Churches are surviving the Coronavirus, but the next test—increased government monitoring and oversight of church activities and leaders—may prove to be more difficult and longer lasting. That is according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea CEO Reverend Eric Foley. Foley has drawn on his experience with churches in Christian-hostile countries to advise Korean churches of ...
In the early morning of March 9th, authorities ordered the destruction of a Christian church building in the town of Chelur in Karnataka State. The pastor and ten other Christians were arrested. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, the authorities were spurred on in the action by Hindu militants, and the church ...
The Coronavirus is not the only new challenge facing Chinese Christians this winter. A new and stricter set of regulations governing churches went into effect in February. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative Hyun Sook Foley, the new regulations are likely to challenge Chinese Christians long after the Coronavirus outbreak is controlled. “Because ...
According to persecution ministry Voice of the Martyrs Korea, on February 16th in the Burkina Faso village of Pansi, gunmen killed 24 people and left at least 18 wounded when they attacked a church service. When they entered the church, the gunmen separated the locals from the non-residents and then separated the men from the ...
According to persecution ministry Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative Foley Hyun Sook, the Hindu nationalist movement, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), has organized a nationwide network of people to report Christian activity. “The RSS want to station radical Hindu nationalists in every one of India’s villages,” Foley explains. “This way, when officials see Christian ...
Church leaders from Eritrea received intensive trauma care, as well as training how to deliver trauma care to their congregation members, in an emergency training event conducted earlier this month by persecution ministry Voice of the Martyrs Korea. “Not many people have even heard of the small country of Eritrea, but it is of special ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea is marking the second anniversary of the martyrdom of Chinese Christian attorney Li Baiguang by releasing a video containing a scripture song of Isiah 35 that he wrote and sang as he would ride the bus for days on the way to the countryside to represent clients facing difficulties with ...
North Korean sex-trafficked women are at special risk for the coronavirus spreading through China according to persecution ministry Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative Hyun Sook Foley. “More often than not, these women are sold to impoverished Chinese men living in poor conditions,” representative Foley explains. “Because they are not living in China legally and ...
Pastors from the western region of Cameroon received intensive trauma care, as well as training in how to deliver trauma care to their congregation members, in an emergency training event conducted in December by persecution ministry Voice of the Martyrs Korea. “Persecution caught these pastors by surprise,” said Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative Dr. ...
The terrorist group Boko Haram kidnapped a state chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria as well as a pastor and 40 church members in two separate raids on January 3 and January 6. A video subsequently released by the terrorist group shows the captive as the Rev. Lawan Andimi, the chairman of the Christian ...
