Twenty New priests and Thirty Deacons Will be Ordained in Seoul

Agenzia Fides ^ | 1/27/16

[marshmallow]

Seoul (Agenzia Fides) - The Church in Korea, which thrives in vocations to priesthood, will be enriched with 20 new priests: Cardinal Andrew Yeom Soo-jung, Archbishop of Seoul, will ordain 20 priests on February 5. Given the large numbers of faithful who are expected for the event, the celebration will be held in the big hall of the Olympic Park in Seoul.

As reported to Fides in a note by the local Church, the Archdiocese of Seoul celebrates an ordination Mass every year, with an average of 30 new priests ordained. Over the past 20 years, ordinations in Seoul have always been higher than twenty priests a year. The data of the last three years are: 21 new priests in 2013; 36 in 2014; 25 in 2015.

The ordination Mass takes its theme from Cardinal Yeom's pastoral Letter, just published, entitled "Teachings of the Church: the compass of the new evangelization", while the verse reference chosen is "How beautiful is your love" (The Song of Songs 4:10).

[Shadow44]

Always found it interesting how fertile of a ground Korea was for Christianity. Some places like Japan have been the target of missionaries for centuries with minimal results.

[Salvation]

Outstanding!

[2ndDivisionVet]

Seoul has a large mosque built in the 1970's by the Saudis. I don't know what their attendance is like.

[Jess Kitting]

Always found it interesting how fertile of a ground Korea was for Christianity.

In Asia, (South) Korea is second to the Philippines in highest percentage of Christians.

[Shadow44]

Well, that goes without saying since it’s the only Christian majority country I’m aware of in Asia.

Interesting to see how places like Southeast Asia were colonized yet didn’t have much progress in conversion, yet the Philippines did, and Korea wasn’t even a Western colony.

Maybe there’s so social dynamic in their societies that made them more open to conversion.

[cloudmountain]

Always found it interesting how fertile of a ground Korea was for Christianity. Some places like Japan have been the target of missionaries for centuries with minimal results.

Americans had a long presence in South Korea, with the war.
Japan doesn't even have an ordinary religion like we have. They had "hero" worship--Shinto.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinto

Buddhism isn't a god-centered faith either, as the Buddha was Sidhartha Gautama, an Indian holy man. He INSISTED that he wasn't a god but the folks deified him anyway.