15 evangelists were temporarily detained and questioned and the group’s leader fined for an evangelism rally in Bogoroditsk, 250 km south of Moscow, on June 9. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, the group, composed of unregistered Baptists from the surrounding regions of Tula, Smolensk and Tver and led ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea, an NGO which serves persecuted Christians worldwide, released letters it received this week from North Koreans working abroad who received audio Bibles through the NGO’s distribution efforts. “The workers wrote that they previously regarded the Bible as ‘the most terrifying thing’, a ‘scary book’, and even an ‘evil thing’,” says ...
Four Protestant churches are currently experiencing harassment by officials in areas now under Russian control, Voice of the Martyrs Korea has confirmed. The organization also received reports of two pastors from the region who were recently detained and then released. “Three churches in the Donetsk Region--Central Baptist Church and the Church of Christ the Saviour ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea, an NGO which serves persecuted Christians worldwide, unveiled a plaque on its Martyrs Timeline commemorating Chinese Christians Meng Lisi and Li Xinheng on the International Day of the Christian Martyr, Wednesday June 29. The plaque was unveiled at a press conference at its office in Seoul. Meng and Li had ...
A church composed of twelve former drug and alcohol addicts, led by a pastor who is himself a former addict, are being hailed as heroes for staying to evangelize and provide aid to Severodonetsk residents as the city came under increasing attack. Pastor Alexander Turgunov and his Church of the Transfiguration delivered food, diapers, clothes, ...
Khartsyzsk, a city in the Donetsk region, is only 130 kilometers from Mariupol. But for the past eight years, with the areas under separate control and travel between them tightly regulated, Christians in the two cities may as well have lived on opposite sides of the world. Now, as the battle lines and the control ...
Zhang Qiang and Xiao Yue were no different than the thousands of other couples preparing for a wedding on Saturday, May 21, in China, except for one thing: They are members of Early Rain Covenant Church in Chengdu. As a result, the weekend did not end with them being pronounced husband and wife but rather ...
Images of death and destruction continue to pour out of Mariupol, where the city council announced that they are bracing for the death by year’s end of 10,000 of the city’s remaining 170,000 residents, due to disease and unsafe living conditions. Yet today other images are also emerging from that besieged city: photos and video ...
Probably some of the youngest attendees who saw the old man seated in a chair at the front of their church sanctuary conducting the choir on Easter Sunday did not know who he was. And according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, that is exactly the way the old man ...
Prior to February 24, Viktor Polunin was the pastor of the Gospel of the Grace of God church in Kyiv. Now, Pastor Polunin and his wife are the Gospel of the Grace of God church in Kyiv. “Before the outbreak of hostilities, Pastor Polunin’s church had about 70 people, and it was dynamic and growing,” ...
