Covenant News

Reconciliation Theme of Prague Conference

PRAGUE (September 25, 2000) - Czech Church leaders are praying that violence will be kept to a minimum as thousands of protestors demonstrate during International Monetary Fund/World Bank meetings currently under way here. Some 15,000 delegates are participating in the meetings that continue through September 30.

"These protestors are a mixed bag – skinheads, ultra-nationalists, anarchists and communist groups," said Covenant missionary Fred Prudek. "The Czech Church is praying for wisdom and . . . that the police and demonstrators would use self-restraint to keep damage and violence to a minimum," Prudek said.

The World Bank meetings follow closely on the heels of a meeting earlier in the month involving some 80 delegates - church leaders, seminary staff and pastors - who addressed the theme of reconciliation. Participants included Klyne Snodgrass, who presented a plenary paper on reconciliation between God and the individual; Glenn Palmberg, president of the Evangelical Covenant Church; Jay Phelan, president of North Park Theological Seminary; Gary Walter, executive director of the Department of Church Growth and Evangelism; Alex Rodriquex, representing CIPE; and Prudek, Covenant missionary to the Czech Republic.

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