The Olivetan Benedictine Sisters of Busan

The Olivetan Benedictine Sisters of Busan community responds to needs that arise within the Church in Korea, serving within 12 of its dioceses.

Clergy join hands to halt Korean rivers project

More than 1,000 clergy have joined the campaign against the government’s construction project on four major rivers in South Korea.

Neon crosses of the “Jerusalem of the East”

(South Korea’s) Yoido Full Gospel is the mega-est of megachurches. (Melanie Kirkpatrick, Wall Street Journal)

Daring scheme for raising Korean births

Unless Koreans have more kids, their nation could disappear. A dynamic gynaecologist has a plan to reverse the trend by applying the existing laws on abortion. (MercatorNet)

Korean Catholics proud of their Olympic champion

Catholics in Korea were overjoyed to see Stella Kim Yu-na make the sign of the cross during her Gold Medal performance at the Olympic figure skating competition on Feb. 23.

Church regrets Korean death penalty ruling

South Korea’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the death penalty is constitutional, dashing Church hopes of an early repeal of the law.

Former US Secretary of State Haig dead

Korean and Vietnam war veteran, Alexander M. Haig Jr., former US secretary of state and retired four-star general who served as a top adviser to three presidents, has died of complications from an infection. He was 85.

Cardinal Kim lives on in people’s hearts

A year after Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan’s death, many Koreans say they still miss him and want to carry out his wishes. (UCA News)

Celebrating the Lunar New Year in Korea

Today all of us living in Korea are one year older. It all comes with eating a bowl of rice-cake soup early in the morning of the Lunar New Year; start of the real New Year for Koreans. (Catholic American Eyes in Korea blog)

Ahn Jung-geun - South Korea marks a painful centenary

March 26, 1910. Lushun, northeast China. A mustachioed 30-year-old Korean nationalist, Catholic convert and self-styled resistance fighter waits silently in his prison cell. His Japanese guards keep close watch. Their prisoner is special. (Ronan Thomas, Asia Times)

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