In a sermon he gave on March 14, 2004 at the United Kingdom-based Kingsgate Community Church, Thomas Muthee declared that "places like Brazil, they are Catholic strongholds. But, people are getting saved anyway !"
Muthee has played an inspirational role in an emergent movement, within Protestant Christianity, that has declared war, both on the Catholic Church and also on all other competing religious and philosophical systems, on a global scale. For an indication of the scope of this movement, which has "transformation" projects ongoing in Brazil, Indonesia, the Philippines, China, Argentina, Guatemala and numerous states in the U.S., please see the Transforming Brazil sub-section at the end of this post.
Sarah Palin appears to believe in the religious-warfare ethic of the New Apostolic Reformation enough to appoint a religious warfare advocate, whose advisory board Palin is currently listed as serving on, to an Alaska state suicide-prevention council.
In early September 2008 I released, with the research support of the New Apostolic Reformation Research Group, a video documentary noting Sarah Palin's links to an internationally famous foe of wirtchcraft, Thomas Muthee.
Bishop Thomas Muthee claims to be able to cure crime and addiction, on a mass level, by expelling witches and "spirits of witchcraft" from cities, towns and geographic areas and Muthee built his international fame on his claim to have hounded a "witch" from a Nairobi, Kenya suburb. But, Muthee is not Sarah Palin's only witchcraft-related religious association. In fact, Mary Glazier serves, along with Bishop Thomas Muthee, as head of one of Peter Wagner's "spiritual warfare" networks.
Glazier is Alaska spiritual warfare director, Muthee controls spiritual warfare in East Africa. Like Muthee, Mary Glazier claims to have hounded a witch out of town, so to speak. And, Glazier has even stated that Sarah Palin is in Glazier's "spiritual warfare" network, thus raising the possibility that Sarah Palin herself participated in saving Alaska from the witchcraft peril.
Killing Mother Teresa
In 1997, Bishop Thomas Muthee's colleague at the World Prayer Center, a Mexican former Voodoo priestess turned Christian fundamentalist prophetess named Ana Mendez, launched an ambitious expedition to Mount Everest to attack "The Queen of Heaven" which members of Mendez' and Muthee's movement believed was responsible for luring hundreds of millions worldwide into "false" religions such as Catholicism.
At the time, Thomas Muthee, who has recently taken on the title of "Bishop", was one of thirteen board members of the World Prayer Center International. His colleague Ana Mendez was the World Prayer Center's "Special Task Coordinator", and one of Mendez' "special tasks" in 1997 was a "spiritual warfare" assault on the Catholic Church which, as Mendez later wrote, may have played a part in the death of Mother Theresa.
As Ana Mendez described the startling, global impact of her "Operation Ice Castle",
we have seen millions come to faith in Asia. Pastor Lok Main Bandhari, who had welcomed us to Nepal, then had a church of 70 people. Two years later, his movement had grown to 1,000 churches. Within two weeks of the expedition, other things happened which I believe are also connected: the huge fire in Indonesia, the largest Muslim nation; an earthquake destroyed the basilica of Assisi, where the Pope had called a meeting of all world religions; a hurricane destroyed the infamous temple 'Baal-Christ' in Acapulco, Mexico; Princess Diana died, a representative of the British throne, to which Sir Edmund Hillary dedicated Mount Everest; and Mother Theresa died in India, one of the most famous advocates of Mary as Co-Redeemer."
Ana Mendez, Special Task Coordinator, World Prayer Center
Ana Mendez (Ferrell) Current Ministry (Must see intro and site video.)
for more on "killing Mother Theresa" please see: Killing Mother Theresa with their Prayers: The New Apostolics' Spiritual Warfare against Catholics and the Amish (or Rick Santorum's Close Call)
In early September, as scrutiny of John McCain's new GOP vice presidential pick Sarah Palin mounted, the Wasilla Assembly of God church in Wasilla, Alaska scrubbed roughly two and a half year's worth of audio and video footage, taken of sermons and events held at the church from 2004 through to late 2006, from its web site.
I was able to save audio files of two sermons, given by Wasilla Assembly of God head pastor Ed Kalnins in 2004 or earlier, from the church web site. I was not the only one to realize, following John McCain's Palin pick, that the Wasilla Assembly of God church archives might vanish, and a few weeks after the church's web site was scrubbed, a striking 10-minute video segment, taken at the Wasilla Assembly of God on October 16, 2008, surfaced.
The video showed an elaborate religious ceremony in which Sarah Palin was, as a political leader, anointed and blessed, with elaborate laying on of hands and exhortations to God to protect her from "witchcraft", by three male pastors. Leading the ceremony and urging Christians to "infiltrate" and take control of key sectors of society such as business and finance, politics and government, education and schools, and media was a Kenyan religious leader, Thomas Muthee.
