Execution of 33 People for Talking With Christian Missionary to Start 500 Churches

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un Reportedly Orders Execution of 33 People for Talking With Christian Missionary to Start 500 Churches
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un presides over a plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea on March 31, 2013. North Korea’s supreme leader, Kim Jong Un has reportedly ordered the execution of 33 people for converting to Christianity and receiving money from a South Korean Baptist missionary to start 500 underground churches.

We Christians live in fear in Syria
Today, the first Sunday of Lent, will see churches crowded across the globe. But here in Syria, where St Paul found his faith, many churches stand empty, targets for bombardment and desecration. …Until the war began, Syria was one of the last remaining strongholds for Christianity in the Middle East…now our faith is under mortal threat, in danger of being driven into extinction…