Featuring: Reverend Tim A. Peters, Founder, Helping Hands Korea Catacombs (HHK)

Thursday, April 1, 2021, 9:00 am – 10:00 am Eastern

Moderated by: Greg Scarlatoiu, Executive Director, HRNK

The event will be on-the-record

The North Korean regime has been classified in the Open Doors World Watch List as the worst state perpetrator of Christian persecution for the past 20 years through 2021. Only when one contemplates the ‘rivals’ for this designation, such as Somalia, Afghanistan, China, Sudan, Yemen, and Uzbekistan, among other world-class persecutors, does the full impact of Pyongyang’s systemic suppression of its Christian population begin to register. The roots of this toxic strain of religious intolerance can be found in the personality and political philosophy of North Korea’s founding father, Kim Il-sung, the current absolute leader’s grandfather. The grandson has shown himself no less vitriolic in his distrust and hatred of followers of the Nazarene. Despite overwhelming odds that could have caused its extinction, the remnant of the North Korean church has endured through over 70 years of relentless persecution. During those decades, silent external partners of goodwill have desperately sought ways to bring hope, encouragement and practical assistance to the beleaguered faithful continually under Caesar's sword. Small pinholes of light in the regime have shed just enough illumination so that those eager to help are able to assist the persecuted. In necessarily general terms, Reverend Peters will describe some of those tactics.