According to North Korean Human Rights Information Center DB, as of July 2019, the reported causes of the religious persecutions in North Korea include: engaging in religious activities (714 cases), possessing religious items (326 cases), preaching religion (141 cases), and contacting religious people (63 cases). As for punishments of the religious activities, the lightest penalty-labor training- takes only 2.8% of the total response rate. Be sending correctional camps (corresponding to South Korea prisons) is 10.7%, and the harshest punishment- political prison camps- accounts for 47.9%. Also, only 22.0% of the religious persecution victims in North Korea survive, and the death rate was 17.2%. The majority occupied 60.8% remains unknown (it does not know they are alive or dead).
"I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves (Matthew10:16).
You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved (Matthew10:22)."
Lord, You said that all who desire to live godly in Christ shall suffer persecution, please remember the North Korean Christians imprisoned while worshiping and preaching the Lord.
Even when extreme situations like darkness come, please give them the faith that does not betray you. As promised in the Word, we pray to grant them the glory to salvation through enduring till the end.
We pray in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen!
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