The WCC Assembly is the “highest governing body of the World Council of Churches (WCC), and normally meets every eight years.” More than “4,000 participants, from all over the world,” attended the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches. [1] Protestants and Catholics came together for prayer, worship, and to express solidarity in what is considered to be “the most diverse Christian gathering of its size in the world.” World religious leaders gathered in Karlsruhe, Germany, from August 31, 2022, to September 8, 2022, to express their “desire for a new era of Christian unity” in the 21st Century. [2]
On August 29, 2022, Catholic Media Center, the voice of the Roman Catholic Church in Switzerland, reported that Ganoune Diop was both a participant and a member of the planning committee for the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches’ international gathering. The Catholic Media Center reported:
“The 11th General Assembly of the World Council of Churches (WCC) from August 31 to September 8, 2022, will take place in Karlsruhe under the motto: “The love of Christ moves, reconciles and unites the world” … Dr. Ganoune Diop, director of the Department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty of the Adventist World Church Government, General Conference, will be present throughout the assembly in Karlsruhe at the invitation of the WCC. In the “Ecumenical Conversations” part of the programme, he is to give three presentations. Diop was also invited to serve on the committee that plans future inter-church talks.” [3]
So what were the “Ecumenical Conversations” for the World Council of Churches’ 11th Assembly? These were a series of 23 meetings [4] that covered the following topics, according to the WCC’s official program:
EC 1: Mission Reimagined
EC 2: Dreaming a New Future
EC 3: Walking Together Hand in Hand
EC 4: The Gift of Being: A Church of All and For All
EC 5: Creation and Common Prayer
EC 6: Broadening the Dialogue on the Church
EC 7: Creation Justice Now! Climate Action and Water for Life
EC 8: Who lives, who dies, who cares?
EC 9: Economy of Life in a time of inequality, climate change and the 4th industrial revolution
EC 10: WCC and ACT Alliance: Ecumenical Diakonia – building bridges: local action by churches together
EC 11: Conversations on the Pilgrim Way: invitation to journey together on matters of human sexuality
EC 12: Trends and emerging issues in a rapidly changing world
EC 13: Towards a Just Peace in the Middle East
EC 14: Ecumenical Call to Just Peace
EC 15: Freedom of Religion and Belief
EC 16: Together Towards Racial Justice
EC 17: Exile, Exodus and Hospitality
EC 18: Interreligious Solidarity as Interreligious Engagement
EC 19: Theological education – Why its ecumenicity is essential
EC 20: Minding the Gaps: Safeguarding Gender Justice in Unity and Reconciliation
EC 21: Christian Ethics and Human Rights
EC 22: Churches and moral discernment. Facilitating dialogue to build koinonia
EC 23: Inspired by the Pilgrimage of Justice and Peace [4]
In addition to taking part in the interfaith discussions, Ganoune Diop is a member of the World Council of Churches’ 11th Assembly’s Programme Guidelines Committee. What is Ganoune Diop’s job and function on this committee? Take note of what his work is, according to the Programme Guidelines Committee’s official report:
“The mandate of the Programme Guidelines Committee (PGC) is to propose programme guidelines for all further programmatic work of the World Council of Churches (WCC) in the areas of unity and mission, public witness and diakonia, and education and ecumenical formation including the six transversals: Relations with member churches, National Council of Churches and Regional Ecumenical Offices; Youth Engagement in the Ecumenical Movement; Just Community of Women and Men; Interreligious Dialogue and Cooperation; Spiritual Life; and Overcoming Racism, Racial Injustice and Xenophobia. The PGC is therefore charged with proposing relationship strategies in the areas of church and ecumenical development, with reviewing the programmatic work of the WCC, and with providing an integrated approach to the future direction and priorities in the three areas and strengthening relations with and between member churches, and more generally in the ecumenical movement.” [5]
Basically, Ganoune Diop is so knowledgeable about ecumenism that he is in charge of creating the agenda for the General Assembly meetings of the World Council of Churches. Ganoune Diop is essentially acting as a double agent in the Seventh-day Adventist Church because he is organizing the WCC’s worldwide ecumenical work while also working for the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and lecturing Adventists on how we need to “mingle” and unite with Roman Catholics and Protestants.
However, Ganoune Diop wouldn’t be organizing the worldwide ecumenical movement if he didn’t have enablers who were supporting him. President Ted Wilson and other General Conference executives and vice presidents make this possible by supporting Ganoune Diop in his work for the global ecumenical movement. What are some of the negative and destructive activities that the World Council of Churches’ 11th Assembly supported? We will now discuss four significant conflicts of interest that we observed at this event that our church leaders, for whatever reason, refuse to acknowledge. Any sincere and faithful Seventh-day Adventist should avoid taking part or serving on their organizing committee due to these major conflicts.
