by Ksenia Fokina According to the authors of the research, DPRK citizens caught with a Bible, as well as all their family are at best at risk of imprisonment and corrective labor, or in the worst case, the death penalty. Nobody is counting Christian victims in Somalia and Syria.
"Atrocious examples of cruelty towards Christians do not attract the attention of the world community",
Deutsche Welle reports citing the head of Open Doors in Germany, Markus
Rode. In fact it is one of the few open appeals for the European
authorities and clergy representatives to step up their fight against
mass violations of Christians' rights. Roman Lunkin, president of the
Russian Religious and Legal Experts Guild, the leading researcher at the
Institute of Europe at the Russian Academy of Sciences, believes that
in the situation of North Korea any appeals are useless. Nobody can get
anything across to Kim Jong-un. However, that does not mean that one
should not do anything. In addition, despite the danger, Christian
missionaries work underground in North Korea.
"Christians in North Korea,
in China and in Islamic states are not just local Christians. That also
includes missionaries that go to those countries from Europe, the USA,
and from Russia. I would not say that the Western community pay
absolutely no attention to the persecution of Christians in North Korea,
Africa, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq"...Continue reading...
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