Korean parish raises funds for Salesian nuns in Mongolia

A parish in the South Korean capital Seoul has created a fund to help improve education initiatives by the Catholic Church in Mongolia.  Daech2-dong Catholic Church of  Seoul Archdiocese donated 50 million won (US$45,000) to Peace Makers, a social welfare arm of the Catholic Education Foundation, on Aug. 11 to support ongoing work in Mongolia.   Peace Maker will send the funds to Korean Salesian nuns working in the Mongolian education ministry. The money will be used to repair and expand school buildings run by the Salesian nuns and to provide student scholarships.   Currently, the nuns are running an elementary school with 40 students and a kindergarten that has 135 children attending.

The Catholic Church in Mongolia does not have any diocese, but the entire country comes under the jurisdiction of the Prefecture Apostolic of  Ulaanbataar,  headed by Filipino Scheut Missionary Bishop Wenceslao Padilla.  According to the Vatican’s Fides news agency there are about 1,000 faithful in Mongolia’s 3 parishes, which is remarkable, as the Church has only been functioning in the country since 1992.  (Source: UCAN)