1. Promoting Pope Francis’ Message
Pope Francis delivered a message to the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches. This was read to all the representatives gathered. In fact, this had to be approved by Ganoune Diop’s “Programme Guidelines Committee” in order to be included on the schedule for this global conference. And what was the Pope’s message? Roman Catholic Cardinal Kock, Prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, delivered the greetings and read the message from Pope Francis to the WCC 11th Assembly. Notice what the message said:
“I would like to cordially greet the representatives of the Christian communions gathered in Karlsruhe, on the occasion of the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches. I assure you of my pastoral interest in the work of the Assembly. I wish you a meaningful and fruitful meeting that deepens and strengthens the bonds of communion between the Churches and the ecumenical organizations present.” [6]
“Our mission as Christians is to bring the fulfillment of this reconciliation to the world, with the Church being the instrument and visible sign of the unity to which God calls all people.” [6]
“But how can we credibly proclaim the Gospel of reconciliation without also being committed, as Christians, to promoting reconciliation among ourselves? I ask God that this Assembly strengthen everyone’s commitment towards a more intense cooperation in the search of a fuller and more visible communion.” [6]
Pope Francis was on display at the WCC’s 2022 event in Karlsruhe, Germany.
2. Promoting Ecumenical Sunday Eucharistic Mass
Priests from the Episcopal and Catholic churches presided over this ecumenical Eucharistic Mass on Sunday morning for the WCC’s 11th Assembly. According to the Facebook post below, this was a joint mass officiated by Catholic and Protestant clergy.
The World Council of Churches has more than 100 pictures from the various masses they held on Sunday morning in different locations. These images are listed as “Sunday Worship – Karlsruhe 2022.” [7]
On page 220 of the official program schedule for the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches is the listing to the Sunday morning worship service (pictured above) [8]. In fact, the following is stated on Page 21 of the official program schedule:
Page 21: “The assembly will have many opportunities to share in the life and witness of its host churches. This will be highlighted in the ecumenical encounter programme and during the weekend pilgrimage programme, including on Sunday, when participants will join local congregations for worship and fellowship.”
3. Drafting a Unity Statement that calls for “One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church”
A copy of the Unity Statement’s Preamble.
The 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches “adopted” a “Unity Statement” as well. As stated in the Preamble, this statement applies to “We – the fellowship of the WCC,” not just to members. All participants, including delegates, advisors, observers, guests, and, of course, the “Programme Guidelines Committee,” are considered participants in the fellowship. Everyone who has “fellowship” with the World Council of Churches is directly effected by this.
Section #9: “The 1948 founding assembly in Amsterdam and the second assembly in Evanston in 1954 affirmed our oneness in allegiance to Christ, addressed the sin of persistent church divisions, and expressed hope that the churches might “stay together” in their imperfect fellowship.” [9]
Section #10: “Seven years later, in 1968, the Uppsala assembly approached the vision of unity from the perspective of catholicity as the quality by which the Church expresses the fullness, integrity, and totality of life in Christ. Catholicity is, therefore, “the opposite of all kinds of egoism and particularism.” [9]
Section #11: “From the assembly in Vancouver in 1983 came a reminder that visible unity has three marks: unity in apostolic faith, unity in the mutual recognition of Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, and unity in common decision-making and teaching with authority.” [9]
Section #12: “According to the 1991 assembly in Canberra, the unity of the Church understood as koinonia will be realized “when all churches are able to recognize in one another the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church.” [9]
Section #13: “All who have been baptized into Christ “are united with Christ in his body,” stated the text on ecclesiology “Called to be the One Church” adopted by the 2006 Porto Alegre assembly.” [9]
Section #14: “In this 2022 Assembly of the World Council of Churches, we now turn to celebrate and affirm the ways in which the quest for a true unity is always founded in love … The true goal of Jesus Christ, and with him all Christians, is to reach a visible fellowship, one in holy unity … There is a deep commitment to the goal of visible unity, a renewed focus on ecumenical spirituality and on ecclesiology that begins with baptism. There is a real, increasing convergence about the need to hold together the local and the universal in thinking about the Church, along with an evangelical passion for proclaiming the gospel together and sharing in the mission of God to the world.” [9]
