IPYG Peace Walk

IPYG Peace Walk 

This event, with over 27 000 participants walking for peace, received positive acclaim in more than 10 countries and resulted in 13 press releases internationally.This resulted in a domino effect of peace walks that took place globally in 23 different nations where 38 different youth organizations hosted and completed their own peace walks. 

IPYG which was started afresh by Peace Advocate Man Hee Lee is working for peace under the organization 'Heavenly Culture, World Peace and Restoration of Light(HWPL)', which was also launched by Peace Maker Man Hee Lee and we are calling for your support and participation as our partners in peace – together bringing peace to our planet.

IPYG is:

1. A youth organization-working for world peace and uniting  all international youth

2. A network of youth from across the globe working                 together to bring peace and unity to our communities

3. A network of youth from across the globe
   - currently partnered with 130 different youth and peace         organizations from 80 countries around the world

IPYG History:

1. Formed from groups of young people coming together with the vision and goal of creating a lasting change in the world through their passion and desire to see peace-loving citizens reach out to nations and counties to bring about what we all have been longing for,but have not yet been able to create – world peace,through determination to unite people across borders, cultures, languages and nationalities

2. Merged on 25 May 2013 in Seoul,S.Korea.
   now an ever-growing coalition of world youth,all partnering to unite in one goal, for one purpose of seeing   our wish for peace become a reality in our generation



 IPYG's Activities:

2014 is the year that IPYG seeks to spread its work to South Africa. Our South African branch is actively working to shine the light of peace in this beautiful country that struggles with deep internal unrest. Our vision is to invite organizations to be affiliated with IPYG and engage in collaborative projects throughout the year that will be aimed at developing practical and sustainable solutions to the challenges facing us in the pursuit of peace. We would like to take this opportunity to request your availability to come to our 'International Leaders Peace Festival'.

Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL) is a non-governmental organization whose mandate it is to put an end to war and restore world peace through a new heavenly culture.

For more Informations~
IPYG International Leaders Peace Festival
http://peacemakersza.wordpress.com/2014/05/31/ipyg-international-leaders-peace-festival/

International Peace Youth Group
http://ipyg-busansouth.blogspot.kr/p/what-is-ipyg.html?showComment=1404480375456

HWPL
https://vimeo.com/hwpl

PEACEMAKERSZAhttp://peacemakersza.wordpress.com/2014/05/31/ipyg-international-leaders-peace-festival/

Peace MakePYG INTERNATIONAL LEADERS PEACE FESTIVALhttp://peacemakersza.wordpress.com/2014/05/31/ipyg-international-leaders-peace-festival/

Removal of Syria’s Chemical Weapons ’Complete’

Removal of 
Syria’s Chemical Weapons 'Complete'

All Syrian Chemical weapons are out from Syria,  
the joint international mission overseeing 
the elimination of Damascus’ chemical weapons stockpile announced on Monday. “The Joint Mission welcomes the removal of the remaining 7.2 percent of chemical weapons material from the Syrian Arab Republic. With this last movement, the total of declared chemical weapons materials destroyed or removed from Syria has reached 100%,” the UN-Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons joint mission said in a written statement. The statement said, with the elimination of Syria’s last acknowledged stockpile of chemical weapons, the most operationally challenging task had come to an end. “We hope that our contribution will ultimately make a meaningful difference for the Syrian people and the region,” the mission said.

                                                                                        http://www.syrianews.cc/

War is just a stupid and foolish thing to do. It doesn't matter wherever and whenever it may be.Moreover concerning about atomic bombs and chemical weapons,it is such 

a insanely evil things.What kind of benefits would they have in the end? Only numerous innocent deaths.Neither of them

will be satisfied and happy at the end of it.As you all know God is love.Only Satan wants to destroy God's Creations.

It is because Satan has nothing to do with God's Creations but to interfere and opposite.Let us not be misused by evil

spirit Satan.Let us know God our true Father's deepest resentment and painful heart,Let us be grown enough to console God's bitter sorrows.Let us love each other as a family member of God's Greatest Love.That'll be the only answer for mankind's wars and conflicts throughout the human history.

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Syria conflict: Defiance inside Damascus rebel suburb

Syria conflict: 
Defiance inside Damascus rebel suburb

In the Syrian capital, Damascus, the three-year war continues unabated, with government forces trading fire with fighters in the suburbs. In his second exclusive report, the BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen crosses into Qaboun, a rebel-held district on the fringes, battle-scarred but still defiant.

In Damascus, two worlds exist very close to each other. One belongs to President Bashar al-Assad and his supporters. The other, in narrow streets and blasted buildings, is where the rebels fight on.

Fighters from various local opposition militias started appearing openly on the streets of the capital early in 2012. It was one of the regime's lowest points, as rebels seized sections of Ghouta, the belt of suburbs and satellite towns on the city's perimeter. 

In some of the suburbs now, there are local ceasefires. The Syrian army was strong enough to stop the rebels breaking through into central Damascus, but not strong enough to push back into areas which are often a tangled maze of alleys and rubble. So local truce agreements have been made. 

