wfn.org | [ENS] Religious leaders, peace activists pray, chant, sing for nuclear disarmament

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>Episcopal News Service
>May 2, 2010

Religious leaders, peace activists pray, chant, sing for nuclear  disarmament

>By Lynette Wilson

[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
was among religious leaders and activists gathered in New York May 2
at the Church Center for the United Nations for "For Peace and Human
Needs Disarm Now!" -- an interfaith convocation for the abolition of
nuclear weapons.

"It's a very important witness by many, many faith communities from
around the globe to the difficulty and the problem of nuclear
weapons," said Jefferts Schori, when asked about the convocation's
importance. "People have gathered here in advance of the U.N. meetings
this coming week to express their concern and to call for an end to
the possibility of nuclear war."

Other faith leaders participating in the standing-room-only interfaith
convocation in advance of the May 3-28 U.N. Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty conference included the Rev. Michael Kinnamon, general
secretary of the National Council of Churches; Roman Catholic
Archbishop of Nagasaki Joseph Mitsuaki Takami, a survivor of the 1945
atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan; Haruko Yaguchi, coordinator of
Japanese Religionists for Peace; and Swami Parameshananda,
international representative of Bharat Sevashram Sangha.

For peace walkers, the convocation was a destination, acknowledged
Mark Johnson, executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation.

At least four groups of peace walkers arrived on foot in New York for
events scheduled around the U.N. meeting.

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