A pastor in China who previously served a seven-year prison sentence for his ministry activity on the China/Myanmar border, is now hospitalized, unable to sleep at night or stand during the day. That’s the report from persecution watchdog Voice of the Martyrs Korea and its American partner ministry, China Aid. Pastor John Cao, who is ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley and CEO Pastor Eric Foley delivered a 5,000+ signature petition to the Russian Embassy in Seoul today calling for the immediate release of Missionary Park Tae Yeon. The Foleys addressed the media across the street from the Embassy before entering the Embassy. “Missionary Park faithfully ...
Eritrean underground Christians have a new daily radio broadcast. They also operate an impressive program for helping Christian ex-prisoners start businesses. Eritreans imprisoned for their faith are winning converts by sharing the aid they receive with their non-Christian fellow prisoners. Even among members of the government-sanctioned Orthodox Church, state security officers grumble that as many ...
Eighteen Chinese Christians from Beijing’s Zion Church have been held at the Beihai Detention Center in Guangxi Province since October 2025 while they await trial. Now the attorneys representing them are reportedly facing pressure from authorities as well. That’s the word from Voice of the Martyrs Korea and its US-based partner China Aid, who have been ...
Churches in Russia are bracing for what may be one of the largest changes in the country’s religious life since the collapse of the Soviet Union. A bill set to come before Russia’s official legislature, the Duma, in June proposes to ban worship services as well as prayer, religious meetings, and evangelistic activities in houses, ...
A Korean missionary being held in Khabarovsk, Russia now faces a maximum of 17 years in prison on a total of three immigration-related charges. Last week, investigators filed two new charges against Missionary Park Tae-Yeon and were granted a one-month extension to continue their investigation, which has so far lasted two months. The initial court ...
Typically, churches and mission agencies regard ‘caring for refugees’ and ‘planting churches’ as two entirely different categories of mission work. But in an innovative program carried out by Voice of the Martyrs Korea and its sister mission Voice of the Martyrs Poland, eleven pastors who were forced to flee Islamic jihadist attacks in northern Burkina ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea today announced the release of the new book, The Gospel, by CEO Pastor Eric Foley and Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley. The book is a compilation of the Foley couple’s lectures at the organization’s six-month Underground Seminary training program. “Today when Christians use the word ‘gospel’, they use it to refer ...
A Korean missionary imprisoned in Khabarovsk on immigration-related charges was moved from prison to house arrest after agreeing to remain there until after her trial, but witnesses say she was forcibly removed from her home the next day by masked law enforcement agents who took her to a detention center for foreigners. An online petition ...
China’s two government-run Christian associations published a new “Code of Conduct for Clergy” in January. The Code includes four criteria for the selection and evaluation of pastors, with “political loyalty” listed as the highest ethical value. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, the new code of conduct is more a ...
