By LiCAS News
THE Korean Peninsula Peace-Sharing Forum 2024 brought together faith leaders, scholars, and young people—including North Korean defectors—to explore new ways of promoting reconciliation on the divided peninsula.
Held at Coste Hall in Myeongdong Cathedral and organized by the Korea Reconciliation Committee of the Archdiocese of Seoul, this year’s forum emphasized empathy as a foundation for peace and featured fresh research and youth-led discussions.
Archbishop Peter Soon-taick Chung of Seoul, Apostolic Administrator of Pyongyang and chairman of the Korea Reconciliation Committee, opened the forum by acknowledging the daunting challenges ahead but urging hope and determination.
“The journey to peace now seems long and arduous, but we must not give up hope,” he said. “I look forward to creating hope through discussing the role of the Church and the various ways of solidarity for peace on the Korean Peninsula and in the world.”
Archbishop Giovanni Gaspari, Apostolic Nuncio to Korea, echoed these sentiments, quoting Pope Francis’ encyclical Fratelli Tutti.
He emphasized the Church’s role in fostering unity, saying, “Fraternity is the alternative to war, it is the other possible horizon. It is a path to be taken together and which all men and women on earth, believers and non-believers, are called to take for a world at peace.”
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