Latest Breaking News On - Father kapaun guild - Page 3 : comparemela.com
Hawaii Mass is send-off for remains of war-hero priest to return to Kansas
catholicreview.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from catholicreview.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Diocese of Wichita, Kansas, set to welcome home remains of Father Kapaun
catholicnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from catholicnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
South Korea honors US priest with highest military honor
Father Emil Kapaun, a candidate for sainthood, was a US Army chaplain in World War II and the Korean War
Updated: July 29, 2021 05:45 AM GMT
Trending
Father Emil Kapaun was a priest of the Diocese of Wichita in the US who was an army chaplain and died in a prisoner-of-war camp during the Korean War. (Photo: Wikipedia)
Father Emil Kapaun, an American priest who laid down his life as a military chaplain during the Korean War, has received South Korea s highest military decoration posthumously.
Ray Kapaun, Father Kapaun s nephew, accepted the Order of Military Merit on behalf his uncle, a candidate for sainthood, from President Moon Jae-in in Seoul on July 27.
South Korea honors Father Kapaun with country s highest military honor
cruxnow.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cruxnow.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Kansas Catholics recall priest’s wartime ministry, heroism in POW camp
Father Emil Joseph Kapaun, a Kansas priest and a military chaplain, who died May 23, 1951, in a North Korean prisoner of war camp, is pictured circa 1943. A candidate for sainthood, he died ministering to prisoners of war during the Korean War. (CNS photo/U.S. Army courtesy The Catholic Advance)
By Christopher M. Riggs • Catholic News Service • Posted March 11, 2021
WICHITA, Kan. (CNS) William Hansen kept his silence for over 50 years about being one of the POWs who buried Father Emil Kapaun’s body after the priest died May 23, 1951.
In 2005, Hansen was in his doctor’s office at a VA Hospital in Florida when he read an article about the U.S. Army chaplain who died a hero in a North Korean POW camp in Pyongyang.