HONG KONG (SE): The World Council of Churches called on all Christian organisations and Churches to observe a Sunday of Prayer for the Peaceful Reunification of the Korean Peninsula on August 13, basing their prayer around the theme from Romans 14:19, “Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification.”
 
Although this is an annual call from the council to Christians worldwide, it says that this year it has taken on a particular importance, as the president of the United States of America (US), Donald Trump, has called his big guns close to the Korean coast in what a US defence official described as a show of force, and Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang has upped the ante in his threats to strike mainland US or Guam with...