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by bcadmin | Jun 9, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, Korea, Korean Catholics, Korean War, News, North Korea, saints and martyrs, South Korea | 0 |
Bishops in South Korea have moved ahead to pursue the canonization of 81 Catholics, including priests, religious and laypeople who were martyred by communist forces during the Korean War.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 17, 2022 | Anti-Christian persecution, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, Korean Catholics, Korean War, News, North Korea, South Korea | 0 |
One of South Korea’s most senior clergymen says he believes the Catholic Church in communist North Korea is growing, although Catholics live in hiding and endure persecution.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 4, 2022 | Associated Press, Japan, News, North Korea, Pope Francis, Vatican | 0 |
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida met with Pope Francis and top Vatican officials in talks about the need for “a world free of nuclear weapons,” the Vatican said Wednesday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 4, 2021 | lead, News, North Korea, Papal travel, peace, Pope Francis, South Korea, Vatican | 0 |
After South Korean President Moon Jae-in invited Pope Francis to visit North Korea last week, a prominent archbishop indicated that the Vatican is working to foster conditions in which a papal visit to the Asian nation is possible.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 4, 2021 | lead, News, North Korea, Papal travel, peace, Pope Francis, South Korea, Vatican | 0 |
After South Korean President Moon Jae-in invited Pope Francis to visit North Korea last week, a prominent archbishop indicated that the Vatican is working to foster conditions in which a papal visit to the Asian nation is possible.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 1, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Korea, Moon Jae-in, Narendra Modi, News, North Korea, Papal travel, Pope Francis, South Korea, Vatican | 0 |
In Rome for the G-20 summit, the leaders of South Korea and India also visited Pope Francis, and both of them had ideas for future papal travel.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 30, 2021 | Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia, Catholic News Service, China, Global church, News, North Korea, Nuclear arms treaty, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Nuclear weapons, Russia, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops | 0 |
It isn’t just the Pentagon taking note of hypersonic weapons development and recent testing reportedly undertaken by China, Russia and North Korea.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 29, 2021 | Associated Press, Church in Asia, Korea, Korean Catholics, Moon Jae-in, News, North Korea, Papal travel, Pope Francis, South Korea | 0 |
South Korean President Moon Jae-in gave Pope Francis a statue of a cross made with barbed wire from the demilitarized zone separating the Koreas and told him that a papal visit to the North would help create “momentum for peace” on the peninsula.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 28, 2021 | China, Featured, Hypersonic weapons, News, North Korea, Pentagon, Russia, U.S. & World News | 0 |
It isn’t just the Pentagon taking note of hypersonic weapons development and recent testing reportedly undertaken by China, Russia and North Korea.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 9, 2021 | Archbishop Lazarus You Heung-sik, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, News, North Korea, Papal travel, South Korea | 0 |
The prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Clergy said that while a papal visit to North Korea seems very unlikely, it could be just the outside intervention needed to overcome the stalemate dividing the Korean Peninsula.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 8, 2021 | News, North Korea, South Korea, U.S. & World News, Vatican Congregation for Clergy | 0 |
The South Korean archbishop who was recently appointed prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Clergy said that while a papal visit to North Korea seems very unlikely, it could be just the outside intervention needed to overcome the stalemate dividing the Korean Peninsula.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 28, 2021 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in Asia, College of Cardinals, Korean Catholics, News, North Korea, Obituary, South Korea | 0 |
South Korean Cardinal Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk, retired archbishop of Seoul, died April 27 at the age of 89.
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