SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's latest COVID-19 outbreak has triggered a public backlash against conservative Christian churches for defying government orders ...

Catholic corruption and sex abuse allegations have made global headlines for years. Now a new film shines a spotlight on scandals at South Korea’s vast and politically powerful Protestant churches.

They pale in comparison, however, to the largest mega-church the world: South Korea's Yoido Full Gospel Church has more than 830,000 members.

South Korea’s Newsis News Agency reported that Patient No. 31 had not visited the hospital or attended the funeral, but she did use a public bathhouse while in Cheongdo.

South Korea, in fact, is home to 15 megachurches with an adult attendance of more than 10,000 people on a given Sunday. 1 This includes the largest church in the world, the Yoido Full Gospel Church, ...

The fringe Christian mega church is accused by some critics of being a cult. It is common to hide your membership of Shincheonji Church as they are not a popular sect in South Korea, says the BBC ...

Seoul (AsiaNews/Agencies) – The Korean Presbyterian Church (PCK-TongHap) today issued an order approving the father-to-son (pictured) succession in one of its mega-church affiliates, a move that ...

The church has 400 pastors in South Korea and 500 missionaries abroad. Cho’s family was hit by multiple scandals in the last decade, resulting in his conviction in 2017 for breach of trust and ...

Pope Francis landed in South Korea on Aug. 14, ... although the primacy of evangelical mega-churches appears to have waned from an apex in the mid-90s. (Other South Koreans are Buddhists.) ...