Lee Younger-hoon, senior pastor of Yoido Full Gospel Church, speaks throughout a press convention on the 4 Seasons Lodge Seoul in downtown Seoul, Tuesday. Courtesy of Yoido Full Gospel Church
Lee Younger-hoon, senior pastor of Yoido Full Gospel Church, expressed considerations concerning the pervasive affect of shamanism in all areas of Korea, warning that society is being engulfed by shamanistic beliefs, and urged the non secular group to have interaction in a religious conflict towards it.
„All the society, together with the media and dramas, is being swept away by shamanism. It’s time for the non secular group to wage a religious conflict towards shamanism. I really feel a way of disaster as if shamanism has turn out to be the mainstream and established religions have turn out to be the minority,“ the senior pastor of the nation’s largest Protestant church stated throughout a press convention in Seoul on Tuesday.
„The church should proceed to warn. If society falls into shamanism and is swayed by it, it will be unable to create a wholesome society and can as an alternative create a darkish one.“
He notably emphasised that the affect of shamanism pervading the political scene may be very severe.
„As a Christian, I specific my deep remorse that one of many key figures within the latest martial legislation declaration was a shaman,“ the pastor stated. Lee was referring to allegations that Noh Sang-won, the previous protection intelligence command chief concerned in President Yoon Suk Yeol’s Dec. 3 martial legislation imposition, was deeply immersed in shamanism.
Lee voiced considerations concerning the political battle and division arising from the martial legislation fiasco and emphasised that the non secular group ought to take the lead in nationwide unity.
„I hope that the non secular group, together with the Christian group, will unite and play a task in fixing the most important problem of easy methods to combine this polarized society,“ he stated.
This yr marks the one hundred and fortieth anniversary of the introduction of Christianity to Korea by American missionaries akin to Henry Appenzeller in 1885. To commemorate this, church buildings nationwide will maintain this yr’s Easter celebration collectively, Lee added.
„This yr’s Easter has a particular that means. Ninety-nine % of Korean church buildings will attend the united Easter service. I need to present that Christianity can unite with out division,“ he stated.
Yoido Full Gospel Church additionally shared its plans to contribute to society this yr. Lee stated the church will extra actively tackle problems with low birthrate and drug abuse in Korea.
„Our church has supplied a complete of 61 billion gained ($4.2 million) in childbirth encouragement funds from 2012 to final yr. We additionally supplied 120 strollers for single mother and father. This assist is certainly encouraging, but it surely doesn’t present a basic resolution. To unravel the low birthrate drawback, the federal government wants to handle fundamental residing bills and housing points,“ he stated.
„Former Gyeonggi Province Gov. Nam Kyung-pil is selling the institution of a drug remedy middle. Our church can even be a part of and actively assist it. Even when drug addicts go to jail, they relapse when they’re launched. They should obtain correct remedy in hospitals. Nonetheless, such remedy services are severely missing.“
