Post by Daniel on Jun 16, 2018 8:07:21 GMT -5
Remember North Korea’s Christians
Juicy Ecumenism
June 11, 2018
...Before the Communist takeover, North Korea was known as “the Jerusalem of the East.” A spiritual revival took place in January 1907 and continued for three years. According to Mathew Backholer in Revival Fire, 50,000 people came to Christ in the first year of the revival.
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Try as it might, though, the DPRK has never wiped out Christianity. Some experts say that there are as many as 400,000 secret believers, most of whom became Christians in China or through contact with Chinese or South Korean Christians. They live in constant threat of imprisonment or execution. The State Department 2017 International Religious Freedom report indicates that in 2012 Cornerstone Ministries International estimated that 10-45 percent of those imprisoned in detention camps were Christians.
The USCIRF report Thank You, Father Kim Il-sung interviewed two former North Korean political police who defected. They stated that their work included “hunting down such Christians” and that the purpose of the “brutally coercive interrogations” of North Koreans who have been forcibly repatriated from China is to identify North Koreans involved with foreign Christians and missions.”
The USCIRF report Thank You, Father Kim Il-sung interviewed two former North Korean political police who defected. They stated that their work included “hunting down such Christians” and that the purpose of the “brutally coercive interrogations” of North Koreans who have been forcibly repatriated from China is to identify North Koreans involved with foreign Christians and missions.”
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