{"id":326674,"date":"2014-09-14T03:00:48","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T01:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/unity-and-harmony-in-asia\/"},"modified":"2024-05-16T14:58:01","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T12:58:01","slug":"unity-and-harmony-in-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/unity-and-harmony-in-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Unity and Harmony in Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"acrp8\"It is not possible to construct peace without the contribution of the religions. <\/b>In recent there have been many appeals from high level religious and civil leaders like Shimon Peres, with his idea for a \u201cUN of Religions\u201d <\/b>as an antidote to global terrorism and violence, or the interreligious meetings like the one recently promoted by the Community of Sant\u2019Egidio<\/a>. Another important push was offered by the 8th Conference of Religions for Peace (ACRP) that was held in Incheon, South Korea<\/a> on August 25-29, 2014. There could not have been a better place for sending a message about unity and reconciliation among lands and peoples. In spite of its being the cradle of the main monotheistic religions, the container of a vast cultural diversity, Asia has been above all a theatre of war for many major conflicts. The Focolare <\/a>has also offered a contribution: Christina Lee who is in charge of the Movement\u2019s interreligious dialogue<\/a>, presented a talk at a pre-assembly meeting on women. In that talk which was titled \u201cInterreligious Prayer and Meditation,\u201d she highlighted the role of women as builders of peace in the world and in Asia: \u201cthat we might dream as a community in dialogue, comprised of people from different cultures and relgions, who are experience suffering and poverty but desire a united Asia.\u201d As a first step, she proposed a training itinerary for the different religious communities, to uncover the spiritual patrimony of Asia and to provide visible signs of unity and harmony. In her message, the Focolare president <\/a>also expressed her wish that effort based on love, compassion, forgiveness and devotion might help in contributing to the realisation of unity and harmony in Asia and beyond. In his message, Pope Francis<\/strong> reiterated that dialogue and cooperation among religions remains the most secure path towards peace and \u201cwithout fraternity the construction of a just society and solid peace will be impossible.\u201d His words were both a warning and a desire for the 450 people who attended the ACRP, travelling from seventeen Asian countries, with representatives from Iraq and Kyrgystan. The title \u201cUnity and Harmony in Asia\u201d <\/b>says a lot about the premise and expectations of the conference that has been operating for 40 years and representing the religious creed of more that two thirds of the world\u2019s population. \"20140914-01\"A fourth group was added to the three work commissions: <\/b>educating towards peace and reconciliation; human dignity and welfare; environmental and ecological development, the unification of the Korean penninsula and peace in Northeast Asia. The fourth group, under the guidance of the Korean Conference of Religions for Peace (KCRP), formulated its own declaration in support of the process of national reunification. One member remarked: \u201cThe real work begins now in our religious communities and in civil society.\u201d The final document, the \u201cIncheon Declaration,\u201d describes the tracks: the common commitment to peace; the call to work for the social cohesion of the continent; working for the unification of the Korean peninsula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eighth Asian Conference of Religions for Peace (ACRP) in South Korea reasserts the commitment of relgions to peace and social harmony, dialogue and reconciliation among peoples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}