While vilified by the media, President Jung’s group expanded in Korea and internationally.
South Korean Christian groups
The Saga of Providence. 1. Who Is President Jung?
The origins of a Korean new religious movement that, while his founder was in prison for ten years, did not disappear but grew.
Arrested for Listening to Foreign Pastors’ Audio Sermons
In the name of suppressing “foreign religious infiltration,” the Chinese authorities close down churches suspected of ties with abroad, harass believers.
South Korea-Affiliated Churches Investigated, Pastors Arrested
The CCP is stepping up efforts to inspect churches with foreign ties nationwide, registering and surveilling believers to later implement coordinated crackdowns.
South Korean Missionaries Risk Deportation from China
The CCP continues to persecute Christians from abroad under the pretext of “resisting foreign religious infiltration.”
South Korean Christians Systematically Suppressed
Foreign-affiliated churches are continuously harassed: religious venues closed down, believers investigated and prohibited from traveling abroad.
South Korean Church Shut Down in 2012
In China’s Heilongjiang Province, a South Korean church was shut down over six years ago, and its pastor deported back home.
China’s Provinces Intensify Persecution of South Korean Christianity
Two internal documents reveal further plans by the Chinese Communist Party to crack down on South Korean Christianity in China on the grounds of “resisting infiltration.” Bitter Winter received copies of two internal documents from China’s provinces of Heilongjiang...
South Korean Pastor Prohibited From Visiting China
A pastor deported years ago was forced to sign a statement saying he wouldn’t return to China for eight years. In 2016, police officials had conducted a raid at a house church in Jilin’s Meihe city. A South Korean pastor, Kim Ju-hwan, and his wife led the church. At...
Over 100 Officers Storm a South Korean Christian Church
A South Korean-sponsored Christian house church in Heilongjiang's Hegang city was closed down after a raid by the police. On June 17, 2018, more than 100 police officers broke through three gates guarded by believers to raid the meeting place of a South Korean house...