Voice of the Martyrs Korea has learned that a Moscow court fined a Russian pastor in June because scripture portions published by Mission Eurasia were found at his church ten days after Mission Eurasia was declared to be an “undesirable organization”. The court ordered the scriptures—178 copies of the New Testament and 74 copies of ...
The trial of Korean Missionary Park Tae-Yeon resumes this week in Khabarovsk. According to persecution watchdog Voice of the Martyrs Korea, a verdict was originally expected in the case by August 10, but the judge’s rescheduling of the trial dates could mean no verdict until September 24. Missionary Park, who was detained in January one week ...
In what persecution watchdog organizations are calling a long-planned coordinated operation, authorities in Yueyang City, Hunan Province, China, carried out a large-scale raid on multiple meeting locations of Rock Bible Church, a prominent house church, on Saturday evening July 11. Pastor Huang Lei as he ended detention in April 2024 (file photo) Those arrested included ...
A historic Christian compound in Tehran, which was established in 1876 and is home to Iran's oldest Protestant church building, is facing possible confiscation by the country's government. But according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, the action is a “futile symbolic move” which, while unfairly punishing the small number ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea has learned that Child Evangelism Fellowship-USA (CEF) has been added to the Russian Federation’s list of undesirable organizations. The ruling comes as CEF Korea Missionary Park Tae Yeon faces a possible 17-year sentence in a trial set to begin July 28 in Khabarovsk, according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea. ...
Persecution watchdog Voice of the Martyrs Korea is calling for prayers this week for a 67-year-old pastor in Occupied Ukraine who is facing deportation from his native city and country because of his ministry activities. “Pastor Vladimir Pavlovich Rytikov was born in Krasnodon in 1959, in what was then the Voroshilovgrad Region of Soviet Ukraine,” says Voice ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea is reporting what they call a “massive upsurge” in Christian persecution across China in June. “In recent weeks, authorities literally in the north, south, east, and west of China have detained, questioned, or investigated house church believers and ministry workers, reflecting a significant increase in pressure on unregistered Christian congregations,” says Voice ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea, the persecution watchdog ministry which has been advocating for Korean missionary Park Tae Yeon since her arrest in Khabarovsk, Russia in January, has learned that the prosecutor will claim that she “forced” children who stayed with her to pray. The ministry says it believes a psychiatrist may be called to ...
A Russian Shahed drone struck the building of The Light of the Gospel Church in Balakliia in eastern Ukraine in the early afternoon on Saturday May 23. Despite severe fire damage, none of the occupants of the building at that time, including the church’s pastor, Alexander Salfetnikov, nor the small group he was preparing for ...
한국 순교자의 소리Voice of the Martyrs Korea와 미국에 본부를 둔 동역 기관 차이나 에이드China Aid에 따르면, 중국 청두시 당국은 6월 14일 예배 중이던 이른비언약교회(ERCC)에 대규모 급습을 감행해 장로 2명과 남성 교인 4명, 그리고 어린이들을 포함한 다수의 예배 참석자들을 연행했다. 한국 순교자의 소리 현숙 폴리Hyun Sook Foley 대표는 “이것은 진정 다윗과 골리앗의 싸움이며, 이번 싸움에서도 그와 ...