Section #19: “It is when we are kind to one another as churches, warmly welcoming of each other, building profound and evident friendship in sincerity and respect, when we are drawn to one another out of compassion, fascination, and longing for one another – across our differences and divisions – that we will find the grace to search for that common faith, the truth together held that will overcome our separation. Unity in apostolic faith, in sacramental life, in ministry, and in the work of sharing in common action together, all need our heads, hands, and feet, the whole of us, to be fully engaged.” [9]
Section #26: “We affirm the vision of the WCC for the visible unity of all Christians, and we invite other Christians to share this vision with us. We also invite all people of faith and goodwill to trust, with us, that a different world, a world respectful of the living earth, a world in which everyone has daily bread and life in abundance, a decolonized world, a more loving, harmonious, just, and peaceful world, is possible.” [9]
4. A Call for Ecocide Laws and a Climate Crimes Tribunal
No ecumenical gathering would be complete without the presence of plants [10] and indigenous religions, [11] and this event was no exception. The 11th Assembly published a document called “The Living Planet: Seeking a Just and Sustainable Global Community.” The statement calls for “divestment from fossil fuels” and the “radical mobilization and redirection of resources towards the health and resilience of our communities and the protection and renewal of ecosystems that form the base of all our economies and societies.” The document also urges all churches to “give the climate emergency the priority attention that a crisis of such unprecedented and all-encompassing dimensions deserves.” [12]
And finally, the document urges all governments and administrative bodies to set up “ecocide laws,” a climate crimes court, and some kind of Climate Change International Court of Justice. The statement reads:
“All governments and authorities must respect, protect and fulfill the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment, as described in the Escazú Agreement. The consideration of such proposals as the creation of a new UN Economic, Social and Ecological Security Council, a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty, the rights of nature, ecocide laws, a Climate Crimes Tribunal and an Advisory Opinion on Human Rights and Climate Change from the International Court of Justice, are new and strengthened forms of accountability which need support.” [12].
The new ecocide laws, the rights of nature, and a climate crimes tribunal will be established to address the new crimes against the ecology. Ecocide would criminalize what Pope Francis has called the new sins and transgressions against Mother Earth. At the forefront of this global effort to combat climate change, there is an effort to introduce a new moral law, a new ecological conversion, and comprehensive ecological penalties to help combat the so-called climate crisis. The core principles of Pope Francis’ encyclical on climate change are being embraced by all the churches.
The ‘Ecumenical Youth Gathering’, one of the assemblies to the World Council of Churches 11th Assembly.
Ganoune Diop is completely abandoning the Seventh-day Adventist faith by embracing the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches, by supporting their policies, and by joining their “Programme Guidelines Committee” group. Because every pastor and leader in the church has taken an oath to uphold the faith and protect the church, Ganoune Diop and those who support him must do the right thing and resign. You cannot pretend to work for the Seventh-day Adventist Church while actually working for the beast and his image who are planning to implement the mark.
Held in connection with the World Council of Churches 11th Assembly, a Taizé prayer brings all people together.
This is part of the reason why we see so much confusion in Adventism today. We have leaders who openly walk in the opposite direction of those who came before us. Both the Scriptures and the Spirit of Prophecy are clear about the nature of the ecumenical movement that seeks to unite Catholics, Protestants, and Spiritualism in order to exalt Sunday sacredness. However, it appears that some of our church leaders believe their knowledge exceeds that of divine revelation.
“Satan determines to unite them in one body, and thus strengthen his cause by sweeping all into the ranks of Spiritualism. Papists, who boast of miracles as a certain sign of the true church, will be readily deceived by this wonder-working power; and Protestants, having cast away the shield of truth, will also be deluded. Papists, Protestants, and worldlings will alike accept the form of godliness without the power, and they will see in this union a grand movement for the conversion of the world” (Great Controversy, p. 588).
Ganoune Diop is a member of Babylon’s “Programme Guidelines Committee” group and is helping to organize worldwide ecumenical events that are designed to spread Rome’s intoxicating wine. He is not teaching or defending the Seventh-day Adventist faith in these forums. As a result of these ecumenical worship services and interfaith collaborations, Protestants are now celebrating the Roman Catholic Eucharistic Mass. Why are these leaders unable to discern their course? Solidarity with Rome will lead us to accept and celebrate Catholic rituals and traditions.
These are the inescapable results of the ecumenical movement, which we are so eager to embrace. Church leaders frequently reassure us that working together across religious lines is okay. The same men urge us to imitate them and follow their example. But here is the problem that we are seeing today:
“And his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.” Revelation 13:3.
