Press Conference & Rally in Seoul, Korea, Urges for the Shutdown of the Christian Council of Korea (CCK); an Anti-National, Anti-Societal, Anti-Religious, and Anti-Peace Organization
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On
the 27th January 2019, the 'Press Conference and Rally Calling for the Shut
Down of the Christian Council of Korea (CCK), an Anti-Nation, Anti-Society,
Anti-Religion, and Anti-Peace Organization' was co-hosted by Global Citizens
Human Rights Coalition and over 100 religious, peace, human rights and civil
organizations including Shincheonji Church of Jesus, Global Buddhist
Assembly, Interdenominational Evangelist Association, and Human
Rights Association for Victims of Coercive Conversion Programs (HAC) in Gwanghwa,
Seoul. The purpose of the rally was three-fold: disbandment of the CCK, legal
punishment for the CCK and its coercive conversion pastors, and a ban on
the coercive conversion programme.
In October
2007, Ms. Sunhwa Kim was bludgeoned to death with a hammer by her ex-husband
for refusing to renounce her beliefs and receive coercive conversion education.
He had been brainwashed by a coercive conversion pastor. Since
then, around 100 people annually have been forcibly taken as victims of
coercive conversion and dozens are still suffering silently in South Korea. On
January 8th 2018, 27-year-old Ms. Ji-In Gu was
suffocated to death by her parents during her struggle resisting coercive
conversion education. CCK pastors have been carrying
out such acts on any person they believe belongs to a ‘cult’. They deceive
victims’ family members, instilling fear in them, compelling them to make
utterly irrational actions. Legally, responsibility lies with the family, so
the pastors evade legal punishment.
Such
acts are not only a direct violation of Korean constitutional law, which
guarantees ‘freedom of religion’ (article 20), but also to the United Nations
Declaration of Human Rights. Every person should possess the right to believe in
the religion of their choice, as long as it does not threaten someone else. The
use of force by this so-called ‘orthodox’ organisation is wholly unacceptable
and corrupt by any moral standard.
In
the last ten years, 12,000 pastors of the CCK have been sentenced for crimes
including fraud, burglary, drink-driving, sexual assault and murder. Yet the
Korean government continues to remain silent because the CCK has conniving
political interests, using its authority to gain political favour. The foreign
media has sounded the trumpet far and wide since Ms. Gu’s death.
Representatives
from over 100 organisations gathered last Sunday to denounce the corrupt
actions of the CCK and urged for its dissolution. Although Korean media is
silent about this issue, it is only a matter of time before the foreign media
sounds the trumpet to the whole world and it comes falling down. The actions of
the CCK and their pastors threaten human rights and they must shut down.
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This was HUGE! I support them.
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