THE Anglican Church of Korea was commended for its attempts to
bring about the "peaceful reunification of the Korean Peninsula" at
the Second Worldwide Anglican Peace Conference, which ended on
Monday.
The conference took place in Okinawa, Japan, and was jointly
hosted by the Anglican Churches of Korea and Japan.
An official statement praised the Korean Church "and its
ministry for the peaceful reunification of the Korean Peninsula and
humanitarian assistance to North Koreans in need".
The National Council of Churches in Korea last week said that it
felt a "severe anxiety" at the tensions that were building between
the North and the South (News, 19
April).
In her address, the Presiding Bishop of the US Episcopal Church,
Dr Katharine Jefferts Schori, said: "Peace and harmony in every
part of the world depend on discovering our common humanity, our
shared yearning for a meaningful place in this life, the hopes we
have for our children and the world around us."
A message from the Archbishop of Canterbury said that the
conference had "come at the most needful time. . . May the
initiatives you pursue contribute to the breaking down of enmities
and to the establishment of a permanent peace on the Korean
Peninsula."