Ecumenism will bring healing and reconciliation between Rome and the rest of the religious world. It will lead you along a path that will bring all divisions to an end. That’s exactly what the Bible said would happen (Revelation 13:3). Everything is in place for the culmination of the final events. The more we see the churches coming together, the more power, authority and influence Rome obtains.
‘Affirming Justice and Human Dignity’, at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches.
We are seeing the final act of the drama unfolding before our eyes. Regrettably, Protestantism is drifting away from the truth it always defended. Various leaders and churches, including ours, are declaring their allegiance to Rome one by one. What about our loyalty to God? What about our commitment to God’s word, as well as to the Three Angels’ Messages? What about our mission to defend the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus in the world? We are certainly in a terrifying situation. Our people are being led down the path to desolation. Notice what inspiration says will happen if we continue down the road to perdition:
“In His Word the Lord declared what He would do for Israel if they would obey His voice. But the leaders of the people yielded to the temptations of Satan, and God could not give them the blessings He designed them to have, because they did not obey His voice but listened to the voice and policy of Lucifer. This experience will be repeated in the last years of the history of the people of God, who have been established by His grace and power. Men whom He has greatly honored will in the closing scenes of this earth’s history pattern after ancient Israel” (Manuscript Release, Vol. 13, p. 379).
“Some of our ministers have been led astray because they would not follow the light that the Lord gave them. Those who have thus departed from the faith may not realize it, but they are following the fallen angel. In the future, strange things will happen. I tell you this so that you may not be surprised at what takes place. We shall all need to maintain a close connection with the Lord. The end is much nearer than when we first believed.” (Manuscript Release, Vol. 19, p. 394).
“If the church pursues a course similar to that of the world, they will share the same fate. Nay, rather, as they have received greater light, their punishment will be greater than that of the impenitent” (Testimonies, Vol. 5, p. 100).
Sources
[1] https://www.oikoumene.org/about-the-wcc/organizational-structure/assembly
[4] https://www.oikoumene.org/about-the-wcc/organizational-structure/assembly#ecumenical-conversations
[8] https://www.oikoumene.org/sites/default/files/2022-08/ResourceBook_Eng_Web_Revised.pdf
[9] https://www.oikoumene.org/sites/default/files/2022-09/A05rev1-Unity-Statement.pdf
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Ganoune Dioup and his Ted Wilson are both ravening wolves in sheep’s clothing ?The later is the president of the G.C and Dioup is the Head of the religious liberty . They are serving the Man of sin yet many SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS are still sleeping,it’s only a matter of time when the mark of the beast is enforced by the law many adventists will realise when it’s too late that they were led astray by their leaders. The Rwanda genocide is a good case study for the Adventists ; the Jesuit turned pastor of local Rwanda conference of Mugonero Mr Elizaphan Ntarutikimana and his son Gerrard betrayed his fellow brothers and sisters in faith to be butchered by the Hutu militia on the sabbath morning and it is estimated 3000 Tutsi Adventists were murdered in the Mugonero school compound .Rome planned the mini inquisition in Rwanda with the help of the SDA leadership in Rwanda against the minority Tutsi Adventists. There is a mugonero ahead of us let’s put our relationship with God closer than ever before it’s too late. Seventh Day Adventists should wake up.
Thanks for the information. Jeremiah 6:15 Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time [that] I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.
6:16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where [is] the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [therein].
Simon Kimani I want to be your friend in FB, your account name please?
well said sister our leaders are fulfilling the prophesy about them…. they have join the man of sin and betray Christ soon the wrath of God will be pour on this earth because of their wickedness
I remember going to school in 1994 and this beautiful, graceful girl with large eyes, quiet nature, a deer-like stride and keen intelligence (she beat my test scores regularly) joined our class at an SDA school in southern Africa. Her name was June (I think) and she fascinated me. There was something about her, a deep sadness, a smile held up with the weight of heartache, and a mysterious otherness that I clearly remember so many years later. They stayed for a few months and just as suddenly as she arrived in my class, she was gone. My father later told me that they had gotten word that people back home had sent an assassin down to ‘take care’ of them. June and her family left that night. I have always wondered where she ended up and if she was happy and safe. I hope to see her in heaven again one day. I pray for her some nights. That was my first real introduction into the violence and evil of this world. I’ll never forget her.
I was reading up on this man and his son now. Thank you for mentioning them. I grew up in southern Africa and never heard about the SDA involvement. Did our church ever respond to their specific case?
It gives credence to Jesus’ solemn warning that parents will betray their children and children will betray their parents. And yet He died for us all. He paid the price for all that evil. No wonder the angels don’t understand. I don’t either.
