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 ...
CHINA: MAPPING AND RECAPPING JUNES “MASSIVE UPSURGE” IN CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION CHINA: MAPPING AND RECAPPING JUNES “MASSIVE UPSURGE” IN CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION
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 ...
RUSSIA: PROSECUTOR TO CLAIM DETAINED KOREAN MISSIONARY “FORCED” CHILDREN TO PRAY
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 ...
RUSSIA BOMBS CHURCH BUILDING OF UKRAINIAN PASTOR IT PREVIOUSLY ARRESTED AND TORTURED
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 ...
중국 당국, 예배 중인 이른비언약교회 대규모 급습
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 ...
VIETNAMESE MOTORBIKE EVANGELIST MURDERED IN MARCH IS 2026 INTERNATIONAL MARTYRS DAY HONOREE
A Vietnamese motorbike evangelist who was beaten to death as he was returning from a gospel ministry trip this past March is the Voice of the Martyrs Korea International Martyrs Day honoree for 2026. The ministry honored Brother Phát* with a plaque on its Martyrs Timeline this week and released a video about the martyred Vietnamese Christian to commemorate this year’s International Martyr’s Day. The video, which is available for use by churches, ...
ERITREA: CHRISTIANS’ SPIRITS “UNBROKEN” AS CYCLE OF IMPRISONMENT AND RELEASE CONTINUES
An April release of 24 Christians has brought the number of Christian prisoners in the small North African nation of Eritrea to its lowest level in 20 years. But recent mass arrests at two separate churches last month, combined with the continued imprisonment of seven Christian leaders for more than 20 years, seem to show ...
CHINA: AUTHORITIES FORCIBLY DEMOLISH BUILDING OF PROMINENT WENZHOU CHURCH
Authorities forcibly demolished the historic Yayang Church Meeting House in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province in eastern China last month, according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea and its US-based partner China Aid. They say it’s the culmination of clashes between the church and authorities dating back to 2014. “Eyewitnesses confirmed that on or around May 19, heavy ...
KYRGYZSTAN: GOVERNMENT PERSECUTION SPREADS TO PROTESTANTS
Concerns have long been raised by persecution watchdog groups about the persecution of Non-Sunni Muslims and Jehovah’s Witnesses in the small Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan. But an April 19 visit by authorities to a Baptist church in the country’s capital is causing Voice of the Martyrs Korea to sound the alarm that persecution has ...
LETTERS OF ENCOURAGEMENT REQUESTED FOR KOREAN MISSIONARY DETAINED IN RUSSIA
Voice of the Martyrs Korea, the persecution watchdog ministry which has been advocating for Korean missionary Park Tae-Yeon since her arrest in Russia in January, is asking Christians in Korea and around the world to send letters of encouragement to the missionary at the detention center where she has now been held for four months. ...