North Korea: Christians are the most targeted among faith groups
A groundbreaking new study entitled “Persecuting Faith” has found that Christianity is the most persecuted faith in secretive North Korea, Christianity Today reports. Drawing on the testimonies of 117 defectors, the 2020 report was published by the Korea Future Initiative (KFI) in the hope it will inform any future human rights sanctions applied to North Korea by Western countries.
In its report, KFI cross-references known data with testimony about 273 victims who experienced persecution for their faith in North Korea between 1990 and 2019, CT says. The study found that 80 percent (215) of the victims were Christians. Almost all the other victims (56) were followers of Shamanism, the North Korean folk religion. Women and girls were found to represent 60 percent of the victims overall....