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 ...
The 2022 Beijing Olympics open Friday February 4 and end Sunday February 20. Persecution ministry Voice of the Martyrs Korea has released prayer points for each of the 13 days of the games to help Christians pray together on behalf of China’s persecuted Christians. “Christians in China are experiencing an ‘Olympics of persecution’ that requires ...
Pastor Pan's "Mayflower Church" final asylum appeal has been denied by the Gwangju High Court. The court denied the appeal without additional comment, referring to the previous judgment. The decision could mean the group is required to leave Korea in as little as two weeks, according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr Hyun ...
A college in the Maldives which claims it played a Christian song by accident during a children’s sports festival is now facing a police investigation. According to the Times of Addu, the Maldives media source which first reported the incident, Clique College says it had no desire to promote Christianity and no intention to play the Christian song, which they say auto-played from a playlist during ...
In China, new restrictions on religious Internet content are set to go into effect on March 1. Observers are noting that the restrictions are already having a chilling effect on Chinese Christians’ online activity. But one Chinese street evangelist is taking his bold message online and encouraging Chinese Christians to stay calm and keep on ...
China’s state-owned Global Times last month announced a new government ban to go into effect March 1 on the operation of “online religious information services” by “overseas organizations”, but according to Christian persecution watchdog agency Voice of the Martyrs Korea, the text of the new regulations reveals a different target: a major new crackdown on ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea announced today a plan to distribute 5,000 Bibles to Egyptian Muslims in 2022, through a partnership with local Egyptian Christians and their sister mission, Voice of the Martyrs Australia. The partnership follows what local Egyptian believers and Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley are calling a successful distribution ...
Authorities in Deyang in China’s Sichuan Province detained the accountant for Early Rain Qingcaodi Church, one of the churches planted by the embattled Chengdu Early Rain Covenant Church, on November 30. Accountant Liu Wuyi has been ordered to provide evidence against a current church elder and a retired elder there who were arrested in November ...
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 ...
