KNCC. 17.06.2020

70 Years of the Korean War:
Korean Christian Church Peace Appeal

Korea Christian Church Council (NCCK): Theological Committee, Reconciliation and Reunification Committee, Justice and Peace Committee, Women's Committee
NCCK Theology Committee celebrates the 70th year of the Korean War. On June 12th, the Reconciliation and Reunification Committee, the Justice and Peace Committee, and the Women's Committee Theological Forum <70 Years of the Korean War, the Church's Task for National Reconciliation and Peace on the Korean Peninsula> Held.
The four committees that participated in the announcement of <70 Years of the Korean War, Korean Christian Church Peaceful Appeals> in hopes of solidarity with all those who are at home and abroad for peace on the Korean Peninsula, clarifying the will of the Korean Church toward peace and national reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula. The full text is below.

70 Years of the Korean War:
Korean Christian Church Peace Appeal

''Do your best to reach peace" (Psalm 34:14)

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On June 25,1950, the war began, but it is still 70 years without confirmation of the end. The 70-year history of war, division, confrontation and hatred has left deep scars on every aspect of the individual and community, from political and economic institutions to social and cultural order, as well as people's memories and emotions. And the Korean church has also been a prisoner of war and division, and has lived for the past 70 years. No one is free from the order of confrontation and hatred caused by war and division on the Korean Peninsula. Therefore, the efforts of Korean society and the church to end the war and overcome the divisional order are not just related to the geopolitical international order This is a question of the full recovery of all life in the South and North. Every individual, every community is an effort to escape from the oppressive values and order brought by war and division, and to rediscover each other with the eyes of reconciliation and forgiveness beyond memories of war, genocide, confrontation and hatred. ...

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