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11-December-1998 
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    Korean Church Invites WCC For Its 2005 Assembly 
 
    by Ecumenical News International 
 
SEOUL-As the World Council of Churches prepares to hold its eighth assembly 
in Harare, Zimbabwe, in December, a Methodist church in South Korea has 
decided to invite the WCC to hold 
its ninth assembly -  in 2005 - in Seoul. 
 
    More than 3,000 delegates at the 23rd general conference of the Korean 
Methodist Church, held in Inchon, South Korea, from Oct. 28-30, unanimously 
approved a draft proposal to invite the WCC to  hold its assembly, a major 
ecumenical event held every seven years, in Seoul, 
South Korea's capital. 
 
    The conference declared that it expected that by 2005 Korea, which has 
been divided since  the end of the Second World War, would be reunited. 
But if the Korean Peninsula was not reunified, "all world churches should 
come to Korea and pray to God to solve the problem of Korea's division." 
 
    The Korean church, which has more than a million members, will put the 
proposal to the assembly in Harare, even though the Korean church is aware 
that the new WCC central committee -  to be chosen during the Harare 
assembly - is unlikely to make a decision before 2001. 

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