Tag Archives: idolatry

Christians Are Always Behind Enemy Lines

“I want to tell you something that perhaps no one has told you before,” Pastor Foley paused in the middle of his sermon. He searched the faces of each one of the people before him—the North Korean, the Chinese, the … Continue reading

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How Witnessing An Execution Gave One North Korean An Insatiable Hunger To Read The Bible

File this one under Romans 8:28: We received a letter from KCR, a North Korean defector in prison in South Korea. (There are many NK defectors in SK prisons, and they are rarely reached by churches.) We sent him one … Continue reading

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Do North Koreans Worship Kim Il Sung As God?

The question of whether North Koreans regard Kim Il-Sung as God is–as with many subjects in North Korean studies–hardly as straightforward as it appears. For starters, North Korea is keenly aware that the rest of the world would regard such … Continue reading

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