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was built in Pyongyang by the North Korean government in 1988 and is operated by the Korean Catholic Association. It has no priests and no bishop, but Mass is celebrated there on major feasts by South Korean priests, following a 2015 agreement between the Korean Catholic Association and the
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was an important Christian center: one-sixth of its population of about 300,000 people were Christian converts. The population of the Pyongyang diocese as of 1943 was 3,650,623, all ethnic
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The Korean Catholic Association (the state-run church) was set up on 30 June 1988. Samuel Chang Jae-on has been its president since its establishment. The association published a
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government prohibited the proselytization of Christianity. Some Catholics were executed during the early nineteenth century, but the restrictive law was not well enforced.
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has operated in North Korea, running hospitals and other humanitarian projects. "Proselytism" is strictly forbidden, with customs seizing religious texts upon entry.
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retains a community of several hundred adherents who practice under the supervision of the state-established Korean Catholic Association (KCA) rather than the
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A large number of Christians lived in the northern half of the peninsula where Confucian influence was not as strong as in the south. Before 1948,
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of the Church have remained vacant since Christian persecutions in the late 1940s. The most prominent congregation is that of
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has largely displaced Catholic faith, and full services are provided only to people with a Catholic family background.
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in 2018. In 2022, Pope Francis expressed interest in visiting North Korea, if invited by the North Korean government.
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in Beijing, had been already brought to Korea from China in the seventeenth century. Scholars of the
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Interview of an Official Of The Catholic Church In Pyongyang North Korea (english sub)
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In 2016, the KCA released a fiery communique concerning then-South Korean
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lay Catholic movement in the peninsula. However, the writings of the
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in Tokwon 덕원, North Korea (Territorial Abbacy of Tŏkwon 덕원)
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on 18 August 2014, during a 4-day visit to South Korea by
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in Pyongyang, North Korea (Diocese of Pyong-yang 평양)
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school. Largely because converts refused to perform
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