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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.

There Are Countless Captivities But Always The Same Ransom

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Pastor Foley

By placing the Work of Mercy of ransoming the captive within the fullness of the Scriptural context we’ve come to see in our posts this month how: ransoming the captive is actually a ministry of ransoming the captor (who is … Continue reading →

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Why Neither Nonviolence Nor Violence Are Ever The Right Strategies: The Great Insight That All Great Men Of History Can Only Ever Get From Jesus

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Pastor Foley

You might be surprised to see a piece on nonviolence materialize smack in the center of a month of posts on ransoming the captive, but this is actually right where it belongs. Or, more accurately, doesn’t belong. Because on the basis of … Continue reading →

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First Rule Of Ransoming: Always Ransom The One Who Is Most Captive, Namely, The Captor

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Pastor Foley

Three Scriptures receive virtually no attention in the study of the Work of Mercy of ransoming the captive and yet are indispensable to it. The first is 1 Timothy 1:12-16 (ESV), where Paul doxologizes: 12 I thank him who has given me … Continue reading →

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