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Nearly 1,200 priests urge South Korean president to resign
18-06-2009
SEOUL, South Korea (CNS) -- Nearly 1,200 South Korean priests have signed a petition urging President Lee Myung-bak to step down, reported the Asian church news agency UCA News.
"We can no longer bear the current situation that is destroying democracy," said the statement from the Catholic Priests' Association for Justice.
The priests charged the government with suppressing the voice of the people through excessive use of power. They also accused the country's political leaders of planning to revise media laws in an effort to further gag public opinion.
In their petition, the priests highlighted an incident last year in which the government blocked protests over the import of U.S. beef believed to be at risk of contamination with mad cow disease.
Hundreds of thousands of people attended candlelight vigils to protest the imports, but the government blocked the marches by placing containers on Seoul's main street.
The priests' association also demanded greater freedom of speech during a June 15 Mass in central Seoul. About 200 priests and 300 religious and laypeople attended the event at the site of a fatal protest held earlier this year.
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/briefs/cns/20090617.htm
