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1. Open Doors Reveals Annual List of Countries Where Believers Brave Harsh Persecution

... their faith was 5,621 and 5,259 Christians were abducted for faith-related reasons. Although persecution has continued through barbaric violence and imprisonment in places like Iran and North Korea, ...

Created on 20 January 2023

2. Study Finds American Abortion Laws Among the Top Six Worst Worldwide

... Family Research Council released a report titled "U.S. Abortion Law in Comparison With the Globe," and the results are pretty damning. "Alongside Canada, China, Vietnam, and both North and South Korea, ...

Created on 03 February 2022

3. A New Perpetrator Has Toppled North Korea as Country Most Dangerous to Be a Christian

There is a new top perpetrator of religious persecution, according to Open Doors' forthcoming 2022 World Watch List. For the past 20 years, North Korea has appeared at number one on the annual list, which ...

Created on 14 January 2022

4. This Country has Labeled Christians 'Blood Sucking Monsters, Murderers and Spies

It's no secret the North Korean regime has no tolerance for religion, but a recent report by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) details how the Workers Party of Korea led by ...

Created on 24 September 2021

5. South Korea Bans Sending Bibles by Balloon Into North Korea

... other Christian materials into North Korea. VOM has delivered about 600,000 Bibles to the southern portion of North Korea by balloon. The law criminalizes using balloons to fly anything considered "anti-North ...

Created on 29 December 2020

6. Creative Ways Christians Are Getting the Gospel Into North Korea as Mystery Surrounding Kim Jong-Un Looms

Christian activists are pursuing aggressively creative ways to bring the gospel into beleaguered North Korea as conflicting reports of their leader, Kim Jong-Un, swirled in the media last week. Voice of ...

Created on 12 May 2020

7. Is This the Moment When Freedom Will Come to North Korea and the Concentration Camps Will Finally End?

... what happened, and the North Korean government is insisting that he is alive and well. South Korea is also saying it has "enough intelligence" to say the dictator is still alive. And it is entirely possible ...

Created on 27 April 2020

8. Kim Jong-Un Prophecies and the Reunited Korea

Is North Korea's dictator dead or alive? In 2017, during the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders with Cindy Jacobs, Bill Hamon, Stacey Campbell and more, I had a vision concerning North Korea. At Awakening ...

Created on 27 April 2020

9. Prophet Issues Urgent Call to Prayer Over North Korea's 'Hidden Agend

Kim Jong-Un made promising remarks about denuclearization when he met with President Donald Trump last year, but now it seems the North Korean dictator is backpedaling. Kim recently accused the Trump administration ...

Created on 16 July 2019

10. 'Prophecy Fulfilled': Spirit-Filled Songwriter Penned Lyrics at Exact Spot Where Trump Made Histor

In 2012, Sean Feucht, a Christian artist well-known for his work with Bethel, wrote the song "Finish What You Started (Song for North Korea)," while on the Korean Demilitarized Zone. This is the same spot ...

Created on 01 July 2019

11. Everything You Need to Know About Trump's Weekend Meeting With North Korea's Kim Jong

When nuclear talks resume after Sunday's off-the-cuff meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the inter-Korean border, negotiators will be revisiting old disagreements ...

Created on 01 July 2019

12. Uncanny Parallels Between Trump's Revival Roots and Korea's Prophetic Futu

... experienced a Presbyterian revival of its own—to the point that Pyongyang was called the "Jerusalem of Asia." Christians planted around 3,000 Presbyterian churches during that time. North Korean dictator ...

Created on 01 April 2019

13. Trump Scraps Nuclear Deal With North Korea

U.S. President Donald Trump said he had walked away from a nuclear deal at his summit with Kim Jong Un in Vietnam on Thursday because of unacceptable demands from the North Korean leader to lift punishing ...

Created on 28 February 2019

14. The No. 1 Thing to Hope, Pray for During the US-North Korea Summit

This week, all eyes will be on another U.S.-North Korea summit as President Trump and Kim Jong Un meet for the second time. "I look forward to seeing Chairman Kim and advancing the cause of peace!" President ...

Created on 26 February 2019

15. What's Really Happening in North Korea's Underground Chur

A new Associated Press report details the lives of the Christians in North Korea's underground church: Singing hymns in virtual silence, praying under blankets or in bathrooms and refusing to recant, even ...

Created on 01 February 2019

16. North Korea, America and the Media: How Different Are We?

When it comes to having access to information, North Korea and America are worlds apart. One nation is totally closed, with the populace only getting what the media feeds them. And the people have no internet ...

Created on 21 January 2019

17. Christians Forced to Meet in a River to Avoid Capture

Living in one of the most severely persecuted nations on earth, the Christians of North Korea have to be incredibly resourceful when it comes to practicing their faith. The authorities that govern the ...

Created on 07 November 2018

18. Christians Are Being Burned Alive, Steamrolled—Here's What Trump Is Doing to Help Stop I

In his book Trump Aftershock, best-selling author Stephen E. Strang writes about how Donald Trump addressed the persecution of Christians in North Korea. North Korean Christians face torture, rape, enslavement ...

Created on 29 October 2018

19. He Used to Be Terrified of Christians—Until Something Miraculous Happened

... in South Korea. But the North Korean secret service would very much like to know who he is, because Seojun escaped from North Korea. That means any knowledge of his true identity could put him in danger—and ...

Created on 19 October 2018

20. Kim Jong Un Just Invited Pope Francis to Visit North Korea

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has invited Pope Francis to visit Pyongyang, a gesture designed to highlight peace efforts, South Korea's presidential office said on Tuesday. South Korean President Moon ...

Created on 09 October 2018