All posts tagged "religion"

  • Buddhists from South and North Korea pose for a picture at Shingye Temple on Mount Kumgang along the North's east coast on Oct. 15, 2015, after a service for reconciliation and a peaceful unification of the two Koreas. (Yonhap file photo)
    Religious leaders of two Koreas to gather in N. Korea next month

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Religious leaders in South Korea will visit North Korea next month to hold a joint event for peace with their counterparts in the communist country, a religious group said Friday. Some 150 men from...

    • Posted October 23, 2015
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  • FILE - In this file photo taken July 16, 2014, a man stands near the razed remains of a Catholic church in a village in Pingyang county of Wenzhou in eastern China's Zhejiang province. The Chinese province where authorities have forcibly removed hundreds of rooftop crosses from Protestant and Catholic churches has proposed a ban on any further placement of the religious symbol atop sanctuaries. (AP Photo/Didi Tang, File)
    Chinese province to ban rooftop Christian crosses

    BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese province where authorities have forcibly removed hundreds of rooftop crosses from skylines of cities and towns has proposed a ban on any further placement of the religious symbol atop sanctuaries at both...

    • Posted May 8, 2015
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  • Leading monks of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism hold a conference at the Korean Culture Training Institute in Gongju, central South Korea, on Jan. 28, 2015. (Yonhap)
    S. Korea’s religious population on decline

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — South Korea’s religious population dropped in 2014 from 10 years earlier mainly due to a fall in the number of Buddhists and religious youths, a poll showed Thursday. According to the survey on 1,500...

    • Posted February 12, 2015
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