Religious, political and ethnic persecution is on the rise globally.Although our major focus is the plight of North Koreans in crisis,this section highlights similar trends of human rights abuses and persecution in other parts of the world.
The mission strategy of HHK/Catacombs to reach North Korean refugees is outlined by Tim in this issue written by Isaac Stone Fish, which gives an overview of various mission approaches to the extraordinarily difficult field of the great Christian persecutor, the DPRK. Quotes from the article: “But the majority of the missionaries involved with North Koreans …
NORTH KOREA DEFECTORS. That’s coming up on CBC’s As It Happens. http://www.cbc.ca/video/news/audioplayer.html?clipid=2181337785 The images are as bizarre as they are rare. Today, North Koreans buried their Dear Leader, and the funeral was broadcast to the world via that country’s state television. However choreographed, it was a highly unusual view into the secretive nation. The country has a …
(Dec.21,2011)Rick Wallace, TOKYO Correspondent for The Australian contrasts the jubilation of North Korean defectors who’ve escaped North Korea with the hysteria accompanying regime-led mourning for the death of longstanding dictator, Kim Jong-il. Quotes from HHK Director in this article: “Tim Peters, founder and director of defector support group Helping Hands Korea, said Kim’s death would …
North Korean defectors jubilant at tyrant Kim Jong-il’s demise (The Australian) Read More »
Christian Solidarity Worldwide’s (CSW) East Asian Team Leader Mr.Ben Rogers gave compelling testimony before the Congressional Committee of Foreign Affairs on Thursday, November 17, 2011. Embedded in Ben’s testimony were reports from HHK/Catacombs about a remarkable 16 year-old North Korean teen girl who was executed in Hyesan City for bringing her countrymen to Christ. Field …
Helping Hands Needed for N.K. kids Charity founder calls for more help for ‘second wave’ of orphans in China He was only 11 years old, but he was already fending, rather unsuccessfully, for himself. Separated from his North Korean mother and abandoned by his Chinese father, the boy was living in a collapsing cottage without …
Read More: http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/portrait-song-byeok-north-korean-propagandist-turned-protest-artist
Koreas hold first military talks since island attack—Yonhap News (February 8th) http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2011/02/08/84/0301000000AEN20110208006800315F.HTML
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Christian shot dead in Egypt: sources Tue Jan 11, 2011 6:06pm GMT By Yasmine Saleh and Mohamed Abdellah CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian Christian was shot dead on a train on Tuesday and at least three others were wounded, sources said, less than two weeks after a church was bombed in Egypt’s deadliest sectarian attack …
Bloody New Year for Orthodox Copts in Egypt: Christians Slain in Church, on Train Read More »
