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church hopes WCC will choose Seoul for its 2005 assembly Ecumenical News International Monday, November 30, 1998 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 3000 delegates at the 23rd general conference of the Korean Methodist Church, held in Inchon, South Korea, from October 28 to 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 take a decision before 2001.  |
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