[below: 10 minute shows a little publicized side of Sarah Palin's key church, the Wasilla Assembly of God]
Transforming Brazil
Consider the following document, a PDF file from the upcoming "Transform Brazil" November 2008 conference.
The "Transformation" movement in Brazil has been holding yearly conferences, with in some cases up to 50,000 participants. This November 2008, at the invitation-only event in Sao Paulo, Brazil, over two thousand leaders in the "Brazil Transformation Project" will gather and discuss the movement’s goal of a comprehensive transformation of every sector of Brazilian society, a "mission of transformation to introduce the value system of the Kingdom of God.". The mission statement seems to imply that Christian values are not currently in place in historically Catholic-dominated Brazil.
A December 2007 pre-conference newsletter described the conference as concerning "reconciliation and healing" and summarized the origin of the project:
"In the late 90’s a new paradigm started in Brazil; the neo-Pentecostal movement came to bring a new taste of theology. This movement gave birth to many other movements like missionary movement; Cells movement - the G12, Worship Movement, City Transformation movement, Apostolic and Prophetic movement, and etc.
The result of those movements we can characterize by many spiritual blessings but also by many divisions and conflicts within the church.
Since the birth of ‘Transform World Brazil’ (Transforma Mundo Brasil) many evangelical leaders are coming together for reconciliation and healing. A new paradigm has started in Brazil and Latina America to bring transformation to our church and society. Recently according to a recognized nationwide magazine Brazil became as the biggest evangelic nation in the World."
While the official conference description is more circumspect, the December 2007 pre-conference Transform-World newsletter presented, unabashed, an underlying extreme religious bigotry by attributing crime, immorality, corruption and poverty to Brazilian Catholic "idolatry", black magic and animism:
"Brazil is known for its carnival and samba and as the biggest Catholic nation in the world. But what is not known is its heritage of Black Magic (brought by the Africans), idolatry (by the main church) and animism (by the Brazilian Native people). That is the base for corruption, sexual immorality, violence and poverty that we face today."
Per Transform-Brazil's decription, the movement is linked to the New Apostolic Reformation, to which Thomas Muthee has played a key, inspirational role.
As Luis Lugo, director of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, told New York Times religion reporter Laurie Goodstein, as printed in an October 6, 2006 New York Times story, "Pentecostal and Charismatic Groups Growing", "Pentecostal beliefs and practices are literally reshaping the face of Christianity throughout the developing world." Lugo’s Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life had just released the results of 2006 global survey on the growth of Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity worldwide.
One index of the astonishing trend: in Latin America, the Pentecostal and charismatic Christian percentage of the overall population was 4.4% in 1970. As of 2006, that figure had grown to 28.1%. The Pew Forum survey confirmed the spread of Pentecostalism, from its origins in a 1906 revival to its growth into a worldwide religion with roughly 500 million members.
Among countries in the survey most impacted by that trend was Brazil; according to the Pew survey, almost 50% of Brazilians were "renewalist" Christians, who practiced charsimatic forms of Christianity. Per the Pew Center’s definition, renewalists can be either Catholic or Protestant. But from 1960 to 1980, the number of Protestants in Brazil increased 2.6% and in the next two decades that increase tripled. The decline in the Catholic population in Brazil was nearly a mirror to the rise in the Protestant population, with a 4.1% decline from 1960 to 1980 and a tripling of that rate of decline in the subsequent two decades.
As a May 3rd, 2007 Boston Globe story entitled "Rising Protestant Tide Sweeps Brazil" described, "When the late Pope John Paul II visited Brazil in 1980, 89 percent of Brazilians identified themselves as Catholic. By 2000, when the last census was taken, the share of Catholics in the population had fallen to 74 percent... The number of evangelical Protestants nearly tripled in the same period to 26 million, or about 15 percent of the population."
As reported in a May 10, 2007 National Catholic Reporter story which downplayed the Protestant surge, Father Jose Oscar Beozzo, head of the Center for Evangelizing Services and Popular Education in São Paulo, estimated Brazil’s Protestant population, which Beozzo noted was mostly Pentecostal, to be 17 percent. A September 17, 2008 Der Spiegel report on the spread of Pentecostalism among Brazilian soccer players suggests the trend has accelerated again since the Pew Center survey, putting the rate of Protestant increase in Brazil a an astonishing 2% a year:
"An estimated 35 million Brazilians -- almost one in five -- are Evangélicos. Their numbers are growing by two million a year, and 70 percent of them are, like Bordon, members of Pentecostal Charismatic congregations.
