Shincheonji regarding submitting the list of congregations

Shincheonji regarding submitting 

the list of congregations

The Center for Disease Control and Gyeonggi-do province visited the office of General Assembly of Shincheonji on 25th of Feb. and the developer took the data directly from the server. Also, the search command query statement was checked. The Center for Disease Control took the file including the list of student and children of church council (1,680 people) and other congregations (195,644 people) out of 212,324 congregants in Korea.

On 26th, the list of congregants in overseas was also provided under the same conditions. (Overseas congregations student and childhood of church council 205 people and other congregants 33,076 people, total 33,281 people) On 25th of Feb, Gyeonggi-do took the data of 1) list of congregants in Korea who has residence address in Gyeonggi-do 2) congregants who attended worship service on 9th and 16th of Feb. in Daegu 3) congregants who attended worship service on 16th of Feb. at Gwacheon church. 

On 27th of Feb., the primary offer list was 33,582 people. Among them, 1,074 contact information which had no contact information was additionally offered. Most of them were students and children and their parent's contact information was checked. Gyeonggi-do also developer has checked the data on server and confirmed the search command query statement. When the list is sent from the Center of Disease Control to each local government, it was provided on address basis. Shincheonji church does not categorize congregants by tribes and district churches not by address.

So, when a local government requests a list of congregants, it differs from the data compared to the list submitted to the Center for Disease Control. Also, the address recorded on the register may differ from actual address where the congregants currently live. Afterwards, to prevent such confusion, the entire lists which shows the list of tribe, district churches and department was resubmitted to the Center for Disease Control. 

At the request of the Center for Disease Control, on 28th of Feb., the list of trainees (total 65,127 including 54,176 in Korea and 10,951 in oversea) was submitted. If there is no contact number and address, the name and contact information of the evangelist in charge was submitted. In addition, The list including attendees in Daegu‧Gyeongbuk province and Gwangju church which is requested by local governments was provided in real time. 

On 5th of Mar., Central Defense Response Headquarters of the Center for Disease Control identified the collective infection route. In order to check if it matches compared to the submitted data since there was suspicion raised on omission or discordance on the list, Forensic analysts of Supreme Prosecutors' Office participated in administrative investigation of the General Assembly Headquarters and secured a list of all congregants and trainees, present condition of churches and facilities, list of attendees for each worship service from Jan. to Feb. and attendance materials for trainee center at Shincheonji church. 

Since prevention and management of infectious diseases is directly related to the health of the people, it is a very important issue which is linked to social anxiety caused by fear of infection. 

Shincheonji church is allowing thorough investigation and diagnosis in accordance with the guidelines of the health authorities. Also, according to the results of diagnosis and epidemiological investigation, Shincheonji church actively cooperate to minimize the possibility of spreading to the community sincerely fulfilling hospitalization and self-treatment obligations.