The World of Council of Churches and the Vatican have teamed up to create a code of conduct for Christians who seek to win converts from other religions and faiths. About 30 Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant theologians will attend a meeting in Toulouse, France -- today through Friday -- to draft a "rule-book." Read the WCC's press release here.

The WCC said proselytizing is a "cause of friction and conflict between religions and among different branches of individual faiths."

The reason for the Vatican's participation in the meeting becomes clear in this Washington Post article, which reports that evangelicals and Pentecostals -- "two strongly proselytizing sects" -- have won many converts from Catholicism in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

So, the Roman Catholic Church is losing people to Protestantism. And it's found a way to stop this -- by getting evangelicals and Pentecostals to agree to a set of rules that, no doubt, will include a rule against sharing the gospel.

This is the second meeting in the three-year study project -- and the first one attended by evangelical and Pentecostal representatives. The first meeting -- held in May 2006 -- concluded that the "obsession of converting others" needs to be cured. Read the full report here.

The rule-book is scheduled to be completed by 2010. And if you've been following the news reported on FP, then you know that's just in time for the war against the saints to be launched -- if we're, indeed, in Daniel's 70th week. Coincidence?

Staying tuned!