Posts by: Editor-ru

VIETNAM: AUTHORITIES USING REGISTERED CHURCHES TO SUPPRESS UNREGISTERED ONES

VIETNAM: AUTHORITIES USING REGISTERED CHURCHES TO SUPPRESS UNREGISTERED ONES

Local authorities harassing members of unregistered churches is nothing new in Vietnam. But what is new is authorities using registered churches to do the harassing. “Churches in Vietnam have always hesitated to register with the government because it’s difficult to register, and then after they register, it’s difficult to comply with all the ongoing government ...

IRAQ: FIRST-EVER MODERN LANGUAGE FAMILY BIBLE TO BE PLACED IN EACH CHRISTIAN HOME ON THE NINEVAH PLAINS

IRAQ: FIRST-EVER MODERN LANGUAGE FAMILY BIBLE TO BE PLACED IN EACH CHRISTIAN HOME ON THE NINEVAH PLAINS

Voice of the Martyrs Korea announced today a plan to place copies of the first-ever modern Chaldean dialect Bible in 30,000 Christian homes in Northern Iraq, through a partnership with local Iraqi Christians and its sister mission, Voice of the Martyrs Australia. “This is more than a Bible distribution project,” says Voice of the Martyrs ...

RUSSIA: 15 EVANGELISTS DETAINED, LEADER FINED FOR EVANGELISM RALLY

RUSSIA: 15 EVANGELISTS DETAINED, LEADER FINED FOR EVANGELISM RALLY

15 evangelists were temporarily detained and questioned and the group’s leader fined for an evangelism rally in Bogoroditsk, 250 km south of Moscow, on June 9. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, the group, composed of unregistered Baptists from the surrounding regions of Tula, Smolensk and Tver and led ...

NORTH KOREANS WORKING ABROAD GIVE THANKS FOR “SCARY BOOK”

NORTH KOREANS WORKING ABROAD GIVE THANKS FOR “SCARY BOOK”

Voice of the Martyrs Korea, an NGO which serves persecuted Christians worldwide, released letters it received this week from North Koreans working abroad who received audio Bibles through the NGO’s distribution efforts. “The workers wrote that they previously regarded the Bible as ‘the most terrifying thing’, a ‘scary book’, and even an ‘evil thing’,” says ...

우크라이나: 러시아가 새로 장악한 지역에서 탄압받는 4개 교회

우크라이나: 러시아가 새로 장악한 지역에서 탄압받는 4개 교회

Four Protestant churches are currently experiencing harassment by officials in areas now under Russian control, Voice of the Martyrs Korea has confirmed. The organization also received reports of two pastors from the region who were recently detained and then released. “Three churches in the Donetsk Region--Central Baptist Church and the Church of Christ the Saviour ...

FIRST KNOWN CHINESE MARTYRS ON FOREIGN SOIL HONORED ON INTERNATIONAL MARTYRS DAY

FIRST KNOWN CHINESE MARTYRS ON FOREIGN SOIL HONORED ON INTERNATIONAL MARTYRS DAY

Voice of the Martyrs Korea, an NGO which serves persecuted Christians worldwide, unveiled a plaque on its Martyrs Timeline commemorating Chinese Christians Meng Lisi and Li Xinheng on the International Day of the Christian Martyr, Wednesday June 29. The plaque was unveiled at a press conference at its office in Seoul. Meng and Li had ...

UKRAINE: FORMER DRUG ADDICTS BECOME CHRIST’S “GREEN MARTYRS” IN WAR-TORN SEVERODONETSK

UKRAINE: FORMER DRUG ADDICTS BECOME CHRIST’S “GREEN MARTYRS” IN WAR-TORN SEVERODONETSK

A church composed of twelve former drug and alcohol addicts, led by a pastor who is himself a former addict, are being hailed as heroes for staying to evangelize and provide aid to Severodonetsk residents as the city came under increasing attack. Pastor Alexander Turgunov and his Church of the Transfiguration delivered food, diapers, clothes, ...

UKRAINE: CHRISTIANS IN MARIUPOL AND THE DONETSK REGION RISK THEIR SAFETY TO RECONNECT DURING WAR

UKRAINE: CHRISTIANS IN MARIUPOL AND THE DONETSK REGION RISK THEIR SAFETY TO RECONNECT DURING WAR

Khartsyzsk, a city in the Donetsk region, is only 130 kilometers from Mariupol. But for the past eight years, with the areas under separate control and travel between them tightly regulated, Christians in the two cities may as well have lived on opposite sides of the world. Now, as the battle lines and the control ...