Each year, as we prepare our North Korea projects and budgets for the coming year, we write a brief history of North Korean Christianity and a snapshot of present conditions to include with our project proposals. Our present circumstances, in which we stand accused in our own country as criminals alongside our North Korean Christian brothers and ...
Today’s Most Effective North Korean Missionary: A 19th Century Scot
Here's a piece I wrote with Release International's Scotland Area Representative James Fraser following Dr. Foley's and my recent visit. Every year, hundreds of South Korean and Chinese tourists flock to Scotland. They come for the customary reasons: to see the beauty, the history, and the castles of this blessed land. But a steady stream ...
한국 VOM, 존 로스의 선교 방법론 새 번역본 출간 – 순수한 복음 전파를 제국주의 선교라며 비난하는 중국 정부에 반박하기 위한 목적
중국 정부의 새 종교 사무조례가 작년 2월에 발효되면서 중국 교회는 외국 기독교인과 접촉하려면 당국의 허락을 받아야 합니다. 중국 정부는 기독교를 빌미로 중국을 지배하려는 서양 세력을 뿌리 뽑기 위해 기독교를 ‘중국화’ 하는 것이 그 목적이라고 말합니다. 그러나 한국 VOM(Voice of Martyrs) 현숙 폴리 대표는 ‘중국화’를 시작한 장본인은 중국 공산당이 아니라, 중국 기독교 초기에 복음을 전해주고 한국에도 ...
The True Sinicization of John Ross and the Counterfeit Sinicization of the Chinese Communist Party
Today the Chinese government is officially working to“Sinicize” Christianity. This kind of Sinicization is best defined as “the program of forced assimilation of religions to Chinese culture, which includes submission to the Chinese Communist Party.”[i] But for more than a millennium before the Communist Party of China began their project, Western missionaries like John Ross …