Taiwan Church News 3208 Edition August 19 - August 25, 2013 Headline News Reported by Lin Yi-ying "What we can do for Taiwan's Anti-Nuclear Movement?", asked the leaders of NNAA, acronymated for No Nuke Asia Actions, to PCTGeneral Assembly Office in order to promote the environmental safety for north-eastern Asia. Three prominent leaders of NNAA, Tsuei Sen-Jou - General Affairs Chief of NNAA, Kim Jung-fu - President of Asian Pacific Life Studies and Lee Dar-ju - Chief Operation Officer of ASIA Peaceful Citizen NET, visited Taiwan on August 16. After the nuclear disaster of Japan Fukushima No. 1 power plant, Tsuei Sen-Jou started to file law suits against theconglomerate like Mitsubishi, Toshiba and GE Electric who are the major manufacturers of power generating facilities for nuclear power plant. He claimed for a gigantic compensation to these profits-oriented conglomerate, as a deterrent strategy to stop their manufacture. As GE Electric is also the major supplier to Taiwan's nuclear plants, Tsuei invited PCT to join NNAA's law suit against GE. He also expected PCT could send representatives to learn how the aftermath of this nuclear calamity affected the Sendai area in Japan. Kim Jung-fu suggested the churches of Taiwan, Japan and Korea should unite together and express their anti-nuclear stance onthe 10th WCC General Assembly at Busan. In his remarks, Kim mentioned some concrete measures to be utilized by the church: not only the current status of anti-nuclear movements of these countries could be introduced during the WCC assembly, but also something like 90 minutes learning camp for anti-nuclear movement, or to discuss the nuclear issues openly in the Busan assembly. These measures are to urge WCC concur anti-nuclear movement as a praxis of Christian faith and proceed to deliver an anti-nuclear statement finally. Rev. Lyim Hong-tiong, General Secretary of PCT General Assembly Office, expressed he was very glad to have these suggestionsfrom our Asian partners. As PCT General Assembly is a democratic institute and respects the opinions from all related parties, said Rev. Lyim, PCT would be happily to comply once some resolutions are reached. In order to learn more about the Anti-Nuclear Movement of Taiwan, under the arrangement of Rev. Ng Tiat-gan, leaders of NNAA were introduced to visit the Homemakers Union Consumers Co-op(HUCC) and Taiwan Environmental Protection Union(TEPU) on August 17 and 18. They went back to Japan and Korea by airplane on August 19. Translated by Peter Wolfe |