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UN Report Opens Eyes to Abuse in North Korea VOM_MediaDev February 18, 2014 This week the United Nations released a comprehensive report of human rights abuses inside North Korea , including evidence and first-hand testimony collected from hundreds of North Korean defectors. In graphic detail the report characterizes a regime that draws comparisons with the terrible evils of the Nazis under Adolph Hitler. Humanity at its very worst A UN report accuses North Korea of “unspeakable” human-rights abuses and hints at China’s complicity in some of them Feb 22nd 2014 | BEIJING AND SEOUL | North Koreans bow to the statues of Kim Il Sung (left) and Kim Jong Il o on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang (April 2012) North Korea: Underground University The Voice of the Martyrs Canada Considered the most dangerous place to be a follower of Jesus, North Korea consistently tops the world's human rights watch lists as the most repressive and closed nation on earth. Reports o...

One of the most moving songs that I have heard recently is J.J. Heller’s “What Love Really Means.” In fact, one of the hardest messages in that song for law-abiding Christians to process is the one concerning the murderer who cries in his cell to God, saying, “Oh, Lord, forgive me.  I want to go home” and who hears from Jesus, deep in his heart, “I know you've murdered, I know you've lied. I've watch you suffer all of your life, and now that you're listening, I'll tell you that I will love you for you . . .” I thought of this song when I read the story of Pastor Shi Weihan. Pastor Shi operated a bookstore with permission from the Chinese government. However, he wasn’t given permission to print Bibles as the communist government only allows Amity Press to do so in China. The need for Bibles far exceeds their availability. Pastor Shi had a press with which he and his group printed almost two million Bibles! These were freely distributed throughout the c...