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Religious Leaders Mourn Halloween Crush Victims

SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Religious leaders on Tuesday visited a mourning alter for those killed in the country’s worst crowd crush in history. The representatives of the country’s seven main religious orders paid tribute to the victims at a joint memorial altar set up at the public plaza in front of Seoul City [...]

Religious Leaders Urge Constitutional Court to Abolish Death Penalty

SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Leaders of seven religious orders in South Korea on Thursday urged the Constitutional Court to abolish the death penalty in their first joint opinion on the long-held dispute as the court was to hold an open hearing on the punishment. In the written opinion submitted to the court a [...]