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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, MARCH 2, 1984
would find the answer, and I did. Under 1983, March 15th was the
first day of God's Sacred Year--the day the booklet arrived! I
could see that God was actually leading me and answering my
questions.
L.L. (Walworth, NY)
I have learned more from a couple of your booklets--THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS and THE UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN IN PROPHECY--than
I could have learned at the local Bible college. I have read and
studied both booklets twice. I learned that the Ten Commandments
are for me today. They are not some obsolete laws that were done
away with by Jesus Christ as some churches teach. I guess I
really knew this all along but I hadn't given them much thought
or study. I now feel like I know who I am and where I came from;
also where I'm going. I feel like I'm finally on my way and will
make it by the grace of God.
R.B. (Plant City, FL)
I'd just like to say how much I've learned from reading some of
the literature you have sent me. I am surprised at some of the
things that I'm learning and would like to thank Mr. Armstrong,
especially for the booklet WHAT DO YOU MEAN--THE UNPARDONABLE
SIN? For the past few months I've wondered if I'd blown it all in
one fell swoop of stupidity. Thank God I haven't!
ON THE WORLD SCENE
S.S. (Ontario, CA)
--Richard Rice, Mail Processing Center
NEW PAPAL APPEAL TO ORTHODOX; VATICAN AND ITALY SIGN NEW
CONCORDAT; AMERICA'S LOSS OF WILL; DESENSITIZING MUSIC
The world is careening from crisis to crisis. With most of the ill-fated
Western multi-national forces now out of Lebanon, action there is tapering
off for now while Syria's President Assad, the big winner, pauses to see
what he will do next. The world's attention is therefore riveted on the
deepening Gulf War between Iraq and Iran. Iraq apparently attempted--to no
avail--a high altitude bombing run on Iran's oil export facility on Kharg
Island. Meanwhile, as all this is occurring, Pope John Paul II is quietly
pursuing his dream of East-West reconciliation, based upon overtures to the
Orthodox churches. Here is a UPI dispatch from Bari, Italy dated February
26:
Pope John Paul II, making the first papal visit to the historic
port of Bari in nearly 850 years, Sunday urged the Roman Catholic
and Orthodox Churches to work together for peace between the
peoples of Europe. The pope issued the appeal during a 12-hour
trip to the southern Adriatic town, 280 miles southeast of Rome,
where he met with orthodox prelates and celebrated an ecumenical
mass before a stadium crowd of about 350,000 people....
Meeting with the orthodox prelates in the 11th century basilica
St. Nicholas, John Paul called on their churches to work with him
for peace among European peoples. "Can the two sister churches
that generated the spiritual dynamism of Europe7°condition1ng �
destiny, ever abandon it to itself in such a critical moment of
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