Global Catholic movement calls for Korean peace

Pax Christi, Catholic Church have to work collectively to forge peace in Korea, bishop says

A world Catholic peace motion has referred to as on the governments of South and North Korea for a roadmap to peace, reconciliation, and unification of the Korean Peninsula.

The Korean department of Pax Christi Worldwide made the attraction throughout a third-anniversary occasion marking its institution on Aug. 21.

The group has termed its activism as three years of “sowing the seeds of peace” in Korea.

Auxiliary Bishop Timothy Gyoung-chon Yu of Seoul Archdiocese attended the anniversary occasion in Seoul, the South Korean capital, and careworn the necessity of working collectively towards a standard purpose.

“It’s a very high-level group,” the prelate mentioned including, “It might be good if we might be collectively.”

Francisco Park, Director of Training and Analysis at Pax Christi Korea highlighted the risky political atmosphere on the peninsula and voiced fears of inter-Korean relations turning into extra “distant.”

“The Pax Christie motion is the mission of the twenty first century”

“If Russia joins the US-China strategic competitors, it’ll change into increasingly more solidified that it is a confrontation between Korea, the US, Japan, and North Korea, China and Russia,” the Catholic Peace Broadcasting Company (CPBC) reported Park as saying.

“Then the inter-Korean relations will change into much more distant,” he added.

In the course of the occasion, members of the group and Catholic Church officers agreed to attract up a imaginative and prescient and roadmap for peace and unification on the Korean Peninsula, apply the doctrine of peace to actuality, and enhance the participation of younger individuals.

“I believe that the Pax Christie motion is the mission of the twenty first century,” mentioned Lee Seong-hoon, Worldwide Cooperation Director at Pax Christi Korea.

He mentioned that it was an honor “to have the ability to create such a motion for younger individuals that may play a missionary position in bringing a few Catholic peace motion around the globe, and to have the ability to help it.”

The group has been concerned in numerous actions to advertise peace and unity in Korea.

“The official worldwide Catholic peace motion”

By way of World Peace Day discourse commentary and seminars, the staff members have promoted their position as “Apostles of Peace.” Over the previous few years, they’ve been conducting campaigns for peace all through the Korean Peninsula.

Pax Christi was based in Europe in 1945 as a reconciliation motion bringing collectively French and Germans after World Conflict II. Its mission is “to rework a world shaken by violence, terrorism, deepening inequalities, and international insecurity.”

Pax Christi was acknowledged as “the official worldwide Catholic peace motion” by Pope Pius XII in 1952.

The motion has 115 member organizations working in over 50 international locations. In 1983, Pax Christi Worldwide was awarded the UNESCO Peace Training Prize.

Korea cut up following the tip of Japan’s colonial rule on the finish of World Conflict II with the democratic South siding with the USA and the Soviet Union backing the communist North.

Efforts to unify Korea failed as a consequence of US and Soviet disagreements, resulting in the Korean Conflict (1950-53), which ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty, and left some 4 million lifeless and about 10 million households displaced.   

Peace and reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula are additionally main pastoral priorities for the Catholic Church in Korea.

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