Zenit: S. Korea invites BXVI for a visit

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**South Korea Invites Pope to Visit
**SEOUL, South Korea, MAY 1, 2005 (Zenit.org).- An official delegate of South Korea invited Benedict XVI to visit the Asian country, an invitation the new Pope responded to with a warm smile, reported Fides news agency.

After the Mass at the April 24 inauguration of the pontificate, South Korea’s minister of culture and tourism, Roberto Chung Dong-chae, greeted the Pope personally and congratulated him on behalf of President Roh Moo-hyum and the nation.

The minister invited the Holy Father to visit South Korea assuring him “this is the desire of the Church in Korea and all the people.”

News of the Pope’s election also reached North Korea, despite strict control on information and limited religious freedom, reported Fides.

The small Catholic Association of North Korea, which is controlled by the government and has no resident priest, sent a message of congratulations and affection to Benedict XVI: “We offer warmest congratulations to His Holiness Benedict XVI, in the grace of God and profound faith of the Catholic Church. We are confident that as Supreme Pontiff he will promote love, peace and justice.”
 
The good news just keeps on coming. I am happy and astonished. Yay!
 
“The Passion” did extremely well in South Korea.

Article from the Catholic Encyclopedia on “Corea”:

*In a manner perhaps unique in the annals of the Church, the Faith was introduced there without preaching and before any missionaries had penetrated the country.

The educated people, more eager for new knowledge the more their country was jealously closed, procured through the annual embassy to Peking all the books possible upon science, literature, etc. Some Christian books fell into their hands, and, the grace of God aiding, they recognized the truth. One of them, Ni-seung-houn, undertook in 1784 the journey to Peking and was baptized there, under the name of Peter. Upon his return he baptized his companions, who, like himself, were men of learning and high position.

That their faith was firm, events proved. In 1791 Paul Youn and Jacques Kouen sealed their belief with their blood for having refused to offer sacrifice upon the occasion of the death of their relatives . . .*

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