Park Seong-won at the Uniting General Council, WCRC, Grand Rapids, 2010
Moving against the current: two global church networks merge
The world’s two largest networks of Protestant churches in the Reformed tradition are meeting in Grand Rapids in the northeastern United States June 18 - 26 to found a new organization signaling a new level of relationship between two families of churches once divided from each other.
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An Ecumenical Call from Hwacheon
FOR A WORLD OF PEACE: A WORLD FREE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS
A group of persons active in the ecumenical movement from, Canada, Fiji, Korea, Norway, Pakistan, the Philippines and the USA, committed to building a world of peace, a world free of nuclear weapons, came together from 4 to 6 December 2009, in Hwacheon, Republic of Korea, seeking ways to strengthen the ecumenical movement for urgent action on nuclear disarmament (possibly in cooperation with interfaith movements).
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The Chiang Mai Declaration
AGAPE Consultation on Poverty, Wealth and Ecology in Asia and the Pacific
Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2-6 November 2009
WCC-CCA-PCC
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In Chinese classic, there is a word saying "Be rich, you won't be humane (jen); be humane, you won't be rich."
If we rephrase this for a spiritual connotation, this word can be said as follows:
"Be rich, you won't be spiritual; be spiritual, you won't be rich."
This would mean that there would be a fundamental difficulty in connecting the state of being rich and the condition of being authentically humane, or being rich and being truly spiritual.
