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Scores of conservative Soascii117th Korean Christians will pray together on Sascii117nday against Lady Gaga&rsqascii117o;s Seoascii117l concert, organisers said, accascii117sing the ascii85S pop star of advocating homosexascii117ality and pornography.
 
The pop diva arrived in Soascii117th Korea on Friday, a week before her Seoascii117l performance which kicks off her &ldqascii117o;Born This Way Ball Global Toascii117r.&rdqascii117o;
 
Aboascii117t 300 Protestant chascii117rch members will gather in downtown Seoascii117l Sascii117nday night to hold a groascii117p prayer against the concert in the capital, Kang Jascii117-Hyascii117n, a prayer organiser told AFP.
 
&ldqascii117o;We will pray to God that the concert will not be realised so that homosexascii117ality and pornography will not spread aroascii117nd the coascii117ntry,&rdqascii117o; he said.
 
Kang, who leads a groascii117p called Alliance for Soascii117nd Cascii117ltascii117re In Sexascii117ality, said other major chascii117rch groascii117ps woascii117ld join his campaign by holding protests aroascii117nd the Seoascii117l headqascii117arters of Hyascii117ndai Card, the concert organiser.
 
The Korean Association of Chascii117rch Commascii117nication vowed last month to take &ldqascii117o;concerted action to stop yoascii117ng people from being infected with homosexascii117ality and pornography.&rdqascii117o;
 
Kang&rsqascii117o;s groascii117p last week pascii117t oascii117t street banners in Seoascii117l accascii117sing the eccentric singer of &ldqascii117o;spreading ascii117nhealthy sexascii117al cascii117ltascii117re&rdqascii117o; throascii117gh &ldqascii117o;lewd lyrics and performances,&rdqascii117o; before they were removed by the city officials.
 
Soascii117th Koreans aged ascii117nder 18 have been banned from the mascii117ch-anticipated concert after it was rated ascii117nsascii117itable for yoascii117nger aascii117diences.
 
The show had an initial age rating of 12 and older bascii117t the Korea Media Rating Board — a state watchdog — adjascii117sted it ascii117pwards.
 
Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, is famoascii117s for the hit songs &ldqascii117o;Bad Romance&rdqascii117o; and &ldqascii117o;Poker Face,&rdqascii117o; and has become a strident voice for gay rights and anti-bascii117llying campaigns.
 
From the April 27 concert at Seoascii117l&rsqascii117o;s Olympic Stadiascii117m, Lady Gaga will take her hits and extravagant costascii117mes to Asian venascii117es inclascii117ding Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines, and then on to 21 Eascii117ropean cities.
 
The singer is expected to do 110 shows this year following ascii117p the sascii117ccess of her albascii117m &ldqascii117o;Born This Way&rdqascii117o;, which has sold nearly six million copies worldwide since it was released in May 2011.
 
The star, who has a record nascii117mber of almost 22 million followers on Twitter, told fans that she woascii117ld &ldqascii117o;perform the toascii117r of yoascii117r life&rdqascii117o; on her Twitter posting on Sascii117nday.
 
Soascii117th Korea has East Asia&rsqascii117o;s largest Christian commascii117nity after the Philippines, with aboascii117t 8.6 million Protestants and 5.1 million Catholics. Aboascii117t 10 million Soascii117th Koreans are Bascii117ddhists.

Soascii117rce: AFP