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According to the Christian organization Open Doors, North Korea persecutes Christians more than any other country in the world. [15]In a study of 117 North Koreans who had been affected by religious persecution which was conducted by the Korea Future Initiative, it was found that Christians made up about 80% of the people who were surveyed.
Other signs of the regime's changing attitude towards Christianity included holding the "International Seminar of Christians of the North and South for the Peace and Reunification of Korea" in Switzerland in 1988, allowing papal representatives to attend the opening of the Changchung Cathedral of Pyongyang in that same year, and sending two ...
In 2019, North Korea was ranked as the worst country in the world in terms of Christian persecution by international Catholic aid organization Aid to the Church in Need. [6] In 2023, the country was ranked as the worst place in the world to be a Christian by Open Doors. [7] In 2023, the country was scored zero out of 4 for religious freedom. [8]
The practice of Christianity in Korea is marginal in North Korea, but significant in South Korea, where it revolves around Protestantism and Catholicism, accounting for 8.6 million [1] [2] and 5.8 million [3] members, respectively.
The Church of the Life-Giving Trinity (Korean: 평양정백사원) is a Russian Orthodox church in Jongbaek-dong, Rangrang District in Pyongyang, North Korea. [1] It is the first and only Orthodox church in the country, and one of only a handful of Christian churches there overall.
The Korean Christian Federation is a Protestant body in North Korea founded in 1946. [1] The federation is based in the capital city Pyongyang. [2] The current secretary general is O Kyong-u. The federation has come to play an important role in international relations involving North Korea and religious organizations in South Korea and abroad.
Dioceses of Korea. The Catholic Church in North Korea retains a community of several hundred adherents who practice under the supervision of the state-established Korean Catholic Association (KCA) rather than the Catholic hierarchy. The dioceses of the Church have remained vacant since Christian persecutions in the late 1940s.
The Pyongyang Theological Seminary (also known the Pyongyang Theological Academy, [1] but commonly known simply as the Pyongyang Seminary [2]) is a Protestant theological seminary in Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea. It is run by the government-controlled Korean Christian Federation (KCF) and trains pastors and evangelists for it.