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Resolution Number: 1988-D050
Title: Join in Expressing Support for Human Rights in Japan
Legislative Action Taken: Concurred As Amended
Final Text:

Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That the 69th General Convention join the National Council of the Churches of Christ, USA, and other religious bodies and organizations and public figures in the USA, in expressing support to this human rights movement in Japan and urge the U.S. Government to protest to the Japanese government this form of oppression of foreigners, particularly the Koreans in Japan, most of whom were born and raised in that land; and be it further

Resolved, That the Executive Council be requested to make known the plight of the Koreans in Japan to this Church at large.

Citation: General Convention, Journal of the General Convention of...The Episcopal Church, Detroit, 1988 (New York: General Convention, 1989), p. 275.

 
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