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North Koreans became Christian by watching secular Russian movies

Posted on December 21, 2023 by Pastor Foley

Secular movies are usually not known for their evangelistic impact, but according to one of several letters from North Korean underground Christians recently received by Voice of the Martyrs Korea, a family inside North Korea became Christians by seeing characters … Continue reading →

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Russia: New reports about religious freedom violations “only scratch the surface”

Posted on August 8, 2023 by Pastor Foley

Religious freedom is continuing to decline sharply across the Russian Federation and occupied Ukraine, as authorities apply vague laws targeting extremism, terrorism, missionary activity, and undesirable organizations to ban various religious activities by Protestant, Catholic, Muslim, and other groups. That … Continue reading →

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Russian courts rule that personal evangelism is an illegal form of church recruitment

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Pastor Foley

In separate cases in May, courts in Russia’s far northeast Chukotka Autonomous Okrug fined two Christians for personally distributing Bibles and Christian books, ruling that the distributions constituted illegal church recruitment and not personal evangelism. The two Christians, Ryshkov Mikhail … Continue reading →

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