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August 2, 2017

Maryknoll priest honoured by Knights for ministry to sick in North Korea

Maryknoll Father Gerard Hammond, who has gone to North Korea more than 50 times since 1995, is pictured waiting to meet Pope Francis in Seoul Aug. 14, 2014. Fr. Hammond has been named the winner of the Gaudium et Spes Award from the Knights of Columbus.

-WASHINGTON – Maryknoll Father Gerard Hammond has been named the winner of the Gaudium et Spes Award from the Knights of Columbus for the 84-year-old priest's missionary work with tuberculosis patients in North Korea.

Published in International
August 24, 2014

U.S. missionary in North Korea a silent 'apostle of peace'

Maryknoll Father Gerard Hammond, a native of Philadelphia who has lived in South Korea since 1960, is pictured waiting to meet Pope Francis during the pope's meeting with the bishops of Korea in Seoul Aug. 14. Father Hammond said that since 1995 he has m ade 51 trips into North Korea to take humanitarian assistance.

SEOUL, South Korea - Since the end of the Korean War in 1953, no Catholic priest has resided in the North of this divided peninsula, where autonomous religious activity is effectively forbidden. And no enemy of the communist regime there is more detested or fiercely denounced than the United States.

Published in International