Adam Cathcart

Kevin and Julia Garratt shown with two of their three children, Peter and Hannah.

China is cracking down on the missionary lifeline that helps North Korean refugees

Belief

Missionaries have been spreading the Gospel and doing humanitarian work with North Korean refugees in northeast China for a long time. But detentions of foreign missionaries are rising as Beijing clamps down on Christian activity, trying to help stabilize its North Korean allies.

People attend a mass rally against "U.S. Imperialists" at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang June 25, 2014.

Two Americans went to North Korea as tourists — now they’re both going on trial for ‘hostile acts’

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