On November 3rd and 10th, an estimated 100,000 church congregations worldwide will participate in the World Evangelical Association’s International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church. Participating churches will show a short film created by award-winning producer John Grooters in partnership with Voice of the Martyrs Korea. The film tells the story of one of ...
On October 17th, Middle Eastern religions expert Doctor David Pinault joined Voice of the Martyrs Korea at a press conference about the increasing persecution against Egypt’s Coptic Christians. At the conference, Dr. Pinault explained that all Copts are raised to be Christian martyrs, something which has enabled the church to endure more than 1,000 years ...
When Dr. Foley and I founded Voice of the Martyrs Korea, we were blessed to know nearly nothing about North Korea. The reason I regard that as a blessing is that what was "known" about North Korea at that time came from the news media, international aid agencies, South Korean missionaries, visiting academics, political think ...
When Pauline Ayyad’s husband Rami Ayyad, the owner of the only Christian bookstore in Gaza, was martyred in 2007, the only thought in her mind was revenge. But today she is teaching the widows of other Christian martyrs in Gaza to forgive their husbands’ killers and pray for their salvation, as she herself has learned ...
The number one challenge facing the church in China is not cross demolition or church raids. It is the full-scale effort on the part of the Chinese Communist Party to prevent the children of Christians from becoming believers themselves. That is why Voice of the Martyrs Korea is joining China Aid in announcing today a ...
According to persecution ministry Voice of the Martyrs Korea, Hmong village leaders recently tortured a Hmong Christian in an attempt to get him and his wife to renounce their new Christian faith. After the couple refused to abandon their faith in Christ, the villagers hung the man upside down over a fire of spicy peppers. ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea has begun a campaign to open 5,000 Sunday Schools in China in the next twelve months, in partnership with its sister NGO China Aid. The campaign, called “Sunday School in a Box”, assembles the leading legal children’s Bible in China, a compact video player, and a comprehensive curriculum of digital ...
Here's an English language translation of the press release we sent to Korean Christian media in the wake of the starvation of the North Korean defector and her son here in Seoul last month. Many are calling for increased government welfare programs for North Korean defectors in light of the deaths. But we at VOMK ...
(Kunming, Yunnan—Aug. 19, 2019) The mother of Chinese Pastor John Cao received word that her son is being held in Kunming Prison of Yunnan Province, located in the capital of Yunnan. Voice of the Martyrs Korea, which has been organizing volunteers to write letters of encouragement to Pastor Cao at his previous prison is intensifying ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea today rejected calls for increased government aid for North Korean defectors and instead issued a challenge to churches and North Korean defector Christians themselves to substantially increase their home visitation of North Korean defectors. The challenge comes in the wake of the death due to starvation of a North Korean ...
