{"id":13253,"date":"2024-09-18T10:32:39","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T17:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13253"},"modified":"2024-09-18T10:32:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T17:32:39","slug":"north-korea-a-daring-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13253","title":{"rendered":"North Korea: A Daring Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Source: Christian Freedom International, September 11, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The call came from an old acquaintance. He requested help for five people who had escaped from North Korea. They were hiding in a hut in the mountains and were unable to enter a village due to China\u2019s severe security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I collected clothes, daily necessities, and 15 solar audio Bibles, with the determination to be martyred if I was captured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By the time we reached them, the five people were in the worst condition. For a long time, they had not even washed their faces, let alone showered. They were just waiting to die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One who had tuberculosis held my hand and apologized, saying that she is thankful for being treated as a human being and wanted to hug me but would not because she was contagious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We discovered a way to disguise them to move to another area, and then after showering and changing clothes they were sent to different locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trip was a trial from the beginning. As I was leaving one area, police opened my bag. They confiscated ten audio Bibles. They did not find five [enough so each refugee could have one]. Then they let me go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/christianfreedom.org\/a-daring-rescue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full story<\/a> and (from the same source) <a href=\"https:\/\/christianfreedom.org\/getting-gods-word-to-north-koreans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Getting God\u2019s Word to North Koreans<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Christian Freedom International, September 11, 2024 The call came from an old acquaintance. He requested help for five people who had escaped from North Korea. They were hiding in a hut in the mountains and were unable to enter a village due to China\u2019s severe security. So, I collected clothes, daily necessities, and 15 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=13253\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">North Korea: A Daring Rescue<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13254,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13253\/revisions\/13254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}