SHOCKING: Child Sentenced To Life In Prison For Family's Possession Of A Bible

A new report on international religious freedom released by the U.S. Department of State has revealed that the horrifying oppression and persecution of Christians by the dictatorial government of North Korea has reached a new nightmarish level. The chilling report tells that an entire family, including a two-year-old child, was sentenced to life imprisonment in prison camps for the crime of owning a Holy Bible.

According to the State Dept. report, an organization known as "Korea Future documented cases in which the government targeted family members of persons who had been charged with crimes associated with religion. In certain incidents, this led to the arrests of children as young as two. In some instances, officials arrested entire families. Investigators also documented incidents in which officials forced the spouses of persons sentenced for religious crimes to divorce them."

The report explained, “The campaign to exterminate all Christian adherents and institutions in North Korea has been brutally effective, and continues through the work of the Ministry of State Security, networks of informants that stretch into China, the presence of ‘no-exit’ political prison camps, executions, and an educational and organizational system that deters adherence through schools, workplaces, and neighborhood.” 

 

Prayer alert! According to the latest US State Department’s International Religious Freedom Report, approximately 70,000 Christians are imprisoned in North Korea for their faith. Pray boldness for our dear brothers and sisters, that their faith won't shrink in this darkness. pic.twitter.com/CO1VMCijID

— Global Christian Relief (@GC_Relief) May 31, 2023

Christian Headlines delved into the full detail of the report and found that the family was sentenced to life in 2009, joining the estimated 70,000 Christians who are presently imprisoned in the hostile nation.

Korea Future, a non-profit organization that advocates for human rights in North Korea, added that the government in Pyongyang persecutes "people who practice religious rituals, own religious items, or associate with religious individuals, by subjecting them to arrest, detention, torture, forced labor, deportation or the denial of the right to life," according to Christian Headlines.
 

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The report revealed further that this treatment is not exclusive to Christians and also includes practitioners of local shamanism including months of forced labor or reeducation. One victim told researchers, "[Officials] worked us hard without feeding us properly … I suffered from malnutrition and was sure I would not survive. I kept having diarrhea, even when I only drank water, and I weighed just 35 kilograms [77 pounds]. Today I weigh 60 kilograms [132 pounds], so I was like a skeleton back then."
 

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— World Help (@world_help) May 24, 2023

Open Doors USA told Christian Post, "Being discovered as a Christian is a death sentence in North Korea. If you aren’t killed instantly, you will be taken to a labor camp as a political criminal."

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