Church sanctuaries decked with national flags and leader’s photos. The Ten Commandments edited. Bibles re-translated as state church leaders emphasize the need to free Christianity from its ‘foreign cultural captivity’. These are the reports emerging from China today. According to many Chinese religion analysts, they represent not a return to the Cultural Revolution but to ...
The Supreme Court of Pakistan today upheld the decision to throw out the false blasphemy charges against Asia Bibi. Voice of the Martyrs Board Chair Dr. Hyun Sook Foley issued the following statement: "We are delighted that the Supreme Court has stood firm over its principled and courageous decision to throw out the false blasphemy ...
Since November 2018, Iran’s steadily growing Christian community (one of the world’s oldest Christian communities) is seeing a marked increase in arrests. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative Hyun Sook Foley, about 70 Christians were arrested near Karaj, Alborz province and 30 more arrests were made in Damavand and other parts of Tehran. ...
These Are the Generations, the true story of three generations of a North Korean family that faithfully received and passed on the gospel underground, was published in its sixth language this month, Czech, with printings in Spanish and Chinese scheduled for this spring. 한국 VOM에서 펴낸 『믿음의 세대들』(These Are the Generations) “What makes These are the Generations unique isn’t just that it was co-written by North ...
On January 5th, a Chinese Christian mother from Early Rain Covenant Church experienced a miscarriage after suffering severe physical and mental harassment in China’s crackdown on the Early Rain Church last month. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative, Hyun Sook Foley, On December 9, 2018, this mother was dragged by force from her ...
The Chinese government’s new February religious regulations prevent Chinese churches from unapproved contact with foreign Christians. The goal, according to the Chinese government, is the ‘Sinicization’ of Christianity to overcome what they call Christianity’s imperialist past. But according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea representative Hyun Sook Foley, the concept of Sinicization did not begin ...
❗️Update: Pastor John Cao's trial in China has now been delayed for two more months, until March 2019. Sometimes China waits for people to forget. Don't. - 2019.01.24 (Pu’er Yunnan—December 5, 2018) Officials in China’s Yunnan province postponed until January 22, 2019 the sentencing appeal originally scheduled this month for Pastor John Cao, a Chinese ...
지난 주 중국 당국은 이른비언약교회(秋雨圣约教会 Early Rain Covenant Church) 왕 이(Wang Yi) 목사와 사모를 비롯한 기독교인 100명 이상을 체포했다. 현재 한국VOM(Voice of the Martyrs)은 왕 목사를 비롯한 10명의 기독교 지도자들이 “국가 권력 전복 선동죄”라는 혐의로 형사 고발됐다는 보고를 받았다. 이들은 형사사건 재판이 열릴 때까지 6개월 동안 감옥에 구금될 예정이다. 왕 이 목사의 사모에게 전달된 형사 ...
믿음의 불복종 선언문 믿음의 불복종 선언문 PDF 다운로드 - 2018년 12월 12일, 중국 청두 이른비 언약 교회, 왕 이 목사. 나는 하나님께서 중국에 세우신 당국자들을 성경의 가르침과 복음 전파 사명에 근거하여 존중합 니다. 세상의 왕을 자리에 앉히거나 자리에서 끌어내리는 이는 하나님이십니다. 그래서 나는 하나 님이 만드신 여기 중국의 역사적, 제도적 상황에 순종합니다. 나는 기독교 교회의 ...
Police in Pakistan have warned Christians that terrorists are planning an attack on their community following the Asia Bibi acquittal. According to Agenzia Fides, the news agency of the Vatican, the Lahore Police Inspectorate warned Christians to be vigilant, claiming that terrorist groups such as Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan and Jamaat-ul-Ahrar have made plans for attack. Pakistani ...
