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 ...

“What happened to us weakened our faith, but we are lifted through our local brothers and sisters and this gift.” That is the word from Zalissa, a Christian refugee from the north central region of Burkina Faso who along with her family was forced to “run for our lives” during a jihadist attack on her ...

Voice of the Martyrs Korea has confirmed the arrest of a Lao pastor and five Lao Christians during a prayer service held in the pastor’s home on June 22 in Tahae village, Xaibouathong district, Khammouane province in Central Laos. “Through our local partners we were able to verify that a new village chief, Mr. Lang, ...