Pray for Korean Peace and Reunification
“The distance between the North and South has become unfathomable, but we believe that the day will come when we will need each other.” We join the WCC with the peoples and churches of Korea and of the world in prayer for the peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula. This 15 August will mark the […]
WCRC supports WCC over Israeli incident
In response to the detention and deportation of participants to a World Council of Churches climate conference by Israeli authorities, the WCRC’s Executive Committee last week sent a letter of support to WCC General Secretary Olav Fykse Tveit. The letter said, in part: We join with you, Rev. Dr. Tveit, in protesting the “excessive, unreasonable […]
Pray for peace on the Korean peninsula
May the God of steadfastness and encouragement grant you to live in harmony with one another, in accordance with Christ Jesus… —Romans 15:5 In August we issued a call to prayer on behalf of our sisters and brothers on the Korean peninsula as tensions escalated. Those prayers were answered with an agreement that defused tensions […]
Prayers for peace on the Korean peninsula
“They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” —Isaiah 2:4 25 August 2015: Update Our prayers have been answered! An agreement has been reached not only to defuse the recent tension between North and South […]
WCRC shares militarization concerns in NE Asia
The National Council of Churches in Korea has issued a statement of concern regarding a recent summit between the United States and Japan which would revise the “Guidelines for US-Japan Defense Cooperation.” We share the concern of our Christian sisters and brothers in both South and North Korea regarding the growing militarization of Japan. They […]
Church in Transcarpathia serves in faith
The Reformed Church in Transcarpathia has been facing challenging times for most of its existence. Today, it finds itself a double minority—a Protestant church in an Orthodox country and an ethnically Hungarian community in a Slavic nation. While the Ukrainian portion of the Carpathian basin is wedged between Slovakia, Hungary and Romania in Ukraine’s western […]
La Paix en Colombie a besoin de prières et de soutien
En Janvier, certains dirigeants de l’Eglise Presbytérienne de Colombie qui fait partie de la Communion mondiale des Eglises réformées (CMER) ainsi que quelques dirigeants d’autres églises ont reçu des menaces de mort. Une coalition d’églises et d’organisations réconciliatrices en Colombie y ont répondu par une lettre pastorale qui déclare : Nous considérons aussi que les […]
Frieden in Kolumbien braucht Gebete und Unterstützung
Anfang des Monats haben leitende Persönlichkeiten der Presbyterianischen Kirche in Kolumbien, einer Mitgliedskirche der WGRK, ebenso wie andere Kirchenführer des Landes öffentliche Morddrohungen erhalten. Ein Bündnis von kolumbianischen Kirchen und Friedensorganisationen haben mit einem pastoralen Brief reagiert, in dem es heißt: Wir betrachten die Drohung, die gegen die Kirchen in Barranquila und gegen fünf ihrer […]
Prayers and support needed for peace in Colombia
Earlier this month leaders of the Presbyterian Church of Colombia, a member of the WCRC, as well as leaders in other churches, received very public death threats. A coalition of churches and peacemaking organisations in Colombia responded in a pastoral letter which states, in part: We also consider that the threat to churches in Barranquilla, […]
Churches must lead Korean peace initiatives says Reformed church leader
Churches need to be in the forefront of seeking peace in the Korean peninsula, says the General Secretary of the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC). “WCRC is very concerned about the increase in the war rhetoric and the resurfacing of threats of destructive nuclear weaponry,” Setri Nyomi says in a message delivered today in […]