Cardinal Lazzaro You Heung-sik, prefect of Dicastery for the Clergy, and Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin celebrate Mass on Dec. 11, 2023, to mark the 60th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Holy See and the Republ… […]
World Youth Day pilgrims in Panama City from the Archdiocese of Seoul. / Jonah McKeown/CNA.
Rome Newsroom, Nov 23, 2023 / 07:45 am (CNA).
The archbishop of Seoul has said that he wants to invite young North Koreans to the Catholic Church’s next… […]
The flag of North Korea. / Katherine Welles / Shutterstock.
Rome Newsroom, Nov 3, 2021 / 07:00 am (CNA).
A prisoner held in a cell in North Korea for two months noticed a distinctive pattern of behavior among some of the fellow detainees who cal… […]
South Korean President Moon Jae-in presents the cross to Pope Francis at the Vatican, Oct. 29, 2021. / Vatican Media.
Vatican City, Oct 29, 2021 / 09:00 am (CNA).
Pope Francis received a cross made from barbed wire from the demilitarized zone th… […]
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Holy See Secretary of State. / Bohumil Petrik/CNA
Rome Newsroom, Sep 2, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).
The Vatican Secretary of State said this week that the Holy See supports cooperation over confrontation in efforts to achieve… […]
North Korean flags in Pyongyang. / John Pavelka via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).
Rome Newsroom, Jul 7, 2021 / 12:00 pm (CNA).
Pope Francis could visit Pyongyang, according to the director of South Korea’s National Intelligence Service, who said that he w… […]
CNA Staff, Mar 19, 2021 / 02:01 pm (CNA).- Catholics in the US are showing more awareness of the problems of Christian persecution worldwide, the pastoral charity Aid to the Church in Need has said.
“It is heartening that, compared to a ye… […]
CNA Staff, Jan 13, 2021 / 01:27 pm (CNA).- For the twentieth year in a row, North Korea tops the list of countries where Christians face oppression, according to a group that reports on global […]
When Pakistan became an independent nation in 1947, religious minorities – including Christians, Hindus, and Sikhs – accounted for 23 percent of the population. They now account for less than 5 percent. With a population […]
The proportion of South Koreans who are Roman Catholic has surpassed 10 percent—high for the region, especially considering that people with no religious affiliation account for 46 percent of the total population and are a […]
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