The Chinese Communist Party included a Bible story in its official textbook on law and ethics. But according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, the details and meaning have been altered to support Communist ideology. In the altered version, Jesus proclaims himself to be a sinner and stones the woman ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea sent the Chinese Embassy in Seoul a copy of a letter originally written and signed by 439 Chinese pastors, with one addition: 28 pages of signatures from 4,400 Christians from Korea and around the world showing their support and concern for the pastors. The signatures were gathered through an online ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea is making its award-winning feature film “Tortured for Christ” available for free online viewing during Chuseok at www.vomkorea.com/tfc. “Tortured for Christ” tells the true story of VOM founder Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, as written in his international bestselling book, ‘Tortured for Christ’. The award-winning movie was filmed entirely in Romania, including inside one of the prisons ...
4,000 “Sunday Schools in a Box” have been distributed through Chinese house church networks to Christian children and families across China in 2020, according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley. “A ‘Sunday School in a Box’ is a Children’s Bible, a video player, and a digital curriculum packaged together so that an adult of any education level can use it to ...
Police in Odisha State, India claim that the June death by stoning of a 16-year old boy was caused not by his conversion to Christianity but by suspicions that the boy’s father, a pastor, was a sorcerer who allegedly caused the deaths of 16 villagers. The claim is the latest turn in a case that ...
Rapid growth of the church in one of the last remaining Communist countries, Laos, has caused Voice of the Martyrs Korea to join together with several Christian organizations to meet a request from local believers for 100,000 New Testaments within the next 9 months. “In 1994 there were 400 Christians in Laos, but today there are ...
A court in China’s Guangxi Autonomous Region has ruled it illegal for a Christian mother to homeschool her children. Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley reports that the ruling emphasized that children who follow a religion must be educated in the atheistic school system. According to Representative Foley, Fan Ruzhen began homeschooling her children ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea today announced a new shortwave radio broadcast into North Korea, to begin airing September 1. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, the new 30-minute broadcast will bring the ministry’s total number of daily broadcasts into North Korea to five. Four of the broadcasts are via short ...
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 ...