Qaboun has a fragile, informal ceasefire with the Syrian army, but no truce agreement yet. The fighters in Qaboun are loyal to the Free Syria Army. 

Three years of war has taken a heavy toll on Qaboun 
My guide was Abu Ammar, a man in his 30s with a beard, a leather shoulder holster and a posse of men who said they had known each other before what they called the revolution began. 











Abu Ammar said his fight was with the president, not with Assad's sect, the Alawites, which dominates the regime. 

"This is our home, our country. We have no other place. God willing, the rebels are going to win. The regime is unjust and unfair. History shows that injustice doesn't last."

Abu Ammar and his men said they would fight on until Bashar al-Assad and the regime were kicked out. 

'Fight to the end'

Government forces have tried to push into Qaboun, but have met stiff resistance.They were mostly middle-aged, all staunch Assad supporters, all wearing camouflage fatigues and carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles. Malek and his neighbours were in the National Defence Force, a sort of Home Guard.

"God protect the Syrian army, we will continue fighting until the last drop of our blood, until finishing the last armed person in our country, we will keep on them and we will smash them."

The Geneva peace talks, which failed earlier this year, revolved around ways of getting the president to stand down to allow for a transition of power. 

Now, whatever the outside world says about the poll, for President Assad's people, it is proof that his place at the top is with the consent of the Syrian people. 

                          http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27882197

It is very sorry to hear that they say they will continue fighting until the last drop of their blood,until finishing the last armed person in their country.If only they come to realize their fighting is merely Satan's Control over their thoughts and ideologies.It is meaningless to fight each other on vain man's fame and man's power which leads to the graves in Satan's snares. God is love and life.If only they understand and realize God's true Meaning of Life and His true Will over mankind.If only they both are sons of one true God their Heavenly Father.Then Peace in syria shall come true,moreover

World Peace on the earth which God and mankind have been longing for so long.If then God will dwell in us 

and live in us with eternal love.That will be a true Paradise and Utopia and El Dorado,the Land of Promise.

Peace

Peace is always beautiful

Blessed are the peacemakers.

for they shall be called sons of God.

                                                                                        Mt 5:9 

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given;

and the government shall be upon his shoulder,

and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor,Mighty God,

Everlasting Father,Prince of Peace.

                                                  Isa 9:6

I have said these things to you,

that in me you may have peace.

In the world you will have tribulation.

But take heart; I have overcome the world.
                                                      Jn 16:33 

Racial Minority Groups in the U.s.

There’s no shortage of racial groups in the United States. That’s one of the characteristics that distinguishes the nation from others. But just because the U.S. is known as a melting pot or, more recently, 
as a salad bowl, doesn’t mean that Americans are as familiar with the cultural groups in their country as they should be. The U.S. Census Bureau helps to shed light on the ethnic minorities in the U.S. by compiling statistics that break down everything from the regions certain groups are concentrated in to their contributions to the military and advances in areas such as business and education.

Interesting Facts About Blacks

For years, African Americans were the nation’s largest minority group. Today, Latinos have outpaced blacks in population growth, but African Americans continue to play an influential role in American culture. Despite this, misconceptions about African Americans persist. Census data helps to clear up some of the longstanding negative stereotypes about blacks. For example, black businesses are booming, blacks have a long tradition of military service, with black veterans amounting to more than 2 million in 2010. Moreover, blacks graduate from high school at about the same rate as Americans do overall. In places such as New York City, black immigrants lead immigrants from other racial groups in earning high school diplomas. While blacks have long been associated with urban centers in the East and Midwest, census data reveals that African Americans have relocated to the South in such large numbers that most blacks in the country now live in the former Confederacy.

Statistics About Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

As of 2012, Asian Americans made up 5 percent of the population, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Although this is a small slice of the overall American population, Asian Americans constitute one of the fastest growing groups in the country. The Asian-American population is a diverse one. Most Asian Americans have Chinese ancestry, followed by Filipino, Indian, Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese. Considered collectively, Asian Americans stand out as a minority group that has excelled beyond the mainstream in educational attainment and socioeconomic status. Asian Americans have higher household incomes than Americans generally. They also have higher rates of educational attainment. But not all Asian groups are well off. Pacific Islanders suffer from much higher rates of poverty than the Asian-American population overall does and lower levels of educational attainment. The key takeaway from census statistics about Asian Americans is to remember that this is an eclectic group.

Spotlight on the Native American Population

Thanks to movies such as Last of the Mohicans, there’s the idea that Native Americans no longer exist in the United States. While the American Indian population isn’t especially large. There are more than five million Native Americans in the U.S.—1.7 percent of the nation’s total. Nearly half of these Native Americans identify as multiracial. Most American Indians identify as Cherokee followed by Navajo, Choctaw, Mexican-American Indian, Chippewa, Sioux, Apache, and Blackfeet. Between 2000 and 2010, the Native American population actually grew by 26.7 percent, or 1.1 million. Most American Indians live in the following states: California, Oklahoma, Arizona, Texas, New York, New Mexico, Washington, North Carolina, Florida, Michigan, Alaska, Oregon, Colorado, Minnesota and Illinois. Like other minority groups, Native Americans are succeeding as entrepreneurs, with Native businesses growing by 17.7 percent from 2002 to 2007.

