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Billy Graham’s 1973 crusade in Seoul, South Korea propelled the fast-industrializing nation into an era of explosive evangelical growth. Since then, the peninsular democracy, once a Buddhist stronghold, has become a hub for evangelicalism and the world’s second-largest missionary-sending nation. Still, the nation exists along the most heavily fortified border in the world, exposed to the nuclear brandishing of its northern neighbor and the pull of a profoundly atheistic working class, but it remains a stabilizing force in the region and a powerful launching point for the gospel in Asia. It is now the second only to the U.S. in sending missionaries abroad.
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Learning to Forgive the Country That Oppressed Mine
On Korea’s 80th Liberation Day, I exhort fellow evangelicals to view Korea and Japan’s relationship through one of Jesus’ parables.
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Christian Groups Perplexed, Wary After Korea Bible Incident
South Korea detained six Americans trying to send rice and Bibles by sea to North Korea.
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Evangelical Fault Lines Revealed in South Korean Election
Some Christians are troubled by politicians’ anti-Communist rhetoric. Others are preoccupied with it.
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Died: Kim Shin-jo, North Korean Commando Turned South Korean Pastor
“I came to kill the president, but God chose to save me.”
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Evangelical Divide Widens After South Korean President’s Ouster
Several Christians don’t see reconciliation as a possibility after the political saga.
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‘Revelations’ Is a Torrid Melodrama
But the South Korean thriller, now streaming on Netflix, also tells a sober truth.
The Korean Evangelicals Who Want Their President Back in Power
At a recent rally, pro-Yoon Christians decried Communist infiltration and adopted MAGA rhetoric.
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Canadian Pastors Struggle to Address Assisted Death
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