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El 5 de mayo, el ex secretario general del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), Rev. Dr. Olav Fykse Tveit, recibió la Medalla de Dongbaek de la Orden del Mérito Civil de la República de Co-rea durante una ceremonia en la Embajada de Corea en Oslo (Noruega).

A "2020 Joint Easter Prayer of North-South Korea" has been published with a call for Christians and all people of good will around the world to pray for peace on the Korean Peninsula.

Ha sido publicada una “oración conjunta de Corea del Norte y Corea del Sur para la Pascua de 2020”, con un llamado a los cristianos y a las personas de buena voluntad alrededor del mundo a orar por la paz en la península de Corea.

Asia region president for the World Council of Churches (WCC) Rev. Dr Sang Chang has reminded Christians they should understand that worshipping our God of Life and protecting the God-given lives of people are the same.

La presidente del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) para la región de Asia, la Rev. Sang Chang, ha recordado a los cristianos que deben entender alabar al Dios de vida y proteger las vidas humanas que Él ha creado como una misma cosa.

The following is the second in a series about the response of the WCC, member churches and all people of goodwill to COVID-19. The purpose of these stories is to share hopes, concerns and best practices among our one human family. - WCC director of communication Marianne Ejdersten.

El Rev. Dr. Hong-Jung Lee, secretario general del Consejo Nacional de Iglesias de Corea, comparte sus reflexiones sobre el culto y las iglesias en medio de la pandemia del COVID-19.

“En estos momentos en los que la comunidad mundial del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) inicia un periodo de oraciones por la paz en la península de Corea del 1 de marzo al 15 de agosto, el mundo está preparado para una era de paz permanente”, afirmó el Rev. Dr. Hong-Jung Lee, secretario general del Consejo Nacional de Iglesias de Corea.

As the World Council of Churches (WCC) global fellowship embarks on prayers for peace on the Korean Peninsula from 1 March to 15 August, the world is ready for an era of permanent peace, said Rev. Dr Hong-Jung Lee, general secretary of the National Council of Churches in Korea.

With the announcement on 6 February of a Global Prayer Campaign for peace on the Korean Peninsula, World Council of Churches (WCC) leaders and partners looked back at 30-plus years of history and forward to events planned for 2020.

Con ocasión de la presentación de la campaña mundial de oración por la paz en la península de Corea el 6 de febrero, dirigentes y asociados del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI) consideraron los más de treinta años de historia y los eventos planificados para 2020.

Erich Weingartner, who previously helped lead the World Council of Churches (WCC) Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, has also represented CanKor, a Canadian interactive resource on North Korea. From the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada, he was also founding head of the Food Aid Liaison Unit of the World Food Programme.

Erich Weingartner, quien anteriormente ha participado en la dirección de la Comisión de las Iglesias para Asuntos Internacionales del Consejo Mundial de Iglesias (CMI), también ha representado a CanKor, un recurso interactivo canadiense sobre Corea del Norte. Desde la Iglesia Evangélica Luterana en Canadá, fue asimismo fundador y director de la Dependencia de Enlace de la Ayuda Alimentaria del Programa Mundial de Alimentos.

A war erupted on the Korean Peninsula 70 years ago that divided Korea and that has yet to end. So, the world’s churches have launched a “70 Days of Prayers - Global Prayer Campaign” for peace.

Hace setenta años, en la península de Corea estalló una guerra que dividió Corea y que todavía no ha concluido. Por ello, las iglesias del mundo han puesto en marcha la campaña mundial de oración por la paz “Setenta días de oraciones”.

A global prayer campaign for peace on the Korean Peninsula will occur from 1 March – 15 August, lasting 70 days and inviting hundreds of thousands of people worldwide to say: “We Pray, Peace Now, End the War!”

World Council of Churches invites the media representatives to the event announcing 70 days of global prayer for peace on the Korean Peninsula on 6 February at 11.30 CET at the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva.

On day 847 of a 1,000-day pilgrimage for peace on the Korean Peninsula, the Bargn Nuri Community stopped at the WCC for a Life and Peace Conference.

Even as international tension mounts, religious leaders from North and South Korea renewed their exchange during a December meeting that kept the push for peace alive. Members of the Steering Committee of the Ecumenical Forum for Peace, Reunification and Cooperation on the Korean Peninsula – including delegations from the Korean Christian Federation (KCF) of North Korea and of the National Council of Churches in South Korea (NCCK) – met in Shenyang, China, on 2-3 December 2019.

Churches across the Korean Peninsula will mark the year 2020 as a “jubilee year,” and, as they commemorate 70 years since the Korean War, religious leaders are pledging to redouble their ongoing efforts for stronger peace and reunification.