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Speeches
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H.J. Moon: Address to an International Leadership Conference in Korea, February 2010
- Thursday, February 18, 2010
God’s original ideal was to have humanity inherit his true love—a love that can bring even the worst evil, even Satan to natural surrender. True love is God’s essence and his divinity and the gift that God wanted to give to his children.
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A. Yamanaka: Human Development and Peace Building
- Thursday, February 18, 2010
Statement given by Prof. Akiko Yamanaka, Professional By-Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, England, and Former Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, Japan, at the International Leadership Conference in Seoul, Korea, on February 18, 2010.
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Z. Mandela: A Global Movement for Good
- Thursday, February 18, 2010
My father, Nelson Mandela, spent 67 years of his life actively devoted to promoting and bringing about social change. On Mandela Day the Nelson Mandela Foundation asks individuals to symbolically give at least 67 minutes of their time in service to their communities in whichever way they choose.
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M. Ferreira: Dialogue Can Break Down Walls
- Thursday, February 18, 2010
People are starting to believe that one day true dialogue will break down walls. The walls of the Soviet Union fell down. Many other barriers have fallen not by violence but through dialogue. We should continue this dialogue.
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A. Lu: A New Era of Soft Power
- Thursday, February 18, 2010
What I am most proud of is my commitment to the policy of soft power. Soft power is different from the tradition of hard power. Hard power has created economic exploitation. Soft power reaches out to others and involves them in partnership.
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L. del Castillo: Critical Issues, 2010-2015
- Thursday, February 18, 2010
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M. Rai: Critical Issues, 2010-2015
- Thursday, February 18, 2010
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J. Marion: UPF-Eurasia Peace Initiatives
- Thursday, February 18, 2010
I want to present some of our key activities and peace initiatives in the Eurasia region.
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H. Green: Congratulations to Participants in the World Peace Blessing
- Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Remarks given by the Hon. Hamilton Green, Mayor of Georgetown, Guyana, at the World Peace Blessing held in Seoul, Korea on February 17, 2010.
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P. Aguayo: To Change the World, We Must First Change Ourselves
- Wednesday, January 13, 2010
The presentations during the International Leadership Conference in Korea and the World Peace Blessing demonstrate the seriousness, respect, and yearning that the Federation has to unify individuals, families, institutions, religions, and governments in the quest for peace.
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V. Emelianow: Russian Islam - A Contemporary Interreligious Phenomenon
- Thursday, December 31, 2009
People who have turned to Islam because of a purely spiritual motivation face cultural and social challenges in adapting to the new religious environment. They are not necessarily welcomed with open arms by their new co-religionists, who may feel that they are being invaded by “the other.” Those who turned to Islam from a non-religious or atheistic background may not have as much difficulty adjusting to a new religious environment, but those who had believed in and practiced another faith often experience more painful social and psychological difficulties.
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L. Guedes Arroyo: Leadership
- Tuesday, December 22, 2009
While the world is burning due to the atrocities and persistent violations of human values, the people of our time—in spite of their spiritual and moral captivity—find themselves in the process of developing a new conscience for human beings to be able to overcome fear, ignorance, and isolation in the future. The necessary leadership to promote this process ought to consider the growing conscience of reality that men and women are obliged to confront permanently.