christianity. Presumably the Pope and the Archbishop have not thought that far ahead.
I must totally agree with the comment by Stephen Place.
Religion is primarily a method of controlling one’s peers by fear. No one has ever shown proof of any God and those who object to believing in this imaginary being are routinely dismissed or even threatened or killed by believers.
Religion is a personal thing and should NEVER be allowed to mix with politics. In other words, believe if you want but do not expect nor threaten those who choose not to believe.
Mr Walsh is quite correct. However, our country was based upon Christian beliefs and the ten commandments, which are a good template for anyone or any country. Our Christian heritage has strengthened and enriched our people and the wonderful churches,architecture,sculpture, paintings, and music which we are so fortunate to enjoy today have been inspired by the Christian religion .
However, when looking at the Islamic countries in the world it is quite noticeable that Islam prevents technical progress and pursues a theme of misogyny and slavery and, without oil, Islamic countries exist in poverty and backwardness.
This is not good for the people, especially women, of ;any country.
Archbishop Welby is either a fool or a knave. He lived and worked in the Middle East when he was in the oil business, so he must know quite well the defects of Islam. Inviting half of the word’s primitive Muslims to join us here in UK is not exactly a recipe for successful government.
The pity is that the MSM know full well that we have signed up to this ridiculous Compact but have chosen not to enlighten our population on it.
Adrianne, well said, a very thoughtful and intelligent reply.
No coincidence that the eu parliament building is a ringer for the half finished Tower of Babel in Durer’s painting. They’ve learnt from the Bible and this time they’re going to get it right!
Fabulous article clearly laying out what is to become, in my opinion the sheer disruption and breakdown of the current world order, I have just one issue, it is in my humble opinion a pure fantasy rather than a noble idea that we all live under one religion and culture. The nobility of the idea is lost in the human psyche of malice, greed, avarice and jealousy and religious fervor !
I need a drink !
Great article thank you for the clarity it offers