Earlier this month Voice of the Martyrs Korea reported the removal of two church crosses in Wenzhou, China. But this week Voice of the Martyrs Korea is reporting a different kind of cross removal in that communist country. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, authorities in Hengyang, Hunan Province sentenced a street evangelist to ...
In a further crackdown on Christians, the government of Eritrea arrested 30 people that were attending a wedding ceremony held in the capital, Asmara, during the last week of June 2020. That brings the number of Christians arrested in Eritrea since last April to 45. “Not many people have even heard of the small country ...
In response to new government restrictions on church gatherings, Voice of the Martyrs Korea has made its award-winning feature film “Tortured for Christ” available for free online viewing at www.vomkorea.com/tfc. The movie is normally only available through specially arranged showings to whole churches, but according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, the ...
Samaru Madkami, a 16-year-old boy from Kendukuda village, Malkangiri district, Odisha, India, was crushed to death with stones on June 4, 2020. Voice of the Martyrs Korea is reporting that the boy was murdered by radical Hindu nationalists because of his faith in Christ. “SamaruMadkami was a teenager from a very poor background,” says Voice of ...
Authorities in China’s Fujian province raided more than a dozen homes of members of the Xingguang Church on June 11. The homes had been used as worship places for the church. The raid is the second on Xingguang Church in the past two months. Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley reports, ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea, an NGO which ministers to persecuted Christians worldwide, held a press conference today to unveil a plaque on its Martyrs Timeline commemorating “The Unknown Martyrs of Communism” and to officially release its new booklet, “Communism Is Not Dead”, an educational resource for Christians and churches. “Since 1921, an estimated 25 ...
Controversy surrounds the opening of the new Resurrection of Christ Church in Kubinka near Moscow. The cathedral, designed as the Armed Forces’ main church, is designed to hold 6,000 worshipers and features a military green color and missile-like towers. It was built at a cost of around 6 billion Rubles (roughly 100 billion Korean Won), ...
Bible distribution to North Koreans continues to be double that of the same period last year, according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley. The ministry credits the Coronavirus for the heightened interest of North Koreans, as well as for new avenues for distribution. “North Koreans are looking for hope in ...
On May 13, 2018, a terrorist attack on Surabaya Central Pentecostal Church killed 10 people and left one church member with burns over 85% of her body. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative Hyun Sook Foley, that church member, Fenny Suryawati, continues to recover and is now using her burn scars to share ...
A new outbreak of Coronavirus in Northeast China’s Jilin Province has led authorities there to restrict travel and institute additional control measures. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, the new measures make it nearly impossible for North Korean sex-trafficked women there to feed their families. “The biggest worry today for North ...
