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Most Rev. Gaston RUWEZI, bishop of the dio- ceived, the revelations on the monetary and banking
cese of Sakania Kipushi of the Democratic Republic system, and that it is possible to do otherwise, that
of Congo: money is not consubstantial to our States. We can
I came here because I was do otherwise than the system that we now have and
curious and in revolt against we had a demonstration yesterday (by Mr. de Sie-
benthal) on the creation of local money, which really
the Americans and the Can- impassioned us.
adians. Why? Because it is
the big businesses that I see I also appreciated the keen knowledge of the So-
in my country, in my diocese, cial Doctrine of the Church that motivated my partici-
that exploit the minerals that pation from the beginning. We have, in the ecclesi-
we have and after they leave astical province that I come from, stirred up many
the population in the black- ideas on what we call today the “social Gospel” or
est misery. In coming here, I “social ecclesiology.” The new evangelization in Af-
discovered that the Canadians rica calls us, especially in the social fields. There are
and Americans have the same enemy as we do. plenty of problems to be addressed: environmental
We have singled out the problem here; it is the misery, questions of injustice, the lack of daily bread,
education of the people. Thank you for creating this etc., every day there is a problem in Africa and we
spirit of family between the laity, priests and bishops are left behind. Africa is a continent that is clinically
that forms the Church family that we all wish for. I dead, as we said; the diagnostics do not give us a
give myself and my collaborators the duty to propa- chance: we are killed by AIDS, indebtedness, mal-
aria, it is a dead country. In the production of the
gate the message of social credit, using the educa- goods of the world, in 2008, Africa contributed 0.001
tion of the people through the poor means that we
have If we do not do it, if I do not do it, I will also be percent in the world patrimony, despite the fact that
a financial assassin. I thank you. we have the riches that are underground that we do
not consider. But the banking system has classed us;
Most Rev. Joseph Befe Ateba, Bishop of the dio- it is the economic systems that evaluates us and give
cese of Kribi in Cameroon: us a label, even if all that the world today is made of
I was also strongly im- — metals and minerals that we use — come from us.
pressed by your explana- I also learned much about the mechanisms of
tion of the experiences of power in the world and what most pleased me, is
apostolate that we have the proposition of another possibility. It presents
listened to: what benevo- a new social order which would be free of the tu-
lence, people who go to telage of the great monetary and banking powers,
knock on doors and pray which have no other criterion of action other than
with the people, who speak that of their own interests. It is not man that pre-
of the faith with them; this occupies them, not at all. In this they differ funda-
reminded me of another mentally with the Social Doctrine of the Church.
witness: there was a famous
American lawyer (Samuel What struck me also is the proposition to hand
Pisar) who is the sole survivor of his family — he was over monetary and financial power to its legitimate
a Polish Jew, all of his parents were massacred — but beneficiaries: to society, the people, to humanity;
he decided to live. He called his book “The blood of this is what I learned about from what you call eco-
hope.” I think that I have received this blood of hope, nomic democracy, meaning the end of the monop-
oly of money by those who unjustly appropriate it.
here.
I was struck also by the open and courageous Throughout the presentations, I never stopped
denunciation of Freemasonry and the Illuminati. I wondering how it would be possible to bring this
just looked up on Google (the internet) all that con- teaching to Africa. For me the concern lies in the
cerns the llluminati and it gave me cold chills. As you awareness of the people: how to get this information
say, it is really a Satanic world that has the final goal to the little people who are the immediate victims of
this whole system.
of eliminating the Church and installing a New World
Order. Faced with these systems, these powers, even
In regards to the seminar itself, I appreciated the most elaborate thought is not sufficient to attack
many things. What I have learned here, with much the system because it is so seriously implemented. It
enjoyment, is the origin of money and the motiva- has all the means — military and financial resources,
tions behind it, because the monetary and banking systemic, political and diplomatic assets... When
you look at this, you say: “What can the small Social
system could seem to the world as a natural thing. I Credit can do in the face of all of this?”
appreciated the complimentary information that I re-

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