Profile of Irish America

Once a maligned minority group in the United States, today Irish Americans are widely part of mainstream U.S. culture. More Americans claim Irish ancestry than any other outside of German. A number of U.S. presidents, including John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama and Andrew Jackson, had Irish ancestors. At one time relegated to menial labor, Irish Americans now dominate managerial and professional positions. To boot, Irish Americans boast higher median household incomes and high school graduation rates than Americans overall. Just 6.9 percent of members of Irish American households live in poverty.

http://racerelations.about.com/od/understandingrac1/tp/Interesting-Facts-About-Racial-Minority-Groups-In-The-U-S.htm

As a melting pot of racial groups America will be a good example for one family under one God.For all different kinds of nationalities and religions are mixed and harmonized as a sample for the coming one world under one God~! It might be also God's plan and foresight setting America as a testing place for the world's union
and practicing as a model for world peace.
As it is said today,May God bless America~!

Lille Declaration on a Culture of Peace

Lille Declaration on a Culture of Peace 

The Role of Religions in the Promotion of 

a Culture of Peace

1. The spiritual dimension of religions:Religions cultivate the human spirit through spiritual practices that aim at the realisation of genuine peace both within each believer and in the wider human family. Its power can show itself in the ability to bear the unbearable, find hope where there appear to be no grounds for hope and in forgiving the unforgivable. It is also manifest in celebration  of beauty and cultivation of virtue.

 2. The ethical dimension of religions: From the spiritual depths of religions spring ethical systems which guide the lives of millions. Religious leaders on all levels can speak with moral authority on values that are deeply held and widely shared by most religious traditions and which correspond to the values in a culture of peace. Among these are respect for the inviolable dignity of each person expressed in concern for human rights, justice, compassion for the afflicted, care for the earth and its creatures, and commitment to non-violence. 

  3. The social dimension of religions:Religious traditions have vertical and horizontal structures that give them unique channels for influence and exchange of ideas and insights. In every town and village there 

is a place where people gather for worship: a church, 

a mosque, a synagogue, a temple or a gurudwara. Through varying types of networks these are linked to similar places in other locations, and to national and international bodies, thus allowing the interests of men and women everywhere to be heard by national and international leaders, and national and international insights to be disseminated to the local level. All religious traditions emphasise the importance of education, instruction and formation of children and young people. This social dimension of religions provides great potential for  communication and thereby furthering a culture of peace.

  4. The cultural dimension of religions:All religions relate to culture and can contribute to building traditions that support peace by interpreting sacred texts andtraditions and applying them under changing circumstances. Thus they bind together the lives of past, present and future generations. Explicitly and implicitly religions tell and retell stories which form the identity of the faithful and define their relationships to others. Religious narratives have the power to confirm and to challenge the present order of things.

Elements of a Culture of Peace

  1. A culture of peace is a way of living together in society which ensures the dignity of all.In a culture of peace the equal value of men and women is affirmed, 

as is the equal value of all regardless of their ethnicity 

or religious affiliation. A culture of peace-promotes responsible stewardship of the natural environment 

and justice between the generations and permeates 

our relationships from the local to the global level.

  2. A culture of peace fosters tolerance and dialogue.Tolerance can help in the search for harmony indifference and affirms the standards set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.  It should not mean acceptance of social injustice or the abandonment or weakening of one's convictions. It means that one is free to adhere to one's own convictions and accept that others adhere to theirs. From genuine tolerance follows recognition offreedom of religion.A culture of peace leads to dialogue and supports the knowledge, respect and appreciation of the other as elaborated in our Berlin Declaration on Interreligious Dialogue (2008). Tolerance respects the dignity of the other.

 3.Conflict isintrinsic in all cultures, but must not be allowed to lead to violenceand oppression.Conflicting interests and views are not in themselves a threat to peace. They present a challenge to creatively harmonise different interests. In a culture of peace everyone should striveto transformsituations ofconflicting interestsso that theirpower and dynamism arechanneled into creative development which promotes peace and harmony.

  4. A culture of peace is a culture of mutuality and shared security. A culture of peace nurtures mutual respect which allows all to participate with integrity in society.Promoting a culture of peace implies exploring together the concept of shared security, the recognition that the well-being and security of individuals and groups depend on that of the others,as elaborated in 

the 2006 Eighth World Assembly of Religions for Peace and the Religions for Peace World Summit of Religious Leaders on the Occasion of the G8 Summit, Hokkaido, Japan, 2008.

                                European Council of Religious Leaders - Religions for Peace

Traditional Religions are based on their own cultures.

Both are closely connected each other influencing

mutually.Therefore World Peace can come true religious

and cultural co-operation and help under one God.

                             http://www.rfp-europe.eu/index.cfm?id=241899