Khartsyzsk, a city in the Donetsk region, is only 130 kilometers from Mariupol. But for the past eight years, with the areas under separate control and travel between them tightly regulated, Christians in the two cities may as well have lived on opposite sides of the world. Now, as the battle lines and the control ...

Zhang Qiang and Xiao Yue were no different than the thousands of other couples preparing for a wedding on Saturday, May 21, in China, except for one thing: They are members of Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu.   As a result, the weekend did not end with them being pronounced husband and wife but rather ...

Images of death and destruction continue to pour out of Mariupol, where the city council announced that they are bracing for the death by year’s end of 10,000 of the city’s remaining 170,000 residents, due to disease and unsafe living conditions. Yet today other images are also emerging from that besieged city: photos and video ...

Probably some of the youngest attendees who saw the old man seated in a chair at the front of their church sanctuary conducting the choir on Easter Sunday did not know who he was. And according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, that is exactly the way the old man ...

Prior to February 24, Viktor Polunin was the pastor of the Gospel of the Grace of God church in Kyiv. Now, Pastor Polunin and his wife are the Gospel of the Grace of God church in Kyiv.  “Before the outbreak of hostilities, Pastor Polunin’s church had about 70 people, and it was dynamic and growing,” ...

Authorities demolished part of their building, sent them the bill, and jailed a deacon who came to their aid, but the Baptist Church in Archangelsk, Russia is praising God for what they call a “glorious victory” as the deacon begins his second year in prison. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun ...

Olesia is a pastor’s wife. Normally she and her husband serve a church in a small town in western Ukraine. However, these days, nothing is normal for Ukrainians.   Olesia’s husband continues to live in the family’s home, helping refugees who pass through as they head out of the country. He hosts as many as he ...

Five Ukrainian Christians who cared for 200 people living in a church basement until a grenade hit their car were remembered by Mariupol residents at a memorial service earlier this month. Four of the men were buried in a shared grave in the courtyard of a church near the burned remains of a house where ...

Funeral services were held on March 12 at Spring of Life Church in the city of Kremenchuk for the man Voice of the Martyrs Korea is calling “Ukraine’s IT martyr”. 26-year-old Anatoliy Berezhny was struck from behind by Russian mortar fire on March 6 while assisting a woman and two children who were attempting to ...