Voice of the Martyrs Korea

CHINA: PASTOR SHEN SHAOCHUN RELEASED AFTER MORE THAN 6 YEARS IN PRISON

CHINA: PASTOR SHEN SHAOCHUN RELEASED AFTER MORE THAN 6 YEARS IN PRISON

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 ...

VOICE OF THE MARTYRS KOREA HOSTS “MINISTRY TRAINING PARTIES” FOR NORTH KOREAN DEFECTORS OVER CHINESE NEW YEAR

VOICE OF THE MARTYRS KOREA HOSTS “MINISTRY TRAINING PARTIES” FOR NORTH KOREAN DEFECTORS OVER CHINESE NEW YEAR

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 ...

CONGO: A CHRISTIAN “PARADISE” DESTROYED BY ISLAMISTS SLOWLY RETURNS TO LIFE

CONGO: A CHRISTIAN “PARADISE” DESTROYED BY ISLAMISTS SLOWLY RETURNS TO LIFE

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 ...

CHINA: OFFICIAL DECLARES CHRISTIANITY “A GREAT HARM TO THE CHINESE NATION”

CHINA: OFFICIAL DECLARES CHRISTIANITY “A GREAT HARM TO THE CHINESE NATION”

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 ...

VIETNAM: RURAL CHRISTIANS ARE USED TO DENIAL OF MEDICAL SERVICE DUE TO THEIR FAITH, BUT THIS FAMILY EXPERIENCED A MIRACLE

VIETNAM: RURAL CHRISTIANS ARE USED TO DENIAL OF MEDICAL SERVICE DUE TO THEIR FAITH, BUT THIS FAMILY EXPERIENCED A MIRACLE

Christians in rural Vietnam are accustomed to denial of medical service due to their faith, but a Christian couple there recently experienced a miracle after praying for help when their child was unable to receive life-saving treatment from their local hospital for a heart ailment. “Dong*, who grew up in a Christian home, and his ...

NK OFFICIALS ACCIDENTALLY PRESERVE RECORD OF UNDERGROUND CHRISTIAN EVANGELISTS

NK OFFICIALS ACCIDENTALLY PRESERVE RECORD OF UNDERGROUND CHRISTIAN EVANGELISTS

The story of two underground North Korean Christians captured while evangelizing North Korean soldiers was documented in a military training video obtained by Korean broadcaster KBS this month. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, the video is one of several North Korean government videos that have emerged over the ...

LIVE JOHN ROSS BIBLE MUSICAL DRAMA TELLS STORY OF BIBLE’S ARRIVAL IN CHOSUN

LIVE JOHN ROSS BIBLE MUSICAL DRAMA TELLS STORY OF BIBLE’S ARRIVAL IN CHOSUN

A cast of North Korean defector mission students and Voice of the Martyrs Korea staff recently performed an original musical drama at Samsung Church in Seoul, recounting the story of the translation and transmission of the Bible to Korea through Scottish missionary John Ross and his Korean co-workers. The “John Ross Bible Historical Drama”, written ...

VOMK to send Christmas Care Packages to Persecuted Christian Children in 10 Countries

VOMK to send Christmas Care Packages to Persecuted Christian Children in 10 Countries

Voice of the Martyrs Korea today announced plans to send Christmas Care Packages containing children’s Bibles, school supplies, toys, clothing, and hygiene items to Christian children in nine countries where their families are facing persecution due to their faith. “Last year our VOMK supporters made it possible for us to send more than 850 Christmas ...