On January 13 (local time), the Korean Christian Council of the World (KCCW; executive director Rev. Jang Samuel Seok-jin) held a “New York Forum on Peaceful Reunification of the Korean Peninsula” at New York Korean Evangelical Church, with the participation of 70 some ministers from the Americas and reunification experts from Korea and around the world.
While the anti-communist sentiment is still very strong among the churches in Korea, it was suggested during the Forum that, as messengers of peace and reconciliation, overseas Korean churches need to work hard to change the hostile policies of both the South and the North Korean governments. Many agreed that the Korean churches, inclined neither to the South nor to the North, have an important role to play in the reunification process as reconcilers.
In the first photo, Prof. Koo Choon-Seo (second from left) makes a presentation during the New York Forum on Peaceful Reunification of the Korean Peninsula, at New York Korean Evangelical Church on January 13.
In the second photo, KCCW staff and pastors from the Americas pose after the New York Forum.
Article and photo by reporter Se Ook Koh (swkoh@kmib.co.kr) from New York, with Yeara Ahn-Park (yap@kmib.co.kr)
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