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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.

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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The US State Department’s 2022 NK Religious Freedom Report continues to “bury the lede”

Posted on June 20, 2023 by Pastor Foley

The US State Department’s 2022 Report on International Religious Freedom was released last month. News of the report’s release appeared most commonly in headlines like this: “North Korea sentenced Christian toddler to life in a prison camp”–UPI “Toddler in North … Continue reading →

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The Ross Bible re-enters North Korea 140 years after it first arrived!

Posted on June 7, 2023 by Pastor Foley

In 1882, Koreans successfully smuggled the first ever Korean language version of the scriptures—in the form of the Gospel of Luke they had just translated with Missionary John Ross—from Moukden, China (today’s Shenyang) inside of what is today North Korea. … Continue reading →

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