Religious freedom is continuing to decline sharply across the Russian Federation and occupied Ukraine, as authorities apply vague laws targeting extremism, terrorism, missionary activity, and undesirable organizations to ban various religious activities by Protestant, Catholic, Muslim, and other groups. That is the conclusion of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a bipartisan government ...
A church in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province founded in 1859 by John Nevius, the American missionary famed for his non-traditional methods of church planting and missions, has announced its own new mission: Serving as a “demonstration site” for the Sinicization of Christianity. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, that new ...
The wife and son of Dr. Li Baiguang, the Chinese human rights attorney who died under suspicious circumstances in 2018, have escaped to the United States, according to the Christian nonprofit groups ChinaAid and Voice of the Martyrs Korea. Hanmei “Hannah” Xu and Qingxin “Pure Heart” Li arrived in the United States last month and ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea recently began a Bible Dance Therapy class for North Korean defectors enrolled in its Underground Technology discipleship training school. Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, a former student of famed Korean traditional dancer Lee Mae Bang, is the instructor. She explains why she created the class ...
In a recent class at one of Voice of the Martyrs Korea’s discipleship training schools for North Korean defectors, Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, the ministry’s Representative, was teaching the students about Missionary Robert Jermain Thomas, one of the earliest Protestant missionaries to Korea who was martyred while attempting to sail up the Taedong River near ...
In separate cases in May, courts in Russia’s far northeast Chukotka Autonomous Okrug fined two Christians for personally distributing Bibles and Christian books, ruling that the distributions constituted illegal church recruitment and not personal evangelism. The two Christians, Ryshkov Mikhail Ivanovich from the easternmost Russian city of Anadyr and Kovtun Nikolai Alekseevich from the Arctic ...
Calling his martyrdom “one of the most dramatic and powerful witnesses for Christ in the 20th century”, Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley unveiled a commemorative plaque on the ministry’s Martyr’s Timeline for martyred Somali evangelist Abdiwelli Ahmed. Voice of the Martyrs Korea also released a free dramatized short video of ...
During the early morning hours of May 23, 2004, two Eritrean pastors were each arrested by Eritrean authorities for their roles in leading churches in “illegal” evangelical Christian denominations. June marks the beginning of the 19th year in prison for the pastors, Haile Nayzgi and Dr. Kiflu Gebremeskel. Christian persecution ministry Voice of the Martyrs ...
In 1882, Koreans successfully smuggled the first ever Korean language version of the scriptures—in the form of the Gospel of Luke they had just translated with Missionary John Ross—from Moukden, China (today’s Shenyang) inside of what is today North Korea. Now 140 years later, according to persecution ministry Voice of the Martyrs Korea, Koreans have ...
A Baptist pastor from Moscow who was carrying humanitarian aid to help brothers and sisters in the Luhansk region of Ukraine was arrested at a checkpoint and detained since April 21 but has now been released. According to persecution ministry Voice of the Martyrs Korea, authorities may have been intending to make an example out ...
