2021-01-21 | News, North Korea, Prayer, Testimonies
“Your name is the first thing they take. Then they take your freedom. They take your health. They take away the presence of other people.
They take your clothes. And your hair. And finally, they take away the daylight.”
2020-11-11 | News, North Korea, Prayer, Testimonies
Her parents served in the underground church in North Korea for decades. She managed to escape from North Korea earlier this year where she visited an Open Doors safe house and received food, fellowship and pastoral care. After she was strengthened physically and spiritually, she was able to return to North Korea.
2020-09-10 | News, North Korea, Prayer
The “ghost disease.” That’s what North Koreans call COVID-19. “People can be sick without knowing it,” Brother Simon*, Open Doors’ coordinator for ministry among North Koreans, says. “They are usually malnourished already. Then suddenly, they die quickly. Some even just fall dead on the ground. It’s an invisible killer.”
2020-04-19 | Bangladesh, Central Asia, East and South East Asia, East Asia, India, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, News, North Korea, Philippines, Prayer, South Asia, Testimonies, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
Persecuted Christians receiving urgent Open Doors aid in Bangladesh “Our government does try to help people in need,” Hana* says. “But some of our most remote communities have been neglected when they were identified as Christians. We distribute this aid to the...
2020-03-14 | East Asia, News, North Korea, Prayer
While the coronavirus outbreak in South Korea is causing major problems, North Korea continues to deny that there are any cases in their state.Medical care in North Korea is poor; there are very few trained doctors. If you do manage to see a doctor, you’ll most likely...
2020-03-11 | East Asia, News, North Korea, Prayer, Testimonies, Uncategory
When Sang-Hwa* discovered her parents’ secret Bible, she faced a life-threatening decision. Should she betray her family to the authorities, as she’d been trained in school to do? “Wow. We’re all dead now.” Kim Sang-Hwa dropped the strange book to the floor. She’d...
