The EAEC Activity from July to September 2025

Enhancing Capability: EAEC Volunteer Workshop at Yongmun

The EAEC recently conducted a two-day workshop for its dedicated volunteers. The event was held on July 7 and 8 at the Yongmun Training Center.

The EAEC has been supported by devoted volunteers starting from donations to organizing various programs for supporters, translating foreign language books into Korean and making a manual for those who are interested in mission or evangelization and spirituality of martyrdom.

Academy Zoom Discusses Japanese Shrine Worship

The 6th Zoom meeting of the academy was successfully held on July 27, focusing on a critical and timely issue: “Japanese Shrine Worship and the Korean Church (Mission, Martyrdom, and the Vatican).” The discussion was expertly led by Dr. Hwang Kyung-hoon.

The academy zoom call has been dealing with main and current issues happening in East Asia to which the Church should respond. Its membership consists of not only scholars but pastors and lay church workers from Korea, Japan, and Taiwan at the moment.

Seonggyo Yoji (聖敎要旨) Meeting at EAEC

Seongggyo Yoji experts, senior Fr. Lee Seong-bae from the Archdiocese of Daegu, Fr. Kim Hak-ryeol from the Diocese of Suwon, and Professor So Soon-tae meeting at EAEC on Aug 29.  The Seonggyo Yoji is the first indigenously produced Catholic catechetical text in Korea, serving not merely as a doctrinal summary but as a significant work that articulates the essence of faith in the language of Joseon scholars.