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Christian Broadcasting System (South Korea)
CBS (Christian Broadcasting System) is a Protestant broadcaster and Korea's first privately owned broadcasting station. It began radio broadcasting on December 15, 1954. A board of trustees nominated by several denominations governs it, and it airs both missionary programming and general news and current affairs programming.
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- Far East Broadcasting Company (Korea)Institutions
The Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC) is an interdenominational Protestant missionary radio broadcaster in South Korea that went on the air in Incheon in 1956. It is known for domestic gospel broadcasting and for its "northern mission" broadcasts aimed at communist countries such as North Korea, China, and Russia.
- CGNTVInstitutions
CGN (Christian Global Network) is a Protestant mission broadcaster operated by the Onnuri Mission Foundation, an incorporated foundation established chiefly by Onnuri Church in Seoul, South Korea. It began broadcasting in 2005 as CGNTV. Its primary audiences are overseas missionaries and members of the Korean diaspora around the world.
- ChristianBible
A Christian is "one who belongs to Christ," a person who believes in and follows Jesus as the Christ. The word appears three times in the New Testament, in Acts and 1 Peter.
- Christian Wedding ServiceWorship & Rites
A Christian wedding service is a ceremony conducted as an act of worship in which a Christian man and woman make their marriage vows before God and receive a blessing upon their union. It is usually officiated by a pastor and may be held in a church or a wedding hall.
- Christian Council of KoreaInstitutions
The Christian Council of Korea (CCK; Korean abbreviation Hangichong) is an interdenominational body of Korean Protestant denominations founded in 1989 under the leadership of Rev. Han Kyung-chik and other senior conservative church leaders. It was long regarded as the representative organization of conservative Korean Protestantism, but after a series of schisms in the 2010s its major member denominations withdrew.
- Christian Ethics Movement of KoreaInstitutions
The Christian Ethics Movement of Korea (Giyunsil) is an interdenominational Christian civic organization founded in 1987 by Protestant scholars and intellectuals, including Son Bong-ho. It advocates ethical living among Christians and the restoration of the church's public trust.
- Christian Gospel MissionHeresies & Cults
The Christian Gospel Mission is a religious organization founded by Jung Myung-seok and widely known as JMS. Several Protestant denominations in South Korea have declared it heretical, and its founder has twice received final prison sentences for sex crimes against female members.
- Christian CounselingChristian Life
Christian counseling is counseling that helps individuals and families with psychological, relational, and spiritual difficulties from the perspective of the Christian faith and the Bible. The term encompasses both pastoral counseling by ministers and counseling by professional counselors.
- Christian BooksChristian Life
Christian books are works of Christian literature, other than the Bible itself, written to aid the life of faith. The category includes devotionals, collections of testimonies, biographies of people of faith, introductory works of theology, and sermon collections.
- Christian ZionismDoctrine & Theology
Christian Zionism is a school of thought and movement within Christianity that regards the return of the Jewish people to the land of Palestine and the founding of the State of Israel in 1948 as the fulfillment of biblical prophecy, and that supports the State of Israel for religious reasons.
- Christian LibertyDoctrine & Theology
Christian liberty is the Protestant teaching that those who believe in Christ have been set free from the dominion of sin, the condemnation of the law, and human ordinances without basis in Scripture, so that they may serve God and their neighbor in love.
- Christian PerfectionDoctrine & Theology
Christian perfection is the teaching that believers can attain, in this life, a state of wholly loving God and neighbor. Systematized by John Wesley, it is regarded as a distinctive feature of Methodist and Holiness theology.
- Christian SchoolHistory
A Christian school is a private school founded by a Christian body, such as a Protestant or Catholic organization, for the purposes of mission and education; such schools are often called mission schools. In Korea, Christian schools began with the schools opened by missionaries in the late nineteenth century.
- Christian Population of South KoreaHistory
The Christian population of South Korea is the number of people in South Korea who identify as Protestant or Catholic. Statistics Korea's Population and Housing Census has asked about religion every ten years since 1985, and in the 2015 census Protestantism became the country's largest religion for the first time.
- Christian Literature Society of KoreaInstitutions
The Christian Literature Society of Korea is a Protestant publishing house and interchurch ecumenical body that traces its origins to the Korean Religious Tract Society, founded in 1890 by missionaries in Korea. It is regarded as the oldest Protestant publisher in Korea.
- Christian Medical Fellowship KoreaInstitutions
Christian Medical Fellowship Korea (CMF) is an interdenominational Protestant faith movement of medical professionals, including physicians, dentists, and practitioners of Korean medicine, together with university students in medical fields. It began at a national student retreat in 1980 and was formally established under its Korean name, Hanguk Nugahoe (Korean Luke Society), in 1982.
- Christian Literature Center (CLC Korea)Institutions
The Christian Literature Center (CLC) is the Korean branch of CLC, an international literature mission organization founded in England in 1941. The Korean branch began operating in 1975 and is an incorporated association that publishes and distributes theological and devotional books.
- Christian EthicsDoctrine & Theology
Christian ethics is the field of theology that examines, in light of the Christian faith, what is right and how Christians ought to live as individuals and in society. It is also called the study of Christian ethics.
- Christian WorldviewDoctrine & Theology
The Christian worldview is a framework of thought, grounded in the teaching of the Bible, for interpreting the world, humanity, history, and culture and for viewing every area of life. It is commonly explained through the pattern of creation, fall, and redemption.