The platform of the event, “World Alliance of Religions’ Peace (WARP) Office” meeting, was formed by an international peace NGO under the UN ECOSOC, Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL), in cooperation with Volunteer Individuals for Peace (VIP), a non-profit corporation registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the Philippines.
Religious leaders of various sects reaching an agreement for the importance of finding the most trustworthy scripture through comparative studies on religious scriptures for peace and the truth to achieve religious reconciliation through interfaith dialogue was discussed at this event.
Mr. Roberto Mata, the Operations Manager of Islamic Studies Call and Guidance of Philippines, said, “If we eventually find the trustworthy Scripture and if that scripture is proven the trustworthy Scripture then we have to accept it wholeheartedly even if it is not our own Scripture, for the sake of our unification.”
Chairman Man Hee Lee of HWPL said, “Although religion has to do good and deliver hope to the world, many of today’s conflicts are caused by religion. Isn’t it worse than a non-believer? That is why religions must return to the truth. Religions will become one under trustworthy Scripture. Therefore, religious leaders worldwide should participate in the WARP Office meeting and proceed the comparative studies on scriptures.”
At the event, the voices of denouncing religious organizations and religious leaders who destroy peace and human rights, and use religion a means of profits followed. Not only the leaders of religion but the civil society also urged for banning illegal acts of violation of human rights.
Mr. Shin Chang Kim, the representative of the Global Citizens’ Human Rights Coalition to Call for the Shutdown of the CCK, shared the cases of victims that have suffered under coercive conversion by Christian Council of Korea (CCK), which brought out a civic demonstration against human rights violation.
Rev. Marcel Tanguilan, Pastor of the Knox United Methodist Church, rebuked the coercive conversion, quoting it as “devilish acts”, carried out by the corrupted religious groups whereas Rev. Jun Ewick, Senior pastor of New life Evangelical Holy Church, called for the closure of such religious groups.
The meeting ended by delivering a commemorative plaque that holds the pledge of the religious leaders accomplishing the search of the trustworthy scripture in this very year, 2019. The Plaque was delivered to chairman Man Hee Lee, the founder of the Peace Initiative: World Alliance of Religions’ Peace [WARP] Office.
According to HWPL, WARP Office meeting is being hosted in 219 locations from 128 countries to encourage religious harmony to promote peace-building, as it is witnessed that religion has recently triggered global conflicts. HWPL says that comparative studies on religious scripture can pave the way to finding common core values of humanity transcending differences.
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