It’s not normal
TYPHOON GLENDA News Bulletin
As of July 18, 2014
Typhoon Glenda (International Name: Rammasun) hit the Philippines on July 15, 2014, and left a wide path of destruction across 7 regions of the country including the Yolanda-devastated Eastern Samar (Region 8) and the National Capital Region (NCR). Two days after its landfall, NDRMMC estimates the affected population to about 167,293 families with 54 persons reported dead, a hundred injured and three missing. Of the total affected population, 99,548 families were displaced and remain in 1,200 evacuation centers.
Looking forward to new, safe home
Ulla Kärki | 20 June 2014
NCCP has succeded in securing safe relocation sites for typhoon Haiyan victims. However, all in all reconstruction is stalling across the affected areas.
I met Evelinda Somo-Oc, 35, in Barangay Ferreras in Samar in May 28th, after the Ground Breaking, a ceremony marking the start of building on a new, safe relocation site.
Somo-Oc is one of Haiyan survivors. She was in Tacloban city with her family on the day Haiyan hit, visiting her husband’s grandmother on her birthday.
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Reflections
A reflection translated from Bong Dalisay, former NCCP-ACT Alliance Field Staff assigned in Samar & Leyte for Yolanda Response, now, a Global Mission Fellow under the program of the United Methodist Church-General Board of Global Ministries.
Helping people is never simple. If you decide to help, it’s not that simple. I also realized the essence and significance or charity and justice. As NCCP people, we know very much about justice which is very different from charity. Charity is giving food to the hungry but when we begin to ask why they are hungry and eventually, fight for the reasons why that person is hungry, that is justice. I can say now that we are doing justice in the lives of the people in Samar, in Iloilo and in all our focus areas with our Yolanda response. I want to congratulate all and be thankful to be part of this team who does not promote only charity but justice.
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Prayer Invitation of Korea to WCC member Churches
In order to carry forward the spiritual accompaniment of the Korean peninsula and the churches of North and South Korea the WCC is invited to join the Christians of North and South Korea in a joint moment of prayer. Each year, the National Council of Churches in Korea and the Korean Christian Federation jointly prepare a Prayer for Peace and Reunification of the Korean Peninsula. This prayer is used on the Sunday just before August 15 of each year, the day when Korea was liberated from Japanese colonial oppression, and ironically, the day when it was divided by external forces.
Joint Prayer for Peace and Reunification on the Korean Peninsula
God of Love!
It has been 25 years since we agreed to keep the week of Independence Day as a joint prayer week with the wish of reconciliation, and peace and reunification of the Korean Peninsula. It was a promise from the South and North Korean churches’ deep prayer to God for peace and reunification and was a vow of love in a very difficult time. We, however, still have not reached full liberation and still are experiencing conflict and hostile policies. Oh Lord! Have mercy on us.
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WCC Stament Towards a Nuclear Free World
The 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches met in a region where nuclear explosions, accidents and threats have taken a heavy toll. Northeast Asia is the only place on earth where nuclear weapons have been used in warfare. During the Cold War more than 1,000 nuclear bombs were tested in adjoining areas of the Pacific and Asia. Today all states in the region either possess nuclear weapons or depend on the US nuclear arsenal. The 100-plus nuclear power plants in East Asia and the many more planned are signs of economic prowess but also reminders of the Fukushima tragedy. South Korea has the highest geographic concentration of nuclear power plants in the world.
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