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About Pastor Foley

The Reverend Dr. Eric Foley is CEO and Co-Founder, with his wife Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, of Voice of the Martyrs Korea, supporting the work of persecuted Christians in North Korea and around the world and spreading their discipleship practices worldwide. He is the former International Ambassador for the International Christian Association, the global fellowship of Voice of the Martyrs sister ministries. Pastor Foley is a much sought after speaker, analyst, and project consultant on the North Korean underground church, North Korean defectors, and underground church discipleship. He and Dr. Foley oversee a far-flung staff across Asia that is working to help North Koreans and Christians everywhere grow to fullness in Christ. He earned the Doctor of Management at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management in Cleveland, Ohio.

How A North Korean Press Conference With Kim Jong Uk May Have Been The Largest Public Moment Of Evangelism In North Korean History

A student at one of our discipleship training bases for North Koreans shared with us that in March, the North Korean government broadcast a one-hour news conference about South Korean Missionary Kim Jong Uk, the missionary who is now detained … Continue reading

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On Balloons That Take A Few Launches To Land True

Greetings from 35,000 feet over Russia! Dr. Foley and I are en route back to Korea from London after a particularly satisfying week of meetings across England with Joseph, our North Korean defector “son.” You may have heard me mention … Continue reading

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Why We Should Distribute Fewer Bibles (And What We Should Do With The Savings)

Yes, I run a ministry that launches fifty thousand Bibles a year by balloon into North Korea. Yes, our ministry creates new versions of the Bible every year, like our new North Korean/South Korean Parallel Bible. Yes, I have helped to … Continue reading

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