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 ...
There are reports from Eritrea that the government has released 27 Christian prisoners of faith, and hopes are rising that more could follow. According to Release International, the sister mission of Voice of the Martyrs Korea, the government has just set free 27 prisoners, most of whom have been imprisoned for more than ten years. They ...
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 ...
성경의 진정한 가치를 상기시켜준 북한 노동자 순교자의 소리가 조선어(북한 방언) 성경을 풍선과 손으로 전달하는 사역이 ‘반북단체의 정치전단’과 다르다는 것을 남한 당국자들에게 납득시키고 있는 중에, 어떤 북한 노동자의 감사편지를 받았다. 그는 북한 정부가 파견한 해외 노동자로 순교자의 소리 사역자에게 조선어 오디오 성경을 받았다. 이 오디오 성경을 듣고 난 뒤, 그는 이런 간증을 편지로 보냈다. “한샘의 소망을 ...
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 ...
An NK laborer reminds us of the true value of the Bible. In the midst of our efforts to persuade South Korean authorities that the Chosun (North Korean) Bible we launch by balloon and distribute by hand is not “anti-North Korean propaganda”, we received the following thank-you note from a North Korean laborer. The laborer, after ...
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 ...
More than 100 security guards removed two church crosses in Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, on July 7. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, local believers now fear Zhejiang could see a second large-scale cross demolition movement, similar to the one that destroyed more than 1700 crosses in 2014-2015. At 5:04 ...
