Apricot flowers began to bloom at Tongdo Temple in South Gyeongsang on Wednesday, signaling the arrival of spring at one of Korea's most revered Buddhist sites. The blossoms quickly drew the ...

But the foot and vehicle traffic were sparse in the area on a recent weekday, a reflection of the dwindling church membership in South Korea. Even the Cheongshim Peace World Center, where mass ...

and most of them fled to the South. North Korea revived religions in 1988 with building the Changchung Catholic Church in Pyongyang without any resident priest. Also it claims some 3,000 Catholics, ...