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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In response to new government restrictions on church gatherings, Voice of the Martyrs Korea has made its award-winning feature film “Tortured for Christ” available for free online viewing at www.vomkorea.com/tfc. The movie is normally only available through specially arranged showings to whole churches, but according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, the ...
Samaru Madkami, a 16-year-old boy from Kendukuda village, Malkangiri district, Odisha, India, was crushed to death with stones on June 4, 2020. Voice of the Martyrs Korea is reporting that the boy was murdered by radical Hindu nationalists because of his faith in Christ. “SamaruMadkami was a teenager from a very poor background,” says Voice of ...
Controversy surrounds the opening of the new Resurrection of Christ Church in Kubinka near Moscow. The cathedral, designed as the Armed Forces’ main church, is designed to hold 6,000 worshipers and features a military green color and missile-like towers. It was built at a cost of around 6 billion Rubles (roughly 100 billion Korean Won), ...
Bible distribution to North Koreans continues to be double that of the same period last year, according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley. The ministry credits the Coronavirus for the heightened interest of North Koreans, as well as for new avenues for distribution. “North Koreans are looking for hope in ...
