The apparent lifting of tension between the two Koreas has prompted religious groups to begin resumption of inter-Korean exchanges.

A leading member of South Korea's largest Buddhist order Jogye who just visited North Korea said Sunday he agreed with the North's Korean Buddhist Federation to hold a joint ceremony on Mount Geumgang.

About four-thousand Buddhists from South Korea will visit Singye Temple on Mount Geumgang three times next month.

Some three-hundred South Korean Christians will go to the North in late June for a joint service at a North Korean church. The service's organizers will resume inter-Korean contact to plan the event.

The Catholic Church of South Korea will continue sending humanitarian aid to the North, including ingredients to make vitamins. The assistance will go to some three million children in Pyongyang and North Hwanghae Province around late next month.