So, what is the difference between the Ecumenical Charter, which the church claims to oppose, and this Unity Statement? Both of them say the same thing. It appears that a scheme is being exposed, and the “jig is up,” as they say.
At the Adventist GC meeting this year the election of officers was planned organized and forced through to maintain the presence of a majority jesuit group of leaders at the highest levels of authority in our church from the president down. I had no voice in re-electing the traitors wilson, diop and the other department heads in the world church who are attempting to take God’s true church down to hell with them. wilson dared not allow a true election to take place because he and his buddies would be out of a job today. diop sings the catholic hymns in the mass and takes their eucharist like a real roman catholic which he actually is. But this will not be. Jesus said that it will only SEEM as if the church has fallen. It will be the church members who will hold true to GOD’s word and stand in the gap to seal the breach for His namesake and for His glory. We now have mighty warrior preachers who our heavenly Father has raised up like Conrad Vine, Walter Veith, Doug Batchelor, Devaney Haupt and so many others too numerous to name. The time truly is at hand. May God have mercy on us all.
Allison, you are so right. Our Lord has many faithful watchmen that are loudly proclaiming the Three Angels Messages and these are the Ministers of God that I support and not the apostate General Conference.
The Lord has pronounced a curse upon those who take from or add to the Scriptures. The great I AM has decided what shall constitute the rule of faith and doctrine, and he has designed that the Bible shall be a household book. The church that holds to the word of God is irreconcilably separated from Rome. Protestants were once thus apart from this great church of apostasy, but they have approached more nearly to her, and are still in the path of reconciliation to the Church of Rome. Rome never changes. Her principles have not altered in the least. She has not lessened the breach between herself and Protestants; they have done all the advancing. But what does this argue for the Protestantism of this day? It is the rejection of Bible truth which makes men approach to infidelity. It is a backsliding church that lessens the distance between itself and the Papacy. – ST February 19, 1894
Brighten the corner where you are brethren. Use God’s Holy Bible and the SoP writings of Ellen G White to do it. Practice what you preach and your corner will be brightened. The earth is and will be lightened with God’s glory. Brighten your corner ye messengers. Brighten your corner ye messengers. Brighten your corner.
ON JUNE 11TH SABBATH,MY WIFE & SON & I ALL SAT W/ANDY & LISTENED TO THE SPEECH OF TED WILSON,IT SOUNDED GOOD,BUT THE PROOF IS IN THE ACTION…ALL THE THINGS HE SAID HE WOULD NOT TOLERATE ARE BEING PURSUED & MR.DIOP IS ENCOURAGED TO CONTINUE HIS ECUMENICAL GLOBE TROTTING UNABATED & UNCENSURED…
Yes my brother, that sermon we heard in St. Louis, certainly rings hollow right now.
Pastor Jeffrey’s used to say
Your actions speak so loud cannot hear what you are saying
Dr. Diop needs to go.
The Lord have mercy on His people. We are not making these decisions, these leaders are doing this.
That’s true, but if the people don’t do nothing nor protest against them and cast them out of their charges, but contrary to that they keep voting them, even if it’s in a group, then they participate to the leaders’ sin.
This is not only Diop nor Willson, the WHOLE administration in high positions is in apostasy. The SDA inc. is now part of Babilon, but God the real SDA church which is given the STRAIGHT TESTIMONY and the present truth.
“Like Uzzah, they are attempting to steady the ark which belongs to God, and is under His special supervision. Said my Guide to those in these councils, “Who of the men among you have felt the burden of the cause from the first, and have accepted responsibilities under trying circumstances? Who has carried the burden of the work during the years of its existence? Who has practiced self-denial and self-sacrifice? The Lord made a place for His stanch servants, whose voices have been heard in warning. He carried forward His work before any of you put your hands to it, and He can and will find a place for the truth you would suppress.” CW 96.2
There are actually two issues at play here, apostasy and silence. I could never have imagined that such a high leader would partake in such a blatant apostasy while the rest of the leadership remained silent.
Come out of her my people, that’s the call for sincere SDAs, we should involve ourselves with these leaders.
Matthew 15:14
[14]Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Even John the Baptist didn’t join the established church and the rabbanical schools of his day, but God sent to the wilderness.
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In the natural order of things, the son of Zacharias would have been educated for the priesthood. But the training of the rabbinical schools would have unfitted him for his work. God did not send him to the teachers of theology to learn how to interpret the Scriptures. He called him to the desert, that he might learn of nature and nature’s God. DA 101.3
Romans 16:17
[17]Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
“No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.” Matthew 6:24.