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Following last week’s ministerial notice of the government’s decision to resume US beef imports (PROK E-News June 2008), the administration, taking what many perceived as an attitude of heightened arrogance, declared the candlelight street protests illegal, and the use of violence by the police in suppressing the protests dramatically increased.

The PROK welcomes the DPRK’s declaration of its nuclear program and destruction of the cooling tower

In 1884, the first Protestant Church was built by Suh Sang-Ryun in Sorai, Hwanghae Province in what is now North Korea. Suh was a layperson who was baptized in Manchuria and returned to Korea to evangelize. One of the unique characteristics of Korean Christianity is that Koreans themselves, on their own initiative, began to translate the Gospel and build churches before foreign missionaries came to Korea. 

Hanshin University celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2010. Throughout its 70-year history as a college of theological studies and 30-year history as a university for a variety of academic disciplines, Hanshin has shared the adversities and aspirations of Korea. 

At the ecumenical meeting at Arnoldshain in Germany on February 16, the National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK) and the Korea Christian Federation (KCF) in the North have met and agreed to use "Common Easter Prayer of the Churches of South and North Korea" for the coming Easter Sunday on March 23rd, 2008.

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News from North Korea and South Korea, sent by Global Ministries partner the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea (PROK)

As the captivity of the Korean hostages held by the Taliban in Afghanistan stretches to agonizing length, the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea (PROK) and ecumenical partners are praying in united faith. The killing of a second hostage prompted the PROK to send out an urgent appeal for prayer on July 31st, calling on "the entire ecumenical community around the world to pray to God that the killings of innocent people may stop and that these hostages may safely return to their families."

Between May 15 and May 24 the Northwest Regional Christian Church and the Pacific Northwest Conference of the United Church of Christ hosted nineteen people from the Dong Kwang Church and the Presbytery of South Korea on an official visit to the Northwest.  This was the every-other year exchange as part of a partnership agreement with conference/region and the PROK.

This Common Prayer is written jointly every year by the National Council of Churches in Korea (NCCK) and the Korean Christian Federation (KCF).  We ask that this prayer be lifted in churches around the world together with Korean Christians on the Sunday closest to August 15, the anniversary of the liberation of Korea from Japan in 1945, followed so tragically by the division of the peninsula.