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The Sretensky Monastery's Schengen Zone won't be of much interest unless you speak Russian.Sadly, Sobornost is also a Russian-only Web site.Paul D. Steeves's News About Religion in Russia site has been keeping a close watch on this story. See his latest here and here. The Moscow Times has more on the controversy.Concern over bar codes as sign of the Antichrist isn't limited to Russia. On his Web site, Jay James warns, "The mark of the beast may not be a tattoo or implanted chip at all, but it may represent a symbolic rejection of one's faith to God. But, the technology of implanted chips, bar codes and scanners can easily be seen as a tool for one such person as a antichrist or a government individual who is drunk with power, could easily mark and monitor it's citizens buying habits and movements in todays world." Likewise, in PropheZine, John L. Terry bemoans, "The UPC symbol is a series of bar codes which allow for computer identification of goods. Inventory, pricing, and tracking of goods by computer is now a reality. Eventually, no product produced in the world will be able to be bought or sold without this identifying mark."

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April (Web-only) 2000, Vol. 44