A Church-sponsored farmers’ group is promoting organic farming as an eco-friendly remedy to the food shortage caused by the climate crisis in the Korean peninsula. The Catholic Farmers Association (CFA) has developed an ‘environmental conservation-type sustainable agriculture’ and consumption method they call ‘life agriculture’, the Gwangju Catholic Peace Broadcasting Company reported. The term ‘life agriculture’ Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Korea’
Catholic bishops criticise Fukushima clean-up plans
Thursday, February 11th, 2021
Japan and Korea’s Catholic bishops are decrying the Japanese government’s plans to clean-up Fukushima by releasing millions of litres of radioactive water into the sea. “We oppose the release of water containing the radioactive substance tritium into the ocean after purifying the contaminated water from Tepco’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant,” they said this week Read more
World looking to religious leaders for leadership
Monday, September 4th, 2017
When Pope Francis and the Korean Council of Religious Leaders met in the Vatican on Saturday, he told them the world was looking for leadership from religious leaders. “…the world is looking to us; it asks us to work together and with all men and women of good will,” Francis said. The representatives came from Read more
Major religions organise festival to tear down religious barriers
Tuesday, October 4th, 2016Major religions gathered recently in Korea. Representatives from Korea’s four major religions organized a religious festival aimed at tearing down the walls between them. The World Religious Peace Committee organized the 2016 World Religion Culture Festival at Jeonju and other sites. The committee comprised of representatives from Buddhist, Catholic, Protestant and Won Buddhist traditions. Won Read more
Pope’s press conference on ‘plane from Korea
Friday, August 22nd, 2014
America provides below the full transcript of the pope’s press conference. The translation was made by Gerard O’Connell, its Vatican correspondent, who travelled on the plane with the pope. This is not an official translation. Q. During the visit to Korea, you reached out to the families of the Sewol ferry disaster and consoled them. Read more
Pope travelling in tiny box Kia car stuns Koreans
Tuesday, August 19th, 2014
On arriving in Korea, Pope Francis amazed onlookers and a huge television audience by getting into an unassuming, small car. This was in nation where VIPs are rarely seen in anything other than expensive, luxury cars. After his arrival on August 14, the Pope left the airport in a compact black Kia that many South Read more
Pope flies over China and sends message to President Xi
Friday, August 15th, 2014As he flew over China’s airspace on his way to Korea, Pope Francis sent a telegram to President Xi Jinping. Soon after crossing into Chinese airspace on August 14, the Pope dispatched the message which read: “I extend the best wishes to your excellency and your fellow citizens, and I invoke the divine blessings of Read more
Pope to highlight global focus in South Korea
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
(RNS) Pope Francis departs next week (Aug. 14) on a five-day trip to South Korea, his first to Asia and the start of an important new papal focus on the region. In January, Francis will return to visit Sri Lanka and the Philippines, and a trip to Japan — where the pope wanted to go Read more
Francis’s exhortation best-selling document since Vatican II
Tuesday, March 18th, 2014
An apostolic exhortation by Pope Francis is the best-selling papal document in Britain since the Second Vatican Council. More than 25,000 copies of Evangelii Gaudium have been sold since December. This is the highest figure for any Vatican document since Unitatis Redintegratio, the Vatican II Decree on Ecumenism sold 85,000 copies in Britain. Sales are Read more
Christchurch Korean demolition expert refused communion
Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
A Christchurch demolition engineer, Eugene Chang, has been refused communion at his Korean Catholic church after being accused of being a North Korean sympathiser and spy. He has had to step down from the board of trustees of the Korean school after parents refused to send their children while he was involved and been shunned by his Read more