CAPITOL HILL.  Friday, October 11, 2013 --- The President of the Capitol Hill-based Irish National Caucus (INC) travels on Saturday, October 19 to Seoul, South Korea, for the "swearing in" ceremony.
 
Fr. Sean Mc Manus will be sworn in as a Judge on the World Peace Prize Awarding Council (WPPAC); while  INC Executive Vice President, Barbara J. Flaherty, will be sworn in as Roving  Ambassador for Peace.

Left, Mahatma Gandhi, one of the past recipients of the World Peace Prize.
 
" This is a great honor for the Irish National Caucus and for both Barbara and me," said Fr. Mc Manus. " I am deeply grateful to Reverend Dr. Han Min Su, the Seoul-based leader of this splendid World Peace mission .I am also honored to serve under Chief Judge, former Congressman Lester Wolff, whom I am privileged to have known for forty one years."
 
Barbara Flaherty said: "I am grateful for the opportunity to work with Dr. Han in his outstanding effort to spread the Gospel of World Peace."
 
In its Mission Statement, the WPPAC states:
“World Peace Prize is an initiative   to  promote   world  peace  and inter-religious   understanding.  It is awarded periodically   to individuals who have contributed to the causes of world peace by preventing regional conflicts or world war;  by  settling  the  disputes  of  political,  diplomatic and economic  matters;  by developing  new inventions  to minimize  threats and confusions  within mankind…”
 
The World Peace Prize is a prestigious award presented by the World Peace Corps Mission, an international Evangelical missionary organization. It was established in 1989 by the late former Congressman Robert L. Leggett (D-CA) and Reverend Dr. Han Min Su. END

Fr. Sean Mc Manus
President
Irish National Caucus
P.O. BOX 15128
Capitol Hill
Washington, DC 20003-0849
Tel. 202-544-0568
Fax. 202-488-7537
sean@irishnationalcaucus.org