On September 24, 2024, Pastor Anooshavan Avedian (62) was acquitted by Branch 21 of the Appeal Court of Tehran on the charge of “propaganda contrary to and disturbing the holy religion of Islam” and ordered to be released from prison immediately, according to Voice of the Martyrs Korea. The ministry, which conducted an international campaign ...
Christians in an estimated 100,000 churches in 130 countries worldwide are expected to join together during the first two Sundays in November to pray for persecuted Christians, according to Christian persecution ministry Voice of the Martyrs Korea. The International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church (IDOP) has been observed annually on the first and ...
Saying “Today is the day for gospel ministry to North Korea,” Voice of the Martyrs CEO Pastor Eric Foley announced that the ministry is making its popular book on North Korean underground Christians, These are the Generations, available for free this month to South Korean Christians. “There is a common misconception in Korea that gospel ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea CEO Pastor Eric Foley recalls meeting Paul Kagame in Denver, Colorado when the President of Rwanda visited the United States in 2003. “My wife and I were working with a Bible distribution ministry at that time, and President Kagame told us his country needed Bibles,” says Pastor Foley. “It was ...
On Sunday, September 1, 2024, the Chengdu Early Rain Covenant Church’s in-person Sunday worship, held in a rented conference room, was disrupted by police. Elder Li Yingqiang, Elder Yan Hong, Pastor Wu Wuqing, and Deacon Zeng Qingtao were taken to the Hongpailou Police Station in Wuhou District for investigation on suspicion of “illegal activities in ...
Search and seizures by Chinese authorities are on the increase for churches serving North Korean sex-trafficked women. That’s the word from Voice of the Martyrs Korea, which operates underground discipleship training programs in the region for North Koreans, including sex-trafficked women married to Chinese men. The ministry is emphasizing that discipleship groups of sex-trafficked North ...
On Sept. 22, 2013, suicide bombers attacked the All Saints Church in Peshawar, Pakistan, after a Sunday worship service. One faithful couple who lost two children in the attack told Voice of the Martyrs how they have worked to bring hope and healing to their church—along with a biblical obedience to forgive their persecutors. Anaya, ...
Central Mexico is rich in industry, history, and natural beauty. But despite its reputation as a welcoming place for business and tourism, not everyone receives a warm welcome. “People get attacked,” says a church planter who has worked in the region for more than two decades. “Usually, it is the closest family members that give ...
Senior pastors from a hundred major state-sanctioned churches in China received training in “loving the country and loving the party” at an event in Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province last month overseen by government officials. The training follows a June meeting in which top government leaders criticized the officials in charge of supervising state-sanctioned churches for ...
Alla Rakhi, the widow of an elderly Pakistani Christian shoemaker who was murdered in May by a mob on accusations of blasphemy, died of a heart attack less than a month after her husband’s death. Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley calls the death tragic and says it highlights the “chain ...
