Catholic population growing in Sth Korea [CNAU]

[Catholic_Press]

Jun 13, '13 6:00 am
Recent statistics indicate that the Catholic population in South Korea has increased over the past year. Last month, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea released a publication entitled Statistics of the Catholic Church in Korea 2011, reports the Catholic News Agency.http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/cathnews/RSS/~4/tERRSG2OQ3w

More…

 

[BroomWagon]

related to this, I didn’t want to make a whole thread on this topic, however:

“At least 10,000 Catholics live their faith in secret in North Korea”

This is according to Fr. Lee Eun-hyung, General Secretary of the Catholic “Committee for the Reconciliation of the Korean People”, who spoke to Aid to the Church in Need
vatican insider staff
rome

“We suspect that after the long period of persecution there are still about 10,000 people who will remember in their hearts their Catholic faith.” But “I find it difficult to believe that there is an organised underground Church in North Korea,” Fr. Lee Eun-hyung, the General Secretary of the Catholic “Committee for the Reconciliation of the Korean People”, said in an interview with Aid to the Church in Need (the foundation that supports pastoral action in areas where Catholics suffer persecution).