HWPL
holds Korea-China-Japan Trilateral Religious Leaders’ Peace Conference
While
interfaith discussions on peace has endorsed various peace movements throughout
the world, 120 prominent representatives of Korean, Chinese, and Japanese
religious circles came together in Gyeonggi, Korea today (Wednesday).
Heavenly
Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL), an international
non-governmental organization for peace, hosted a Korea- China- Japan
Trilateral Religious Leaders’ Peace Conference with the goal of putting
religious boundaries aside to achieve peace together.
Leaders
representing Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Christianity, Taoism, Confucianism,
and indigenous religions discussed the roles of spiritual leaders and the
concept of peace based on each respective religious texts. These discussions
led to stimulating debate and mutual understanding among different faiths.
Chairman
Man Hee Lee of HWPL awakened the duties of religious leaders of today.
“Religious leaders have a crucial role in constantly studying and determining
which religious scripture is the most believable to achieve peace. Leaders are
responsible for their congregations that differences in religions must not
hinder the progress of peace and harmony in the interfaith world. I hope we,
leaders of religions of the Northeast Asia, will establish a path to peaceful
coexistence,” he said.
Chairwoman
Nam Hee Kim of the International Women’s Peace Group (IWPG) also urged the
participants to actively cooperate with the alliance of religions projects
advocated by HWPL.
Hyegeo,
Abbot of Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism Geumgang Seonwon stated during his
congratulatory remarks, “I give my deepest appreciation on behalf of all Korean
Buddhist leaders for hosting this conference which lays foundations for
prosperity and peace in Asia. I strongly believe that world peace, longed by
every religion for a significant amount of time, will be achieved through
efforts like this.”
The
background of this peace conference is HWPL’s World Alliance of Religions’
Peace Office (WARP) Meetings, a series of the worldwide interfaith peace
dialogue solely based on scriptures aimed at establishing alliance of religions
and preventing causes of conflicts which involves religious misunderstandings.
Syed Reza Hosseini Nassab, Islam Grand Ayatollah of Ahlul Bayt Assembly of
Canada, who has been attending 9 consecutive WARP Office meetings said “WARP
Office is where we can understand each other and keep up our conversations. If
all religious gather here and try to understand each other, war will no more
occur” to encourage religious leaders to participate the meetings. Currently,
172 WARP Offices are established in 85 countries.
Source: HWPL
