The Olivetan Benedictine Sisters of Busan community responds to needs that arise within the Church in Korea, serving within 12 of its dioceses.
More than 1,000 clergy have joined the campaign against the government’s construction project on four major rivers in South Korea.
(South Korea’s) Yoido Full Gospel is the mega-est of megachurches. (Melanie Kirkpatrick, Wall Street Journal)
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)
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.
South Korea’s Constitutional Court has ruled that the death penalty is constitutional, dashing Church hopes of an early repeal of the law.
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.
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)
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)
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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