Citing government statistics that about 35% of North Korean defectors live outside of the Seoul/Incheon/Gyeonggi Province area, Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley announced today a 500,000,000 KRW initiative to evangelize and disciple North Korean defector “lost sheep” in the South Korean countryside in 2022. “Jesus said if you have a hundred ...
When Tôn Thành Sang’s* brother-in-law conspired with the village chief to evict Tôn’s family from their home in the Vietnamese highlands, the brother-in-law, a former government official, was trying to stop Christianity, not spread it. But now, through the support of a local pastor and Voice of the Martyrs Korea, the eviction has led to ...
When Vanya received his Action Bible New Testament, he burst into tears. “It reminded him of his father,” says Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley. Eastern Ukraine, with the conflict zones of Lugansk and Donetsk indicated Vanya, a young boy, lives in a village of about a thousand people in the so-called “gray zone” of Eastern Ukraine, an ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea today announced plans to send Christmas Care Packages containing children’s Bibles, school supplies, toys, clothing, and hygiene items to Christian children in ten countries where their families are facing persecution due to their faith. “Last year our VOMK supporters made it possible for us to send more than 700 Christmas Care Packages to children ...
The South Korean government has denied the second appeal for asylum for the 60 members of Shenzen Holy Reformed Church, including its Pastor Pan Yongguang. The group, dubbed the “Mayflower Church” by global religious freedom advocates, fled China in 2019 for Jeju Island, where they have been supporting themselves by doing menial labor during their ...
Christians in an estimated 100,000 churches in 130 countries worldwide will be joining together this Sunday to pray especially for persecuted Christians. The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church has been observed annually on the first and second Sundays of November each year since being established more than 20 years ago by the ...
Officials in Hunan Province, China released the man known to his friends as the “Gospel Warrior”, Chen Wensheng, on October 11th after he served 15 days in a detention center, for public evangelism. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, the detention was Chen’s sixth in 2021. He was also ...
(Linhai, Zhejiang Province) A Christian bookstore owner who was sent to prison for selling books by foreign Christians and by Early Rain Church Pastor Wang Yi has had his appeal hearing postponed indefinitely. Authorities blamed the postponement of the hearing of Zhang Xiaomai, the owner of Xiaomai Bookstore in Linhai, Zhejiang Province, on Coronavirus concerns. ...
According to researchers, the number of Christians among the Saura tribe of eastern India has increased from 2,000 30 years ago to more than 200,000 today, an estimated 60% of the Saura population. Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley says that growth has led to resentment and violence against the Saura ...
As the North Korean government implements its new “anti-reactionary thought law”, which promises even harsher punishments for anyone found accessing foreign content, one ministry says a return to low-tech methods of information distribution is essential to protecting those who are distributing and receiving gospel outreach inside North Korea. “Technology always leaves a trail, and often ...
