Knowledge of the outside world opened the door to despair. Knowledge of God opened the door to hope. That is the conclusion Dr. Hyun Sook Foley draws regarding the current situation of North Koreans working abroad, based on letters released this week by her organization Voice of the Martyrs Korea, an NGO which serves persecuted ...
This December marked the first Christmas for Natalia Saveleva since the death of her husband, Sergei, in March. Sergei was one of five Ukrainian Christians who had been caring for 200 people living in a church basement in war-torn Mariupol since the start of the war in February. He and the other four were killed ...
Evangelical believers paid a “tax on faithfulness” in 2022, and that tax is increasing, according to persecution watchdog Voice of the Martyrs Korea. “Across the Russian Federation in 2022, basic Christian activities—gathering for worship, distributing Bibles and Christian literature, and personal evangelism—were investigated by Russian police and punished as crimes by Russian courts of law,” ...
After turning away from Christ in the early days of Kim Il Sung’s regime, a North Korean woman in China was led back to faith by a single Bible verse uttered by a mysterious voice that she alone heard. Rhee Soon-ja (name changed for security reasons) has vivid memories of her father reading the Bible ...
To Chinese authorities, Chen Wensheng is a troublemaker who was actually less trouble when he was just a drug addict on the street years ago. But to Chinese Christians, Chen Wensheng is a powerful street evangelist who even after 10 years refuses to stop preaching the gospel even though he has been arrested more than ...
"We are alive. We are fed. We have clothes. We are healthy." According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, that was the reply of one pastor in Russia-occupied Ukraine to her question, “What message would you like us to share with Christians in the outside world about your situation?” Representative ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea traveled to Thailand late last month to continue its persecution training for members of the embattled “Mayflower Church”—the congregation of the Shenzen Holy Reformed Church which fled China for Jeju Island in 2019 before relocating to Thailand this past August in their ongoing efforts to seek religious asylum. “The church ...
Announcing that the project had achieved all goals set for it in the eight months since first signing on the air, Voice of the Martyrs Korea today announced that it has renewed its annual broadcast signal lease and will continue its daily Christian shortwave radio broadcast into the Maldives Islands in 2023. “Should the Lord ...
핍박받는 전 세계 기독교인 형제자매를 지원하고 그들과 동역하는 순교자의 소리Voice of the Martyrs Korea는 2023년 탁상용 기도 달력을 제작하여, 수령을 희망하는 한국 교회 성도들에게 무료로 제공한다. 순교자의 소리는 한국 교회 성도들이 세계 곳곳에서 핍박받는 형제자매에 관하여 구체적으로 알고 그들을 위해 더 많이 기도할 수 있도록 이 기도 달력을 제작했다. 순교자의 소리 현숙 폴리Hyun Sook Foley ...
With an initial delivery of 100 packages containing emergency food rations and Bibles to children of Christians living in famine in the war-torn Tigray region of northern Ethiopia this week, Voice of the Martyrs Korea began its 2022 Christmas Care package distribution. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, the ...
