Top Vatican official, Archbishop Emilio Nappa, concelebrates Mass marking founding of the Korean Pontifical Mission Societies ...

The largest persecution in 1866 produced some 8,000 martyrs. The persecution officially ended ... Also it claims some 3,000 Catholics, but the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea officially sees no ...

The day's program concluded with a meeting with Catholic secondary school students ... and visited the Seosomun Martyrs' Shrine, the site where many early Korean Catholics were martyred, including the ...