Five Ukrainian Christians who cared for 200 people living in a church basement until a grenade hit their car were remembered by Mariupol residents at a memorial service earlier this month. Four of the men were buried in a shared grave in the courtyard of a church near the burned remains of a house where ...
Funeral services were held on March 12 at Spring of Life Church in the city of Kremenchuk for the man Voice of the Martyrs Korea is calling “Ukraine’s IT martyr”. 26-year-old Anatoliy Berezhny was struck from behind by Russian mortar fire on March 6 while assisting a woman and two children who were attempting to ...
A church leader for the Luhansk region and his small house church composed mainly of his wife and 19 children are bringing protection, food, and hope to a village in one of Ukraine’s most war-torn regions. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, they are also changing the way the ...
A call for national repentance from more than 400 Russian church and seminary leaders was posted on a small Russian Christian website, then quickly removed. A Russian lawyer instructed Russian churches via Facebook how to avoid trouble when they pray for peace during their worship services. A popular Russian pastor assured Russian Christians that private ...
“Now in the city there is a curfew,” says Vitaly, a 28-year-old Ukrainian church leader from a Baptist Church in Kiev, as he gathers together for the evening in a home with his coworkers, in a room with a small desk, a printer, paper, and scissors. “Some people are preparing ammunition and armor. Others might ...
As the Russian invasion drags on, some Christians in Ukraine are literally taking their churches underground in an effort to survive missile and artillery attacks, while other Christians have little choice but to seek supplies and safety as temporary refugees in neighboring countries like Poland and Moldova. But according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea’s ...
2022 marks the 140-year anniversary of the release of the first portion of scripture ever translated into the Korean language: Missionary John Ross’ Gospel of Luke, first published in 1882 and smuggled into Korea from Moukden, China (today’s Shenyang). Voice of the Martyrs Korea announced today that it is currently preparing a “Contemporary Reader’s Edition” ...
A January 23 coup d’etat in Burkina Faso has closed the borders to that West African nation, but not before Voice of the Martyrs Korea, working in partnership with local Burkina Faso Christians and Voice of the Martyrs Poland, were able to provide drinking water wells and educational support to displaced Christian families there. “A ...
A vigil marking the fifth anniversary of the forced disappearance of Malaysian Pastor Raymond Koh was held Sunday February 13 in the Multi-Purpose Hall of the Council of Churches of Malaysia (CCM) in Kuala Lumpur. In-person attendance was limited to 70 due to local COVID regulations. An additional 2,535 participated via live online broadcast. According ...
For years, Pastor “T” and his church congregation tended to the needs of Eritrean refugees fleeing from their oppressive homeland seeking shelter in the Tigray region of Northern Ethiopia where Pastor T’s church was located. Now, Pastor T and his church members have themselves become refugees as the war between the Tigray state, the Ethiopian ...