Forty years ago, Brazil was still a 90-percent Catholic country."
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Sarah Palin’s Churches
Series of Documentary Videos and Supporting Articles.
The following are links to articles and videos that have been posted on Talk2action.org in an ongoing series, documenting the research on Sarah Palin's Churches and the Third Wave. They are listed in chronological order with the latest articles first. Below the links is a brief overview of the New Apostolic Reformation.
Sarah Palins Churches
Series of Documentary Videos and Supporting Articles
The following are links to articles and videos that have been posted on Talk2action.org in an ongoing series, documenting the research on Sarah Palin's Churches and the Third Wave. They are listed in chronological order with the latest articles first. Below the links is a brief overview of the New Apostolic Reformation.
Killing Mother Theresa with their Prayers
http://www.talk2action.org/...
Palin and the Apostles
http://www.talk2action.org/...
Fishers and Hunters - The Continuing Saga of Christian Zionism
http://www.talk2action.org/...
A Heartbeat Away or Why Palins Churches Matter
http://www.talk2action.org/...
Buzzflash Interview with the Palin Churches Research Team
http://www.talk2action.org/...
In Video, Pastor Annoints Palin, Urges Infiltration of Schools, Government, Business
http://www.talk2action.org/...
The Lions in the Pews
http://www.talk2action.org/...
Palin, Muthee, and the Witch- Journalists Miss the Major Story
http://www.talk2action.org/...
YouTube Censors Viral Video Documentary on Palin's Churches
http://www.talk2action.org/...
Palins Churches and the Holy Laughter Anointing,
Video, Documentation, and Article
http://www.talk2action.org/...
Sarah Palins Demon Haunted Churches, Complete Edition
With videos, documentation , and article
http://www.talk2action.org/...
Sarah Palins Churches and the Third Wave, Part Two
http://www.talk2action.org/...
Sarah Palins Churches and the Third Wave, Part One
http://www.talk2action.org/...
Direct video links:
Sarah Palins Churches and the Third Wave, also titled
Palins Demon Haunted Churches
http://www.vimeo.com/...
Palin's Churches and the Holy Laughter Anointing
http://www.youtube.com
Palin, Muthee and Killing Mother Theresa
http://www.youtube.com/...
Palin Anointer Thomas Muthee Fights Catholics, Witches and Python Spirits.
http://www.youtube.com/...
The New Apostolic Reformation/Third Wave
The New Apostolic Reformation is a recently institutionalized Protestant sect that emerged from specific Pentecostal and Charismatic movements, sometimes referred to collectively as the Third Wave. These are revivals of a 1940s and 1950s movement named as a heresy by the Assemblies of God at that time. The New Apostolic Reformation can now be defined as a distinct movement with a unique theology. The central figure in the movement, C. Peter Wagner has organized the sect structure and defined its primary theology. He declared 2001 as the beginning of the new Apostolic Age. Wagner’s extensive Apostolic network includes 500 Apostles from the U.S. and 42 other countries, each with their own network of churches and ministries, some with hundreds or even thousands. This network is interconnected with other Apostolic networks around the world who share media, conferences, schools, and training, and revivals.
The major tenets of the adherents of this sect include the belief that we are living in the final years before the return of Christ. However, they differ from other Fundamentalist Protestants in their belief that they must defeat evil on the earth and purify the existing churches before Jesus can return. Furthermore, the building of this "Kingdom of God" is not to be delayed until after the Rapture, or to be built in a heavenly sphere. They believe that they have a mandate to build the Kingdom in the present and in the physical realm. In preparation for this task, this final generation is being "imparted" with special supernatural gifts of the Holy Spirit that will allow them to wage spiritual warfare and take control of the earth from the devil and an array of demons. The mandate for building the Kingdom includes their current Seven Mountains strategy for the taking control over government, arts and entertainment, media, education, family, religion, and business.
This effort includes extensive mission work around the globe featuring their well developed spiritual warfare strategies which have been published in books and videos. The goal of these spiritual warfare tactics is to take cities and communities from the territorial demons that control theses geographic areas and that they believe prevent their efforts in planting their own Apostolic churches. Spiritual warfare around the globe includes the goal of taking control of cities through the expulsion of witches and demons, and the conversion of Roman Catholics, Jews, Muslims, and all other religions. They also believe that there must be a civil war in the Protestant church during this "Third Reformation" in order for them to purify that institution before Jesus can return. The movement has an extensive focus on youth, with several leaders specifically prophesying that those born after 1973 are to be the trainers and warriors for God’s army.