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broadcasting agencies throughout the southern African region have blasted the
trumpet of victory against the Christian Council of Korea (CCK) by publicising
the numerous anti-CCK rallies held worldwide over the last two weeks. Botswana
News, Bay TV, Gau TV and Namibia Broadcasting Corporation have joined the likes
of The New York Times, Washington Post and other major newspaper and news broadcasting
stations in raising awareness of the 30,000-strong rally hosted by Global Citizens’
Human Rights Coalition (GCHRC) - an alliance of nearly
100 civil and human rights organisations and religious groups - in Seoul, Republic
of Korea, on 27th January, urging for the
shutdown of the CCK. This triggered numerous subsequent rallies throughout the
world. The rally in Seoul came in direct response to the serious abuse of
religious freedoms committed by the CCK through their
‘coercive conversion programme’, which led to the death of 27-year-old Ms. Ji-In Gu on January 9th 2018 in the Republic of
Korea.
Subsequent rallies
were held worldwide on 2nd and 3rd February including cities
across the southern Africa - Windhoek, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth
and Harare, to name a few. Although these rallies were held during United
Nations World Interfaith Harmony Week, which serves to promote peace and
tolerance among religions and religious organisations, the reality is that the
persecution of religious freedom is on the increase; not least within the ‘democratic’
Republic of Korea.
What is coercive conversion you might ask? The coercive
conversion programme is one conceived and implemented by the CCK whereby
pastors affiliated to the CCK target believers of minority faiths and, through
fear, manipulate families to abduct and drug their loved one and confine them
in a remote location whereupon a pastor verbally berates the victim until he or
she renounces their beliefs and accepts the Presbyterian teachings of the CCK.
Pastors receive money for doing this and evade legal punishment. It is a truly backward
practice taking place in a country which supposedly has the freedom of religion
enshrined within article 20 of its constitution. What’s more, roughly 1250 south
Koreans have become victims to this programme over the last ten years. To date,
the Korean government has remained silent but overseas media will surely force
them to address the situation and shutdown the CCK. In the last ten years, some
12,000 pastors affiliated to the CCK have been convicted of crimes including
fraud, harassment, drink-driving and sexual assault.
At rallies
throughout the world, numerous faith leaders have denounced the inhumane practices
of the CCK and emphasised the importance of religious tolerance. In Windhoek, Namibia,
Imam Sabouri said, “You might think, for example, that Christianity is right. I
might think lslam is right. The other might think the other is right. We can invite
each other and try to convince each other that one is the right or wrong way, but
we can not force each other.” Pastor Isak Kharob, Association for Charismatic
and Pentecostal Churches of Namibia (ACPCN), spoke more strongly, saying “How
can a person created in the image and likeness of God become like someone who
lacks understanding and do whatever they want to force someone else into another
religion? That is very wrong.”
Shortly after
the first 27th January rally in Seoul, Korea, a woman in her forties
had been dramatically rescued in Korea after her seeking friends had heard her
cries coming out of secluded lodgings as she was receiving coercive conversion
education. Today, there are dozens of victims like her confined against their will
who are suffering silently.
To raise your voice and help end coercive conversion, please
visit http://endcoerciveconversion.org/
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