According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea, a Christian pastor and his wife in Xi'an, China who were sentenced to seven years in prison for printing Christian books were kidnapped and tortured by authorities. The organization is reporting that the pastor has faced continuous extortion and violence from gangs since his arrival in prison. The ...
New regulations from China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs are scheduled to go into effect May 1. The so-called “Measures for the Suppression of Illegal Social Organizations” will give police even broader power in conducting on-site inspections while making it easier for citizens to report suspected organizations to the authorities. Experts expect the new regulations to ...
Two Christians in their 60s who were pardoned and released after a combined six years in prison on charges related to their leadership of house churches have been re-arrested. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea, Nasser Navard Gol-Tapeh and Joseph Shahbazian were both taken into custody by intelligence agents at their homes in the ...
Attacks from Islamic terror groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda and ISIS have been a regular part of life for residents across Burkina Faso’s north central region since 2015. According to the country’s National Emergency Response and Rehabilitation Council (CONASUR), more than 10% of the country’s population, or about 2 million people, are now displaced. According to ...
Three orphaned Christian sisters whose parents were beheaded by ISIS ten years ago are facing a new challenge: Syria’s longtime dictator has been overthrown, and while citizens are cautiously optimistic about their country’s future, Christians—especially in rural areas and especially women—are already facing harassment and demands to convert to Islam. Voice of the Martyrs Korea ...
In early December, Eritrean authorities raided a house where 27 secondary school students were gathered for prayer and worship. After being detained for several days at a police station, the students were transferred to Mai Serena prison near Asmara, which currently houses hundreds of prisoners. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea is reporting that Pastor Shen Shaochun was released from Xishuangbanna Prison in Yunnan Province at the end of 2024 after completing six years and three months of a seven-year sentence for allegedly organizing illegal border crossings into China from neighboring Myanmar. Voice of the Martyrs had conducted a global letter ...
127 North Korean defectors came to three “ministry training parties” hosted by Voice of the Martyrs Korea in Seoul, Daejeon, and Busan around the Chinese New Year holiday. As Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley explains, the events gave North Korean defectors the opportunity to do ministry rather than to be ...
A village once considered Congo’s “paradise on earth” because of work done there by Christian missionaries is slowly returning to normal after a series of bloody anti-Christian attacks carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a violent Islamist group, from 2019 to 2021. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook ...
Contents from a 2019 lecture by a Chinese official have come to light in which Christianity is called “a great harm to the Chinese nation.” Persecution watchdog Voice of the Martyrs Korea and its US-based partner ChinaAid say the comment reflects the Chinese Communist Party’s longstanding concerns about the ideological and national security impacts of ...
