For the few thousand Muslims in China who have become Christians, life is characterized by loneliness. Cast out from their families and communities, in the rural areas where most of them live it is difficult to find other Christians, especially
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BEIJING — Authorities in northern China’s coal country have demolished a well-known Christian mega-church, underscoring long-standing tensions between religious groups and the officially atheistic Communist Party. Witnesses and overseas activists say paramilitary People’s Armed Police forces used excavators and dynamite
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A North Korean man and woman who escaped their country separately and married later in South Korea have gone home and are helping state security agents identify and arrest citizens suspected of having contacts in the South, sources in both
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Muslim-background believers (MBBs) and Buddhist-background believers (BBBs), notably Tibetan believers, are found to be the most persecuted Christian groups in China. Open Doors has shifted focus towards serving them. Chinese official statistics stated that there are around 6.4 million Tibetans
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KARACHI: The killing in recent months of a Chinese man and a woman at the hands of suspected militants in Balochistan has put Beijing in a quandary. That’s because the two were not in Quetta to teach mandarin but to do something
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Rev. Hyeon Soo Lim, the Canadian pastor recently freed from imprisonment in North Korea, has shared how he “prayed without ceasing” and memorized over 700 Bible verses during his two-and-a-half years in a labor camp. Hyeon Soo Lim, 62, was
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8/10/2017 Washington, DC (International Christian Concern) – North Korea is one of the most oppressive countries toward Christians in the world. Unfortunately, Christians do not have the freedom to practice their faith or even talk about it openly with some of
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In northwestern China, five Christians were denied court appeals resulting in lengthy prison sentences for each of them, ranging from 3 to 5 years. The Chinese court rejected the appeals of Zheng Lan, Cheng Yajie, Wang Lulu, Liu Yan, and
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An international group of lawyers and judges on Tuesday called on Beijing to release human rights lawyer Xie Yang, who was detained during a nationwide crackdown on the legal profession beginning in July 2015, and whose trial at a court
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A North Korean military official recently defected into South Korea in search of something rare in North Korea – something that validated his Christian faith. While at a resettlement center in South Korean for North Korean refugees, he met VOM
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