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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.

The Ideal North Korean Missionary: A Tough Old Bird

Our post this week is a surprise guest post by our daughter, Margaret. It’s not because I’m too busy to write or because I’m on vacation that I’m having her guest post. It’s because what she wrote here is better … Continue reading

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It’s the core technology for North Korean ministry. But it can’t be imported from the West because of its scarcity there.

In Underground Technology and Underground University, our discipleship and missionary schools for North Korean defectors in Seoul, we don’t teach South Korean or Western strategies of evangelism, discipleship, and church planting. We don’t even teach missional “best practices”. Instead, we … Continue reading

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It’s NOT Christians that NK objects to. It’s THIS.

Some Western and South Korean Christians believe that through religious tourism and humanitarian aid, North Koreans can at least be exposed to Christians in a way that brings about a gradual religious change. Interestingly, Kim Il Sung believed that to … Continue reading

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