In a recent class at one of Voice of the Martyrs Korea’s discipleship training schools for North Korean defectors, Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, the ministry’s Representative, was teaching the students about Missionary Robert Jermain Thomas, one of the earliest Protestant missionaries to Korea who was martyred while attempting to sail up the Taedong River near ...

In separate cases in May, courts in Russia’s far northeast Chukotka Autonomous Okrug fined two Christians for personally distributing Bibles and Christian books, ruling that the distributions constituted illegal church recruitment and not personal evangelism. The two Christians, Ryshkov Mikhail Ivanovich from the easternmost Russian city of Anadyr and Kovtun Nikolai Alekseevich from the Arctic ...

Calling his martyrdom “one of the most dramatic and powerful witnesses for Christ in the 20th century”, Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley unveiled a commemorative plaque on the ministry’s Martyr’s Timeline for martyred Somali evangelist Abdiwelli Ahmed. Voice of the Martyrs Korea also released a free dramatized short video of ...

During the early morning hours of May 23, 2004, two Eritrean pastors were each arrested by Eritrean authorities for their roles in leading churches in “illegal” evangelical Christian denominations. June marks the beginning of the 19th year in prison for the pastors, Haile Nayzgi and Dr. Kiflu Gebremeskel. Christian persecution ministry Voice of the Martyrs ...

In 1882, Koreans successfully smuggled the first ever Korean language version of the scriptures—in the form of the Gospel of Luke they had just translated with Missionary John Ross—from Moukden, China (today’s Shenyang) inside of what is today North Korea. Now 140 years later, according to persecution ministry Voice of the Martyrs Korea, Koreans have ...

A Baptist pastor from Moscow who was carrying humanitarian aid to help brothers and sisters in the Luhansk region of Ukraine was arrested at a checkpoint and detained since April 21 but has now been released. According to persecution ministry Voice of the Martyrs Korea, authorities may have been intending to make an example out ...

Wang Xiaofei’s husband, Pastor Yang Xibo, leads Xunsiding Church, the largest house church in Xiamen, Fujian province. During the past three years, authorities have shut down the church building, secretly followed church members, destroyed private property, forced members to send their children to public schools, and fined Wang Xiaofei and her husband more than 100,000 ...

In its latest crackdown on Christians, Eritrean authorities this month arrested 103 young Christians who had gathered together at a location in the capital city of Asmara to record praise and worship videos to upload on social media. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea, the arrests bring to more than 500 the number of ...

More than 10,000 Christians in Burkina Faso have now been driven from their homes due to the violence of ISIS and al-Qaida. The believers are part of an estimated 2.3 million people displaced by jihadist attacks across West Africa. With the United Nations estimating 20% of the population of Burkina Faso now needing humanitarian aid, ...