In early December, Eritrean authorities raided a house where 27 secondary school students were gathered for prayer and worship. After being detained for several days at a police station, the students were transferred to Mai Serena prison near Asmara, which currently houses hundreds of prisoners. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea is reporting that Pastor Shen Shaochun was released from Xishuangbanna Prison in Yunnan Province at the end of 2024 after completing six years and three months of a seven-year sentence for allegedly organizing illegal border crossings into China from neighboring Myanmar. Voice of the Martyrs had conducted a global letter ...
127 North Korean defectors came to three “ministry training parties” hosted by Voice of the Martyrs Korea in Seoul, Daejeon, and Busan around the Chinese New Year holiday. As Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley explains, the events gave North Korean defectors the opportunity to do ministry rather than to be ...
A village once considered Congo’s “paradise on earth” because of work done there by Christian missionaries is slowly returning to normal after a series of bloody anti-Christian attacks carried out by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a violent Islamist group, from 2019 to 2021. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook ...
Contents from a 2019 lecture by a Chinese official have come to light in which Christianity is called “a great harm to the Chinese nation.” Persecution watchdog Voice of the Martyrs Korea and its US-based partner ChinaAid say the comment reflects the Chinese Communist Party’s longstanding concerns about the ideological and national security impacts of ...
Christians in rural Vietnam are accustomed to denial of medical service due to their faith, but a Christian couple there recently experienced a miracle after praying for help when their child was unable to receive life-saving treatment from their local hospital for a heart ailment. “Dong*, who grew up in a Christian home, and his ...
In what has become an annual ritual, Chinese officials again detained leaders of Early Rain Covenant Church on the anniversary of the arrest of Pastor Wang Yi and more than 100 members of the Chengdu congregation on December 9, 2018. This year, nine Early Rain leaders including Pastor Wu Wuqing and Elder Li Yingqiang were ...
The story of two underground North Korean Christians captured while evangelizing North Korean soldiers was documented in a military training video obtained by Korean broadcaster KBS this month. According to Voice of the Martyrs Korea Representative Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, the video is one of several North Korean government videos that have emerged over the ...
Voice of the Martyrs Korea is reporting that an 8-year-old girl in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), orphaned and with burns over half of her body as the result of an attack on a church prayer meeting by Islamist insurgents in June 2022, has been rescued and adopted by local believers who continue ...
A cast of North Korean defector mission students and Voice of the Martyrs Korea staff recently performed an original musical drama at Samsung Church in Seoul, recounting the story of the translation and transmission of the Bible to Korea through Scottish missionary John Ross and his Korean co-workers. The “John Ross Bible Historical Drama”, written ...
