Citing safety concerns, officials in Qushan Island, Zhejiang Province forcibly removed crosses from several fishing boats on July 28. They also erased “Emmanuel” slogans painted on boats and informed fishermen that if they refused to permit the cross removals they would be denied fishing permits and access to gasoline. “The population of Qushan Island is around 70,000. One-third of ...
As heavy fighting in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray continues into its ninth month, the UN’s Special Rapporteur on human rights in Eritrea has “sounded the alarm” calling for prompt UN investigation of what he is calling the “horror stories” of Eritreans fleeing the destruction of two refugee camps in the region. But amidst ...
Wenshui County Public Security Bureau Agents arrested a homeschooling father for “illegal holding of materials promoting terrorism and extremism”. The July 20th arrest is the latest in a series of troubles with Chinese authorities for Zhao Weikai, a 35-year-old Christian from Taiyuan Xuncheng Reformed Church whose refusal to stop homeschooling his three children led to ...
Gunmen suspected to be Fulani militants broke through a wall and overcame security guards at Bethel Baptist boarding school in Damishi Kaduna at 2am on Monday morning July 5, kidnapping more than 140 students. School officials say most of the students at the school were kidnapped, but some managed to escape. At last count, 28 ...
North Korean defector Ms. KMS (name withheld for security reasons) recalls her first exposure to Christianity, which occurred while she was still living in North Korea. "In 2002 I was arrested and brought to North Korean police,” she says. “Many people were interrogated at the same time. A young woman next to me was closing ...
The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, a Nigerian human rights watchdog group, called for the governments of South Korea and other democratic countries to respond to what it calls “red signals” of Christian genocide in Eastern Nigeria. “The group, called Intersociety for short, is seeking to draw the attention of South Korea and the ...
Rocio Pino and her husband James had already gone to bed for the night on March 6, 2011 when they heard an unexpected knock on the front door of their home. Though they lived in one of Colombia’s dangerous “Red Zones”—areas controlled by the Marxist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC—the Pinos were known ...
A pastor’s wife in Vietnam has led over 30 patients to Christ and shared the gospel with more than 100 while hospitalized to receive cancer treatment, according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea. “Nguyen Thanh and her husband have dedicated their lives to advancing God’s kingdom among remote villages throughout Vietnam,” says Voice of the ...
The building of Gaza’s only Protestant church sustained minor damage in the latest round of fighting between Israel and Hamas, but the one dozen remaining congregation members are continuing the church’s sizeable outreach ministries despite the risk, according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley. “The Lord is miraculously preserving a witness for himself in Gaza—that ...
Pastor Yang Hua of Living Stone Church in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province was transported from a local police station to the emergency room of a nearby hospital after being beaten by a government official during a May 23 interrogation regarding his travel plans, according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea. Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, representative of ...
