A Mission From God in North Korea - International Student Ministry

"Next year, the two trainee priests will open a Russian Orthodox church in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang -- the first in the isolated country now at the center of an international dispute over its nuclear weapons program." So opens the article in The Moscow Times, October 1, 2003 issue.....

".....Religion is controlled by the state in North Korea and worship banned outside the official Korean Union of Believers. The Orthodox Church has now been approved as an official religion, but proselytizing is strictly taboo. The priests' flock will consist largely of Russian Embassy staff. "Still," Prozorova said, "it's wonderful to think of those church bells ringing out over Pyongyang."

For the full article online see: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2003/10/01/015.html