Seeking to promote more knowledgeable and frequent prayer for persecuted Christians around the world, persecution ministry Voice of the Martyrs Korea is offering a free monthly full-color digital Global Prayer Calendar and Newsletter to individuals who request it directly from the ministry. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative Hyun Sook Foley, each day on ...
This month, 20 widows whose husbands were killed in anti-Christian violence in Odisha State are receiving sewing machines and the training to use them. The project, funded by Voice of the Martyrs Korea’s Families of Martyrs and Prisoners Fund, operates in Lokebadi, in the Kandhamal District of Odisha State. According to Voice of the Martyrs ...
Christians in an estimated 100,000 churches in 130 countries worldwide are joining together this November 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 World ...
Schools reopened October 1 in Burkina Faso after being closed due to the Coronavirus. But 440 children of evangelical Christian martyrs and pastors are struggling to enroll. The children, displaced due to terrorist violence and persecution in the northern part of Burkina Faso in 2019 and 2020, lack funds for school fees, supplies, and transportation. This month Voice of the Martyrs Korea ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea today announced a “prisoner alert” emergency letter writing campaign challenging Christians here to write letters of encouragement this month to 14 believers imprisoned for their faith in China, Eritrea, Iran, Pakistan, and North Korea. Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley says that the organization’s goal is ...
The Chinese Communist Party included a Bible story in its official textbook on law and ethics. But according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, the details and meaning have been altered to support Communist ideology. In the altered version, Jesus proclaims himself to be a sinner and stones the woman ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea sent the Chinese Embassy in Seoul a copy of a letter originally written and signed by 439 Chinese pastors, with one addition: 28 pages of signatures from 4,400 Christians from Korea and around the world showing their support and concern for the pastors. The signatures were gathered through an online ...
4,000 “Sunday Schools in a Box” have been distributed through Chinese house church networks to Christian children and families across China in 2020, according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley. “A ‘Sunday School in a Box’ is a Children’s Bible, a video player, and a digital curriculum packaged together so that an adult of any education level can use it to ...
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 ...
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 ...
