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Peace efforts praised by conference

26 April 2013

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."

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