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The Catholic Church in South Korea has grown significantly in recent years, with membership rising from 7.9% to 11.3% of the population between 1997 and 2021, though its share of the overall population has remained steady since 2021. [1] [9] [10] At the end of 2017 there were 5,813,770 Catholics in South Korea – 11.0% of the population. [9]
Sorae Church, which was the first Protestant church in Korea, was established by Seo Sang-ryun on 16 May 1883. [6] Lee Soo-jung, one of the first Protestants in Korea, was baptized in Japan on 29 April 1883, and wrote an English article on the Missionary Review of the World to urge more American missionaries to enter Korea on 13 December 1883. [7]
A mudang holding a gut to placate the angry spirits of the dead.. With the division of Korea into two states in 1945, the communist north and the anti-communist south, the majority of the Korean Christian population that had been until then in the northern half of the peninsula, [12] fled to South Korea. [13]
There are about 40,000 followers of Islam in South Korea, most of the Muslims in South Korea are foreign migrant workers from South Asia, West Asia, Indonesia, and Malaysia to work in South Korea, and there are less than 30,000 local Korean Muslims. The largest mosque in South Korea is the Seoul Central Mosque, and there are also smaller ...
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.
There are no known official statistics of religions in North Korea. Officially, North Korea is an atheist state , although its constitution guarantees free exercise of religion, provided that religious practice does not introduce foreign forces, harm the state, or harm the existing social order.
Korean is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent. [a] [1] [3] It is the national language of both North Korea and South Korea.In the north, the language is known as Chosŏnŏ (North Korean: 조선어) and in the south, its known as Hangugeo (South Korean: 한국어).
Interfaith greetings (Indonesian: Salam Lintas Agama), sometimes referred as Bhinneka greetings (Indonesian: Salam Kebhinekaan), [1] are often used to open formal meetings in Indonesia. The phrases combine the greeting phrases of several or all major religions in Indonesia.