Moon Time to Beat Swords into Plowshares News Conference TODAY at 11 a m CDT in Illinois US Newswire Sept 24 2005 536 words Hide details Show details Document Type Newswire Bookmark Bookmark this Document Full Text COPYRIGHT 2005 COMTEX News Network Inc Sep 24 2005 U S Newswire via COMTEX News Advisory Moon Time to Beat Swords into Plowshares 85 Year old Evangelist Proposes Bering Strait Peace Tunnel Addresses Divisions in America U N Reform in Interfaith Meeting WHAT 10th Annual True Family Values Awards Banquet News Conference WHEN TODAY Sept 24 11 a m Diplomat Room WHERE Hyatt Regency O Hare Grand Ballroom 9300 Bryn Mawr Ave Rosemont Ill WHO Rev and Mrs Sun Myung Moon Archbishop George Augustus Stallings Imani Temple African American Catholic Congregation Imam Ameer Salahuddin Islamic Center of Passaic County Pastor Leroy Elliott New Greater St John Missionary Baptist Church Rabbi David Ben Ami American Forum for Jewish Christian Muslim Cooperation Rev Jesse Edwards Pentecostal Family Church Philadelphia PA Rev A P Randall Pastor of Twelve Gates Missionary Baptist Church Rabbi Dr Mordechai Waldman Southfield MI Rev Dr C Phillip Johnson New Prospect Family Praise and Worship Center Dr Arnold Howard Enon Baptist Church national and local interfaith leaders BACKGROUND The Reverend Sun Myung Moon has launched what some believe is his final speaking tour in America issuing a series of challenges to this nation Rev Moon s visit to Chicago coincides with the 10th Annual True Family Values Awards Banquet A crowd expected at more than 2000 will help celebrate as a number of Chicago community leaders receive appointments as Ambassadors For Peace The 12 US venues represent the first leg of a 100 city world tour to inaugurate the Universal Peace Federation Asserting that peace can not be achieved through diplomatic and military means alone Moon emphasizes the need for interreligious reconciliation calling for renewal and reform at the United Nations Addressing the economic and racial divisions in America and the world he proposes cooperative international efforts in key areas Why must we continue pouring countless dollars into wars that in the end will never bring the reconciliation of enemies Moon asks The time has come for all countries to pool their resources and advance toward the world of peace desired by God The still dynamic spiritual leader has launched a dramatic appeal to the world community to undertake the most ambitious civil engineering project in history a 51 mile bridge and tunnel connecting the United States and Russia physically and symbolically uniting East and West to be built across the Bering Strait at a cost of over 200bn Moon asserts that such projects will help connect the world as a single community generate economic development and redirect the focus of the world s leadership The Universal Peace Federation promotes interreligious reconciliation family renewal and cooperative service for others as the basis for lasting peace Rev Moon has been building bridges all his life to bring the races and religions of the world together It is natural that he would now launch this visionary appeal to physically unite the world in a project that demands peaceful cooperation Archbishop George Stallings Christianity Washington D C The man is hitting on all the spiritual hot buttons of contemporary society including racial and interfaith relations marriage and family homosexuality fighting AIDS peace in the Middle East and what is more he s never pulled his punches Rev Darryl Gray Imani Family Church Montreal Canada Arthur Roselle 248 840 6133 or 248 928 0999 fax Copyright C 2005 U S Newswire Source Citation Moon Time to Beat Swords into Plowshares News Conference TODAY at 11 a m CDT in Illinois US Newswire 24 Sept 2005