China cracks down on S Koreans teaching N Koreans the Bible in China
China is cracking down on a phenomenon that has allowed North Korean defectors to receive Bible teaching across the border in the communist superpower to the south.
In the most recent instance in 2017, thirteen families part of a South Korean missionary group were expelled from the country after it was revealed the government had been tapping their phones and emails since 2014, later having charged them with “being missionaries.”
“What we have seen in the past 18 months to two years has been a steady crackdown on the part of Chinese officials on South Korean missionary activities in China aimed at helping North Koreans,” Eric Foley, CEO of Voice of the Martyrs Korea, told the Christian Post last year....