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The persecution of Christians in North Korea is an ongoing and systematic human rights violation in North Korea. [3] [4] [5] According to multiple resolutions which have been passed by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, the North Korean government considers religious activities political crimes, [6] because they could challenge the personality cult of Kim Il Sung and his family.
In 1777, Christian literature obtained from Jesuits in China led educated Korean Christians to study the faith. [6] At this point some Koreans started to be converted to Catholicism. When a Chinese priest managed to secretly enter the country a dozen years later, he found 4,000 Catholics, none of whom had ever seen a priest. [ 6 ]
The Catholic Persecution of 1801, also known as the Sinyu Persecution (신유박해), was a mass persecution of Korean Catholics ordered by Queen Jeongsun during King Sunjo of Joseon's reign. The government began to suppress Catholicism in the belief that it conflicted with the tenets of Confucianism .
He said smash persecution in Colombia, Pakistan, India, North Korea and Nigeria includes imprisonments, murders and sexual assaults. "Nigeria is the global hotspot," he said. "An average of 17 ...
Joseon royalty saw the new religion as a subversive influence and persecuted its earliest followers in Korea, culminating in the Catholic Persecution of 1866, in which 8,000 Catholics across the country were killed, including nine French missionary priests. Later in the 19th century, the opening of Korea to the outside world gradually brought ...
The Byeongin Persecution was a famous event even to Westerners, to the extent that British geographer Isabella Bird Bishop described Heungseon Daewongun in her book " Korea and Her Neighbors" as the person who made Joseon a nation of martyrs through the martyrdom of Christians . The persecution was occurred in four waves precipitated by ...
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]
In 1801, the Korean Catholic Church was subject to the first major repression by the government (the Sinyu Persecution) in which more than 300 people were killed. Yi was martyred by beheading on the 26th of the 2nd lunar month (April 8), 1801. This incident has come to be known as the Catholic Persecution of 1801.