- The Chair of PoWR visited Daesoon Jinrihoe Yeoju Headquarters Temple Complex
- 2019-11-03
On October 2, 2019, Audrey Kitagawa, the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the PoWR, visited Daesoon Jinrihoe Yeoju Headquarters Temple Complex prior to the opening of the 2019 Yeoju Eco-Forum. Previously, she served as an Advisor to the Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary General for Children and Armed Conflict at the United Nations. Currently, she is the Chair of the UN Task Force and the Programmatic Areas Standing Committee of the PoWR.
During her meeting with President Yun Eun-Do, Audrey Kitagawa said that it was the first time for her to engage in an exchange with religious groups in Asia although she hasactively interacted with many while in Europe, Australia, and the USA. She said “Through this forum, I hope that many resources owned by various religions of the east and the west can be used for the harmony and peace of the world.” She also said “I wish each of the religions go beyond their own ideologies and form a discourse on the solution for ecological crisis and the realization of world peace.” In his response, President Yun Eun-Do said “We are already trying to practice the idea of Sangsaeng, and I will positively consider expanding interfaith dialogue on harmony and Sangsaeng.”Meanwhile, the PoWR acts as a trans-religious organization that connects religions to social groups and provides ethical and universal principles to facilitate cooperation among many different groups of people. Also, the PoWR carries out various activities in close collaboration with institutions related to UN’s projects on Environmentalism or World Hunger.
