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In North Korea under the communist regime, Christianity is officially suppressed, and unofficial estimates by South Korean Church officials place the number of
Catholics there at only 5,000. The North Korean Catholic Church, ecclesiastically united with South Korea, is composed of the two dioceses of
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In 1899, "the Sinch'uk
Rebellion, a Confucian-led and -organised popular uprising", made a "most barbarous massacre" of from 500 to 600 victims. It was in reaction to promises of tax exemptions by lay-assistants and desecration of "spirit-shrines" by Catholics, after the arrival of two French priests
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Catholic Church in South Korea has seen significant growth in recent years, increasing its membership from 7.9% of the population to 11% over the past twenty years. At the end of 2017 there were 5,813,770 Catholics in South Korea – 11.0% of the population. In 2017, the Church grew by 1.3%, with
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Koreans practice no religion, that about 22% are Buddhists, and that 29.2% are Christians with 11.1% being Catholics and 18% being Protestants, meaning that Christianity is the largest religion.
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accepted an invitation to visit South Korea in August 2014. The four-day visit (14–18 August) culminated with a Papal Mass at
Myeongdong Cathedral, the seat of the Archdiocese of Seoul on 18 August. During a mass on 16 August, the Pope
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Christian name of Peter. He later returned to Korea carrying religious texts, and baptized many fellow countrymen. The Church in Korea continued to grow without formal missionary priests.
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2190:"Statistics of the Catholic Church in Korea, 1997"
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1643:Christian Korean slaves
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3082:Christianity in Asia
2521:Diocese of P’yŏngyang
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2085:Kaijian Tang (2015).
2057:. Tuttle Publishing.
2049:Daniel Tudor (2012).
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1937:Korean Catholic Bible
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260:Matthias Ri Iong-hoon
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2495:Archdiocese of Seoul
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1806:Diocese of Uijeongbu
1788:Archdiocese of Seoul
1758:124 Korean Catholic
1727:outside Europe, the
1717:Diocese of Pyongyang
1709:military ordinariate
960:United Arab Emirates
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2501:Diocese of Chunchon
2459:Province of Gwangju
1868:Province of Gwangju
1861:Diocese of Cheongju
1812:Diocese of Chunchon
1746:Pope Francis' visit
1670:ancestral "worship"
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1242:Antigua and Barbuda
2516:Diocese of Incheon
2511:Diocese of Hamhŭng
2506:Diocese of Daejeon
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2257:The New York Times
2234:www.ncregister.com
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1794:Diocese of Incheon
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2035:978-0-89581-892-8
2008:978-0-226-46708-5
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1880:Diocese of Jeonju
1849:Diocese of Andong
1831:Province of Daegu
1782:Province of Seoul
1777:Dioceses of Korea
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1681:Pope John Paul II
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