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Eritrean Christians told to remove crosses as schools forced to go public

November 3, 2017 Eritrea Abune Antonios, Asmara, Catholics, Education, Eritrea, Pentecostals, Religious freedom

People running in the streets of Asmara while gun shots can be heard.

...world. Dubbed the “North Korea of Africa”, the Eritrean regime is authoritarian and intolerant towards any form of unregistered organisation, dissent, or free expression. There is no safe place in...

Pakistan should be ‘country of particular concern’ – US senators

October 30, 2017 Pakistan USA

...February 2018”. China, Eritrea, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are the ten countries currently designated as CPCs because, according to the US State Department,...

US to lift Sudan sanctions despite human rights concerns

October 9, 2017 Sudan Darfur, Human rights, North Korea, Religious freedom, Sanctions, Sudan, UN, USA

Teenage girls carry water in a refugee camp for people from the Nuba Mountains in Sudan. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...Korea”. According to a UN report earlier this year, in 2013 Sudan supplied North Korea with sophisticated air-to-ground missiles that use satellite guidance systems. For that reason Sudan will remain...

More than 80 countries ‘favour’ one religion over others – Pew Research Center

October 5, 2017 Global News -- No Particular Country Apostasy, Armenians, Assyrians, Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Cambodia, Central Asia, China, Comoros, Converts, Cuba, India, Iran, Islamic extremism, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Maldives, Mauritania, Middle East, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Africa, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Soviet Union, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam

...through punishing minority religious groups more harshly. Meanwhile, a further 10 countries treat religion with “hostility” – China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam and the six former Soviet countries in Central...

Number of North Koreans fleeing to South Korea drops by 13%

September 19, 2017 North Korea China, North Korea, Refugees, South Korea, Thailand

Barbed wire along the Yalu River, which marks the border between China and North Korea. (Photo: World Watch Monitor) The number of North Koreans who escaped to South Korea in...

Escaping North Korea

September 13, 2017 North Korea China, North Korea, South Korea, Thailand

North Korean border guards at the Yalu River border with China. A vast network of brokers help North Koreans escape Kim Jong-un’s regime through a well-oiled system. Some of their...

Family imprisoned, tortured for fleeing North Korea – and for their Christian faith

August 30, 2017 North Korea China, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea, South Korea

...North Korean flag flying over Kim Il-sung Square in the capital, Pyongyang. Hannah Cho* was born just before the Korean War broke out in 1950. She remembered the air-raid sirens...

North Korea: freed pastor Hyeon Soo Lim welcomed home with ‘joyful crying’

August 16, 2017 North Korea Hyeon Soo Lim, Kim Jong-Un, North Korea

Hyeon Soo Lim addressing his congregation at the on

Hyeon Soo Lim addressing his congregation at the Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto, Canada, on Sunday. The large congregation of Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto, Canada was ecstatic...

Released Canadian Christian describes ‘harsh’ conditions inside N Korean labour camp

August 15, 2017 North Korea Hyeon Soo Lim, North Korea, Otto Warmbier

Lim (c) during a visit to an agricultural project in North Korea (Photo: Lisa Pak/Light Presbyterian Church Toronto) Korean-Canadian pastor Hyeon Soo Lim has spoken about his time in a...

Korean Peninsula a ‘powder keg that needs true peace’

August 9, 2017 South Korea North Korea, Seongju, South Korea, USA

A plaque showing the countries who were involved in the Korean War 1950 - 1953 can be seen at the North-South Korean border. (Photo: Open Doors International)

...Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea, at an interfaith meeting in Seongju, South Korea, to commemorate the end of the Korean war 64 years ago. He told AsiaNews that “if peace...

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