Eight decades after the partition of the Korean peninsula, the Catholic Church in South Korea remains one of the few actors ...

But by 1910 Japan colonized Korea. Korea was liberated in 1945 when the Allied Forces defeated Japan, but was soon divided into North and South Koreas. Catholics in the Communist North Korea were met ...

Columban missionary priest Daniel Kiback, who presided over the Holy Mass, said the martyred priests lived in Korea and gave ...

Former South Korean President Moon Jae-in, who is Catholic, has urged Francis to visit North Korea, saying a papal visit to Pyongyang would help build peace on the Korean peninsula. When he met ...

which has presided over North Korea with an iron fist for three generations. Mostly secret followers of the Catholic faith, they simply disappeared, Kim Eujin told DW. And a new report by a non ...