SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Church organizations are reluctant to penalize pastors who have committed sexual crimes, a civic group has claimed. The Korean Christian Alliance for Church Reform said that among 80 pastors who were convicted of sexual crimes between 2013 and 2022, only one of them has been penalized by church organizations. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Around one-third of the sexual violence crimes occurring at churches last year were committed by pastors in charge, a civic group said Friday. The Christian Center Against Sexual Violence said that there were 45 reports of sexual violence crimes occurring at churches, missionary groups and theological universities last year. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Roughly two thirds of South Koreans do not trust the South Korean Protestant Church or its pastors, a recent study has revealed. The Christian Ethics Movement of Korea conducted a survey of 1,000 citizens, 63.9 percent of whom said they don’t trust the South Korean Protestant Church. Only 31.8 [...]