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campaign for a peace treaty!
The 222nd General Assembly (2016) of
the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) directed the PC(USA) to join its ecumenical
partners, especially the Presbyterian Church of Korea (PCK), the Presbyterian
Church in the Republic of Korea (PROK), the National Council of Churches in
Korea (NCCK), the Korean Christian Federation of the Democratic People’s
Republic of Korea (DPRK), the National Council of Christian Churches in the USA
(NCCCUSA), and the World Council of Churches (WCC) in efforts to pursue peace
in the Korean peninsula.
The Assembly urged members of the
PC(USA) to actively participate in the global signature campaign for a Korean
Peace treaty that is being led by the NCCK and NCCCUSA with a goal of
delivering 100,000 signatures of U.S. citizens to President Obama on July 27,
2016, the day that marks the 63rd anniversary of the armistice agreement.
Click here to join the signature
campaign for a peace treaty!
This is the longest running and the
costliest war in US history. The people of Korea are suffering under conflict
and division for over 70 years. Continuing conflict redirects valuable
resources away from the welfare of people. US policy has only increased
distrust and fear for 70 years.
The US holds a special responsibility
for peaceful resolution of the conflict as it occupied the South in 1945 and
signed the armistice in 1953. Call on President Obama to build trust by entering
negotiations now for a peace treaty to end this war without demanding
disarmament as a precondition.
Please click here for more information
and to sign the campaign!
