Hello Team Blue,
Here is the homework for tonight. Daniel will in class tomorrow to discuss your answers and to plan out more
research. I have included a list of who suggested which questions, but that won’t be
the questions you answer. The questions Daniel and I have assigned are as follows:
- Judah will do questions #8 and #6.
- Alana will answer questions #5 and #1.
- Daniel and I will do questions #2, #3, #4, and #7.
Questions:
- Judah will do questions #8 and #6.
- Alana will answer questions #5 and #1.
- Daniel and I will do questions #2, #3, #4, and #7.
Please comment your answers to these questions on this post as well as making sure it is on your word.pdf ASAP. We all rely on each other to keep a steady pace on this assignment, and we don't want to fall behind.
Questions:
o
Josh
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#1: Why is the government persecuting Christians?
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#2: Were the two parties ever peaceful with one
another?
o
Daniel
§ #3: How many
Christians are there are in North Korea?
§ #4: How do North
Korean Christians worship god, like where do they go to church?
o Alana
§ #5: How are
Christians suffering?
§ #6: What is the
main religion in North Korea?
o Judah
§ #7: How does the
government get an estimate on how many Christians are in North Korea? Do they use
spies, or is it based on the number of Christians killed?
§ #8: How does the
government find Christians that don’t publicly proclaim their faith? Do people
tell on them, or do people accidentally say they are?
-Josh
6 comments:
Answers to questions #5 and #6:
How are Christians suffering? Christians are sent to concentration camps where they are starved, overworked and tortured. North Koreans have a saying: "Whenever two or three people are gathered together, one of them is a spy." This is true even in family settings, as children are taught to spy on their parents from a young age. Therefore, North Korean Christians must be extremely careful with what they say and do, and also how they pray. Whenever a Christian is discovered, the government punishes the entire family. Despite the threat of persecution and heavy social pressure, Christians in North Korea hold firmly onto their faith. Christian and secular analysts estimate that about 30,000 of them are suffering in prison and labour camps.
What is the main religion in North Korea? Primarily Buddhism and Confucianism.
Good work guys, posting our first questions so quickly. We got this!
#2: Yes, for a time the government got along quite well with Christians and even supported it. In the late 19th century. This is because around this time the Korean's previous religion had been destroyed and the government was looking for a religion to satisfy their citizens. From 1880 to 1945 Christianity became very strong in North Korea and the King of Korea himself even supported the protestant missionaries and their schools and hospitals. However, all that changed in 1945 when Communism took over North Korea and most of the Christians fled to south Korea. Since that day, Christianity has been heavily persecuted in North Korea.
#4 Christians in North Korea have many different secret methods of worshipping God in North Korea. For example, Christians gather together in homes near the edge of the forest after midnight. People dig up their Bibles from their yard and then talk with other Christians in barely audible voices lest they be heard. Parents do not share their faith with their young children in case they blurt it out and the whole family then gets arrested. Christians even gather together in prison groups and share the gospel with their fellow prisoners. One woman empowered by The Spirit shared her faith with non-Christians and succeeded in bringing 5 of them to Christ. Additionally, Christians can never meet with each other openly not even in some of the fake churches that the Korean government has set up. For example, one Korean put it like this: they see someone who they know is a Christian, they cannot even speak to them because they could be arrested.
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Questions #6 and #8:
#6. The primary religion in North Korea is atheism. They believe that man is the only god. They are to worship their leader as if he is the supplier of their very life form, that he is the only one who has the power to do anything about anything. If you are caught worshipping another god, especially the God of the Jews, you can be killed or thrown in prison. There are exceptions for gods like Buddha and the Korean shamanistic and syncretic Chondogyo.
#8. Most of the time, the government has soldiers on patrol. if the soldiers find evidence or have reason to believe that a family or individual is worshiping God, they have the authority to search that person's house and if any evidence is found on them worshipping God they can be tortured, thrown in prison, or killed on the spot.
That's ok Judah, check with Daniel in Class
Answers to #3 and #7:
#3: According to Open Doors, there are about 300,000 Christians in N. Korea out of 25,611,000 people.
#7: North Korea has a secret Christian radio station that they get an estimate from. Other then that, the only way we have an estimate is through the refugees there. They report that 1.2% of the population participates in secret religious activities, and that many more are christians but do not risk their necks. Also, about 5.1 of the population witnesses and knows the information about these secret activities.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dougbandow/2016/10/31/north-koreas-war-on-christianity-the-globes-number-one-religious-persecutor/#4f7cb09b56e3
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