Jane Tomaszewski was thinking about becoming a Catholic when she learned an unusual fact about herself. She’s the direct ...

Mourners offer a memorial prayer at an altar for the late Pope Francis at the Peace Hall near the Martyrs Mountain Shrine, a ...

SEOUL, April 21 (Yonhap) -- Archbishop Peter Chung Soon-taick of Seoul wished Pope Francis, who died at the age 88 on Monday, ...

Acting President Han Duck-soo mourned the death of Pope Francis Tuesday, paying respects at an altar set up at Myeongdong ...

Between 1866 and 1886, about 9,000 Catholics, half of the total Catholic population of Korea at the time, were brutally murdered during the Byeongin Persecution. The martyrs included nine of 12 French ...

Religious leaders in South Korea praised the late Pope Francis, who died in Rome on Monday at the age of 88, for speaking out ...

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 ...