Posted on 08/21/2013 6:59:12 PM PDT by TexGrill
His Exc. Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Seoul, has called upon the Virgin Mary for help and addressed the "urgency of reconciliation" between North and South Korea, as the two nations prepare to restart family reunions.
The Archbishop said that Mary is the "Mother of reconciliation" and that Catholics entrust her with the promotion of peace on the Korean peninsula, according to Fides News Agency.
North Korea recently agreed to restart reunions of families that were separated during the 1950-1953 war, which will take place at a tourist resort in the North in September. South Korean president Park Geun-hye had called last week for a resumption of the reunions, described as highly emotional affairs, which were last held in 2010.
BBC News noted that hopes are such reunions will help ease tensions between the two countries, which are technically still at war since a peace deal was never reached in 1953.
"The reunion of separated families and their relatives shall be made in Mt Kumgang resort on the occasion of the upcoming Harvest Moon Day," revealed the North's Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea.
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