North Korea: ‘Lord! Help!’

World Watch Monitor  |  World
Date posted:  1 Oct 2017
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North Korea: ‘Lord! Help!’

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Hannah Cho* tells her story of faith in God despite horrendous persecution.

After the Korean war, public religion was discouraged. The local church was turned into a school and Hannah remembers that her Christian mother prayed at home while the family kept watch for informants.

The cough signal

‘If anyone came close, we’d cough and she’d stop praying,’ Hannah said. ‘Sometimes my father was annoyed with her and didn’t want her praying in the living room, so she went outside, even when it was snowing.

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