Catholic influencer Paul Kim’s son dies aged five after contracting severe case of the flu

Catholic influencer Paul J. Kim has announced the shocking death of his five-year-old son.

Kim’s son Micah died on New Year’s Eve, following an 11 day hospitalization after he contracted a severe case of the flu, which triggered sepsis and seizures. Micah was later placed on life support.

Kim shared the heartbreaking news of Micah’s death in two emotional videos to his 346,000 Instagram followers on January 1, saying: ‘after fighting 11 long hard days, [Micah] went home to the house of our father.

‘We are so proud of him. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart as his dad, on behalf of my family, for all the ways you guys prayed and lifted us up during this time. This incredibly difficult, impossible time for our family. It’s been the hardest thing I’ve ever been through in my life and it continues to be.

‘As much as this time I just want to have privacy and have time to mourn with my family I felt like I owed all of you an update, just out of gratitude. Micah is already in Heaven at work, seriously, so many testimonies, so many ways in which God is using the light in my five-year-old to truly save souls and change the world. 

‘For those two weeks we were fighting long and hard, we were consulting legal, health, ethical teams even outside the hospital. 

Catholic influencer Paul J. Kim has announced the shocking death of his five-year-old son 

Kim’s son Micah died on New Year’s Eve, following an 11 day hospitalization after he contracted a severe case of the flu, which triggered sepsis and seizures. Micah was later placed on life support

‘Just to make sure we weren’t leaving any stone unturned. In many ways we were fighting for Micah to buy him as much time as possible, until he passed. As a father, that is my duty I was called to do that. Even if in God’s ultimate will it wasn’t meant for him to recover.

He also wrote: “The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” Job 1:21

‘Micah Joseph is beginning the new year basking in the never ending glory, love, and peace of God. 

‘Micah has been very busy already, as I see the Lord using him and sending him on missions to bring millions of people closer to God. We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses (Heb 12:1) that my son is now a part of. I couldn’t be a prouder father. 

‘This reality gives me great joy and hope in the midst of sorrow. Our hearts are broken; but we trust in the Lord. Please pray for my family and me as we learn how to live by faith and not by sight.

‘Thank you for all the love, prayers, and compassion that a countless number of you have showed us. May God truly bless you. Your prayers for Micah were answered, but in a different way than what we had all hoped for. God healed and welcomed him into eternal life. He is where we all want to be.

‘Micah Joseph Kim, pray for us.

Kim first revealed Micah’s health battle on December 21, writing his son was ‘having a medical emergency right now and headed to the hospital in an ambulance.’ 

He had been asking his followers to send prayers and hopes of a miracle to his son as he battled for his life – and the influencer had regularly posted videos of Micah in hospital during his treatment. 

He previously revealed that Micah’s scans had shown ‘brain activity is not present’ and that his son needed a ‘miracle to survive.’ 

Kim shared the heartbreaking news of Micah’s death in two emotional videos to his 346,000 Instagram followers on January 1, saying: ‘after fighting 11 long hard days, [Micah] went home to the house of our father – seen with Micah, his wife and his five siblings in November 2025

Kim had been asking his followers to send prayers and hopes of a miracle to his son as he battled for his life – and the influencer had regularly posted videos of Micah in hospital during his treatment.

On December 27, Kim said: ‘They did an MRI scan of his brain and they are saying it is so severely damaged that there is no medical possibility, in their opinion, that he can recover.

‘So here is what we are up against right now. We are up against the reality that at this point God must intervene. Our hearts are absolutely broken but we are not done fighting until the Lord says otherwise.’

Gwen Stefani has shown her support for Kim by commenting ‘praying for you’ on one of his posts.