Saturday, August 22, 2009

Korean churches fill pews as community grows

A fan-shaped baptismal font lies beneath a prominent chandelier, the centerpiece to a new worship center where priests hope to further expand one of the nation's largest Korean Catholic congregations.

St. Thomas Korean Catholic Center of Anaheim plan to dedicate a spacious $10 million church on Saturday to make room for a community that has grown thanks to a surge in immigration to Orange County and a steady stream of converts who came to the faith after settling here.

From 2000 to 2007, Orange County's Korean population grew nearly 50 percent to about 83,000, outpacing the community's growth in California and the country, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.

A number of the county's Korean Protestant churches have also been on the rise.
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