For Western Catholics who sometimes despair of keeping the faith in a secularized world, or passing it on to their children, Fr. Paul Hwang might offer a bit of perspective: Try it in North Korea ...

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

North Korea’s regime-approved Catholic church has issued a fiery screed against South Korea’s president, describing her and her supporters as “satanic hordes” and “villains worse than ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...