Taiwan Church News
3403 Edition
15 – 21 May, 2017
General Assembly News
PCT Stands By President Tsai To Bid For World Health Organization
Reported by Lin Yi-yin
Under a reckless political blockade of China, Taiwan is absurdly rejected a participation into World Health Assembly(WHA) opened on May 22 at Geneva. Even worse, Taiwan status as a founding member and observer of World Health Organization(WHO) is also unfortunately denied.
In the morning on May 12, Rev Lyim Hong-tiong, PCT General Secretary, leading his staffs paying a visit to President Tsai Ing-wen at the Presidential Office to express a strong support for Taiwan’s bid to WHA and pledge to call PCT’s affiliated institutes, overseas churches and ecumenical partners to help deliver Taiwan from China’s bully.
In the meantime, in order to contribute PCT’s diplomatic effort for Taiwan’s bid to WHA and demonstrate strong concerns from ecumenical partners, both Rev Dr Olav Fykse Tveit, General Secretary of World Council of Churches(WCC), and Mr Peter Prove, director of the WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, were invited by an official letter from Rev Lyim Hong-tiong to attend a May 22 assembly jointly held by the Taiwan’s civic groups, Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Health & Welfare at Geneva.
Translated by Peter Wolfe
