It's feared Christians in North Korea are facing a fresh wave of persecution after a charity which supports defectors said authorities are blaming a damning UN Seoul USA said that North Korea claims...
The Christian Council of Korea's decision to put up a Christmas tree near the border with the North is an "intolerable insult", North Korea's state-run media ha South Korean officials gave permission...
Items with crosses on them are being confiscated across North Korea as the secretive state begins its latest crackdown on Christianity. The dictatorship has banned crucifixes and crosses, according t...
North Korea has denied cruelly treating or torturing Otto Warmbier, a church-going student who died days following his release from the country where he had bee Pyongyang says it has been the target ...
North Korea has imprisoned a Canadian pastor who helps to run a nursery, nursing home and orphanage there. Hyeon Soo Lim, 60, has been the head pastor of Light Korean Presbyterian Church in Toronto, ...
Amid reports North Korea has fired another ballistic missile, Christians are being urged to pray that the secretative state to halt its tests and co-operates di A Christian peer who founded a parliam...
North Korea has released an American Christian serving a 15-year prison term for alleged anti-state acts, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said. "At the direction of the President, the Departm...
North Korea says it has released a Canadian pastor who was serving a life sentence since 2015 for anti-state activities over health reasons. Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said that ...
North Korea has topped a new ranking of countries where persecution against Christians is worst for the 16th consecutive year. Releasing its latest World Watch List, Open Doors said it believes 70,00...
Officials in South Korea have requested their North neighbours to send a number of Catholics to a mass celebrated by Pope Francis during his tour of the country Catholic bosses in the state asked Kim...
As President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meet for their second summit in Vietnam, a Christian charity says human rights abuses are being ignored. Open Doors, who serve persecuted Christi...
North Korean Christians have warned the lack of food is stunting children's growth in the country. The secretive state determines what food rations its citizens will receive.A source wishing to remai...
Christians in North Korea have told Christian charity Open Doors that they expect to face even more persecution in 2019. This comes as US President Donald Trump announced in his State of the Union Sp...
A Christian who fled North Korea's been telling Premier of the brutal reality of being a believer in his homeland. Kim Joo-il escaped his job as an Army captain in 2007 and now lives in Britain campa...
A North Korean defector has told of her experience in a labour camp that led her to faith in Jesus Christ. Esther, whose name has been changed for safety reasons, was sentenced to a few months detent...
Christians in North Korea were ordered to celebrate the life of their brutal dictator's Gran rather than Christmas this year. Kim Jong Un ordered the 24th and 25th to be days of celebration for the l...
A Northern Irish couple have made the journey from the USA to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary at the church where they were wed, back in 1966. Laurence and Cecelia McCann were married at Dr...
Former prime minister Tony Blair has visited the Holy Land to try and find a way to boost tourism. He was on a trip to Bethlehem which is still torn between Palestine and Israel and currently sufferi...
The Catholic Church in Norway may stop performing civil weddings in a bid to distance itself from the Lutheran Church, which is now performing same-sex marriage Bishop Bernt Eidsvig of Oslo (below), ...
The Catholic Diocese of Oslo, Norway, has admitted changing its attendance figures so it would receive more subsidies from the government. Census figures were inflated "at least a thousand, maybe man...
