Christian Post reports: At a recent press conference in Washington DC, Michael J. Horowitz, director of Hudson Institute’s Project for Civil Justice Reform and Project for International Religious Liberty, suggested that the fate of North Korea depend on the courage of Korean-Americans, and challenged more than 100 Korean-America Christians on Tuesday at a press conference to speak out for North Koreans.

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From Christian Post: The World Evangelical Alliance, which serves  and connects over 420 millions evangelicals worldwide, will be holding its 2014 General Assembly in South Korea, now the second largest missionary-sending country in the world (after the U.S). This move signals the increasing importance of Asia on the global Christian stage. Read more here.

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Tension continues to escalate in an already tense situation between North Korea and South Korea. According to this report from Mission Network News, North Korea has “invalidated the 2004 accord designed to prevent an escalation of war along the Demilitarized Zone,  a 2.5-mile-wide buffer between Korea’s two opposing armies.” All this is the result of an incident in March where 46 sailors died as a South Korean navy corvette was torpedoed. International investigators  have concluded that North Korea was behind the attack, a charge that has angered the reclusive communist regime. Possible retaliations from both sides could mean serious consequence for the region and its people. New York Times has more on the situation.

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Starting Monday, some 200 Lausanne leaders will gather from 60 countries for the movement’s biennial meeting at the Presbyterian College and Theological Seminary (PCTS) in Seoul.

While leaders hope to maximise the fellowship of the international Lausanne constituency during the June 8 to 12 meeting, most pressing on the agenda will be the confirming of plans for Cape Town 2010, the third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelisation.

“Many key details of Cape Town 2010 will be finalised in Seoul,” said Dr Michael Oh, president of Christ Bible Seminary in Japan and a member of the Lausanne Administrative Committee.

“It’s certainly our hope and prayer that the Lord will use Cape Town 2010 to impact to the very ends of the earth,” he added in the Lausanne Movement’s official weblog.

Though more than a year away, Cape Town 2010 is building up much anticipation for those familiar with the outcomes of past gatherings.

Called by a committee headed by the Rev Billy Graham, the Lausanne Movement officially started in 1974 when the first International Congress on World Evangelisation was held in Lausanne, Switzerland. Lausanne I drew more than 2,700 evangelical leaders from 150 countries and resulted with the Lausanne Covenant, an evangelical manifesto considered to be one of the most influential documents in Christendom.

Time magazine described the Lausanne Congress as “a formidable forum, possibly the widest-ranging meeting of Christians ever held”.

“There is a great sense of anticipation and excitement growing about Cape Town 2010 among Christians around the world. Tremendous investments in prayer, finances, energy, and hope are fueling the preparations for CT2010,” said Oh.

When the upcoming congress, Lausanne III, opens next October in Cape Town, South Africa, over 4,000 leaders from 200 countries will be gathered while thousands more are expected to participate online and through other media.

Aside from praying, worshipping, and learning, the leaders will be engaging new ideas, strategies and resources to share Christ.

“That’s what Cape Town 2010 is all about,” says Lausanne spokeswoman Naomi Frizzell. “Coming together as the body of Christ (in person and virtually).”

To prepare for the Third International Congress, a five-day-long planning session for the gathering will be held during the International Leadership Meeting in Seoul.

This week’s biennial gathering will bring together about 250 church leaders from 60 countries who will be together making important decisions regarding how to engage the 4,000 on-site participants and develop meaningful involvement by potentially tens of thousands of leaders virtually through Cape Town GlobaLink and the Lausanne Global Conversation.

In his report, Oh asked for prayers for wisdom, unity, humility, and faith.

“Two hundred leaders having one mind and heart is a humanly impossible task,” the Lausanne leader admitted. “But in the most powerful and enduring way we already are one in Christ, and that is our greatest hope and confidence as we look to the Spirit of God to unite us practically as we already are spiritually.”

According to the movement, this week’s gathering of international leaders will be the last before Cape Town 2010, which will be held at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from October 16 to 25, 2010.

Starting this August, official invitations to next year’s congress in Cape Town will go out to Christian leaders, each of whom had to be nominated by the selection committee of their region and approved by the International Participant Selection Committee.

The last congress, Lausanne II, was held in 1989 in Manila, Philippines.

Source: Christianity Today: Leaders to bolster plans for next Lausanne congress