NO CHURCH IN NORTH KOREA
City Priest’s Work In South The Christian Church had been completely obliterated in North Korea, and there had been no known church activity there since the beginning of the Korean war, said a former Christchurch man. Father Hayward. “I do not see any hope of re-establishing the Church in North Korea while communism exists there,” he said.
Father Hayward, who has been a parish priest in South Korea for 20 years, is on holiday in Christchurch before returning to Korea at the end of next month. He is one of three New Zealanders working in Korea, the others being Father O’Connor, also of Christchurch, and Father Cooper, of Wellington. Educated at St. Bede's College. Father Hayward joined the Society of St. Columban in 1931 after leaving school, studied in Australia and Ireland. and was ordained in Ireland in December. 1938. At the end of 1939 he went to Korea.
Apart from a five-year break after his internment and repatriation.to New Zealand during the war in 1942, Father Hayward has worked in Korea in various parishes. He was there for the duration of the Korean war.
Father Hayward's time in Korea has been taken up with general parish work mostly in the Chun Chon and Hoeng Song districts in South Korea.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30113, 23 April 1963, Page 7
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