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Church grows as South Korea's population shrinks

The number of baptized Catholics in the country rose by 0.2% in 2022.

Luke Coppen
Apr 26, 2023
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The number of Catholics in South Korea increased slightly in 2022 as the country’s overall population declined.

The Shrine of Solmoe, the birthplace of the first Korean Catholic priest St. Andrew Kim Taegon. Korea.net / Korean Culture and Information Service (Jeon Han) via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 2.0).

According to new statistics published April 25 by the Cat…

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