New U N Sec-General is a Christian

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SOUTH KOREAN CHRISTIAN TO REPLACE KOFI ANNAN AS UN SECRETARY GENERAL

"Polite when he speaks, smiling easily, he may not seem charismatic, but he
has inner strength." This is how the Korean Herald introduced Ban Ki-noon,
South Korea's foreign affairs minister who has been confirmed as the next UN
secretary-general, succeeding Kofi Annan.

John Bolton, US representative at the UN said, "Knowing the personality of
the South Korean foreign affairs minister, many analysts take the view that
the Security Council could not have found a better person to succeed Kofi
Annan." The report states that "Ban Ki-moon was born in 1944 to a rural
family in South Korea. He is married with three children.

A Christian, he is member of a 'group without Church', a serious
organization that emerged in Japan at the beginning of last century. Its
members, mostly intellectuals, make the Gospel a source of inspiration for
their private and public life.

Source: Asia News

[Matthew Johnson]

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SOUTH KOREAN CHRISTIAN TO REPLACE KOFI ANNAN AS UN SECRETARY GENERAL

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A Christian, he is member of a 'group without Church', a serious
organization that emerged in Japan at the beginning of last century.

How 'serious' an organization can this be? I thought Ephesians was pretty clear:
no person is a Christian unless he is in the Church. Yet this man pretends he
can be Christian without being in a Church. Who does he think he is fooling --
unless he is fooling only himself?

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