More than 100,000 North Koreans working in China, Russia, Mongolia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East have been unable to return home due to North Korea’s COVID lockdown, according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea. The ministry’s Representative, Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, says that has created a “window of opportunity” for evangelism which Christian ministries ...
Chinese house church networks are currently distributing 3,000 “Sunday Schools in a Box” to Christian children and families across China, according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley. “A ‘Sunday School in a Box’ is a digital Children’s Bible, a video player, and a comprehensive curriculum packaged together so that an adult of any education level can use it to teach ...
Speaking to North Korean defector pastors at the Bukkichong North Korean Defector Pastors Association summer retreat on August 10, Voice of the Martyrs Korea CEO Pastor Eric Foley urged the association members to become proficient in North Korean underground church planting methods and to apply these in both North and South Korea, instead of using ...
Citing safety concerns, officials in Qushan Island, Zhejiang Province forcibly removed crosses from several fishing boats on July 28. They also erased “Emmanuel” slogans painted on boats and informed fishermen that if they refused to permit the cross removals they would be denied fishing permits and access to gasoline. “The population of Qushan Island is around 70,000. One-third of ...
As heavy fighting in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray continues into its ninth month, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on human rights in Eritrea has “sounded the alarm” calling for prompt UN investigation of what he is calling the “horror stories” of Eritreans fleeing the destruction of two refugee camps in the region. But amidst ...
Wenshui County Public Security Bureau Agents arrested a homeschooling father for “illegal holding of materials promoting terrorism and extremism”. The July 20th arrest is the latest in a series of troubles with Chinese authorities for Zhao Weikai, a 35-year-old Christian from Taiyuan Xuncheng Reformed Church whose refusal to stop homeschooling his three children led to ...
Gunmen suspected to be Fulani militants broke through a wall and overcame security guards at Bethel Baptist boarding school in Damishi Kaduna at 2am on Monday morning July 5, kidnapping more than 140 students. School officials say most of the students at the school were kidnapped, but some managed to escape. At last count, 28 ...
North Korean defector Ms. KMS (name withheld for security reasons) recalls her first exposure to Christianity, which occurred while she was still living in North Korea. "In 2002 I was arrested and brought to North Korean police,” she says. “Many people were interrogated at the same time. A young woman next to me was closing ...
The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, a Nigerian human rights watchdog group, called for the governments of South Korea and other democratic countries to respond to what it calls “red signals” of Christian genocide in Eastern Nigeria. “The group, called Intersociety for short, is seeking to draw the attention of South Korea and the ...
Rocio Pino and her husband James had already gone to bed for the night on March 6, 2011 when they heard an unexpected knock on the front door of their home. Though they lived in one of Colombia’s dangerous “Red Zones”—areas controlled by the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC—the Pinos were known ...
