{"id":7175,"date":"2018-09-04T16:00:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T07:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/?p=7175"},"modified":"2019-06-19T15:52:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T06:52:52","slug":"vomk-report-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/2018\/09\/04\/vomk-report-22\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korean Ministry Visits the Middle East to Teach Persecuted Christians Lessons from the North Korean Underground Church"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Voice of the Martyrs Korea board chair Hyun Sook Foley and CEO Pastor Eric Foley recently returned from the Middle East after leading an August training event in which they taught persecuted Middle Eastern Christians lessons from the North Korean Underground Church.” font_container=”tag:p|font_size:1.2em|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Noto%20Sans%3Aregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal” el_class=”headline”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row overlay_dotted=””][vc_column][vc_column_text]This training event was hosted by Voice of the Martyrs Korea\u2019s Middle Eastern Ministry partner, Uncharted Ministries, and was attended by 30 Yazidi, Kurdish, Jordanian, and Palestinian Christians.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”7177″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]The Foleys have been working with the North Korean underground Church for 15 years. Their organization, Voice of the Martyrs Korea, supports the work of the North Korean underground church through a broad range of projects that help evangelize and disciple North Koreans wherever they are found. 36 individuals associated with the ministry\u2019s work have been martyred during the Foley\u2019s tenure.<\/p>\n

Says Board chair Foley, \u201cSince Christians in the Middle East also face fierce persecution like North Korean underground Christians do, our partner, Uncharted Ministries wanted to equip Middle Eastern Christians with a biblical understanding of persecution and how God calls us to respond.\u201d[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row overlay_dotted=””][vc_column][vc_column_text]\u201cThe main driver of persecution in the Middle East is evangelism,\u201d Representative Foley explains. \u201cMost Christians are not persecuted simply for being Christian. Usually, they\u2019re persecuted when they share Christ with family or friends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Middle Eastern Christians who attended the event were deeply impacted by the training.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the past when Korean missionaries visited us, they only talked about the prosperity associated with the Christian life. Very rarely did they talk about persecution,\u201d one of the Jordanian Christian leaders in attendance said. \u201cThis training was the most important that we\u2019ve ever received because it equipped us to understand why we must suffer and yet rejoice.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the basis of this training, VOMK has been invited to visit four other Middle Eastern countries to train persecuted Christians there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe church is one body around the world and across time,\u201d Representative Foley says, \u201cso we need to be more aware of the suffering that our Christian brothers and sisters are experiencing because of their faithfulness. We need to be faithful to advance the gospel in the face of persecution.\u201d<\/p>\n

To learn more about the persecuted church in the Middle East, you can order Uncharted Ministry Representative Tom Doyle<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s best-selling book, Dreams and Visions<\/em>, from Voice of the Martyrs Korea by calling 02-2065-0703. You can also learn more about Voice of the Martyrs Korea\u2019s Middle Eastern ministry<\/a><\/strong> by visiting their website at http:\/\/vomkorea.com.<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][\/vc_section]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Voice of the Martyrs Korea board chair Hyun Sook Foley and CEO Pastor Eric Foley recently returned from the Middle East after leading an August training event in which …","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[530,532,216,217,533,534],"class_list":["post-7175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vomk-report","tag-middle-eastern-ministry-partner","tag-tom-doyle","tag-uncharted","tag-217","tag-533","tag-534"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ko","en","zh","ru"],"languages":{"ko":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"zh":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"ru":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vomkorea.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}