Founder of South Korea’s biggest church, Cho Yong-gi, dies

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Rev. Cho Yong-gi, whose founding of the biggest South Korean religion erstwhile symbolized a post-war maturation of Christianity successful the Asian state earlier that accomplishment was tainted by corruption and different scandals later, has died. He was 85. Seoul’s Yoido Full Gospel Church says Cho passed distant astatine a Seoul infirmary connected Tuesday. It says Cho had been treated determination since helium collapsed owed to cerebral hemorrhage successful July past year. Cho started his religion successful Seoul with 5 worshippers successful 1958. The religion says successful 1993, it had much than 700,000 members, making it the world’s biggest religion congregation according to Guinness Book of Records.