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

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

Pope Francis, best remembered by Koreans for his visit to the country in August 2014, died in Rome on Monday at the age of 88. He was the first pope to visit the Asian nation since Pope Saint John ...

Pope Francis mourned in S. Korea Mourners offer a memorial prayer at an altar for the late Pope Francis at the Peace Hall ...

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

The South Korean Catholic Church will send a three-member delegation to the Vatican for the funeral Mass of Pope Francis, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Korea (CBCK) said Tuesday. The delegation ...

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 ...

These include Chonjinam, the birthplace of the Korean Catholic Church, and the Mirinae Holy Shrine, where the tomb of the first Korean priest-martyr, Saint Priest Andrew Kim Tae-gon, is located, and ...

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 ...