South Korea's religious circle congratulated Pope Leo XIV on Friday, following his election as the new leader of the Roman ...

South Korea’s 6 million Catholics—many of whom remember Pope Francis’ 2014 visit—are praying for a successor who is close to ...

By some measures, the world’s most religious countries are mostly in the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, sub-Saharan ...

Belief in an afterlife, God and spirits in nature is widespread globally. Older adults are more likely than younger adults to ...

One such story is Hyeseong Kim, a South Korean infielder whose path from the KBO League to MLB has drawn notice and respect. The arrival of a renowned international star to Chavez Ravine is not an ...

How It Changed the World’, on the ancient monastery-university that nurtured scholars who contributed to Buddhist philosophy ...

The Korean Church Media Association issued a statement Tuesday (April 29) expressing deep concern over new Chinese ...

SEOUL -- South Korea's economy contracted in the first quarter of this year, as exports dipped and a monthslong political crisis weighed on consumption, according to central bank data released ...

“We’ve had kids (from) as far as South Korea come to be baptized in our baptismal font ... Thank you for visiting RNS and reading our independent news about religion. At a time like this, when the ...

South Korea’s former President Moon Jae-in has been indicted on bribery charges, prosecutors have said. Moon, who led South Korea from 2017 to 2022 under the banner of the centre-left Democratic ...

For American audiences, the Korean War is often called “the Forgotten War.” But in South Korean cinema, it has never been forgotten. South Korean filmmakers have repeatedly revisited the war ...

April 22 (UPI) --The U.S. Supreme Court will rule on whether parents have the right to opt out their kids from school curriculum involving LGBTQ-related books. On Tuesday, the justices will begin ...