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The Korean War and the Church
This article covers the losses suffered by Korean Protestantism during the Korean War (1950–1953) and its responses to them. It addresses the changes the war brought to the Korean church, including the deaths of believers and the destruction of churches, refugee flight and relief work, the establishment of the military chaplaincy, and the division of the Presbyterian Church.
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- Ha Yong-joPeople
Ha Yong-jo (1946–2011) was a minister of the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap). He founded Onnuri Church and the Christian publisher Duranno, and he was known for cultural evangelism and for his pastoral vision of an "Acts-style church."
- Kim Ik-duPeople
Kim Ik-du (1874–1950) was a Korean Presbyterian minister and revivalist of the Japanese colonial period. He became widely known for revival meetings that emphasized divine healing, and during the Korean War he was shot and killed by soldiers of the Korean People's Army at Sinchon, in what is now North Korea.
- Moon Joon-kyungPeople
Moon Joon-kyung (1891–1950) was a woman evangelist of the Holiness Church who ministered in the island region of Sinan, South Jeolla Province, Korea. Killed on the island of Jeungdo during the Korean War, she is honored as a martyr and is known as "the mother of island missions."
- World VisionInstitutions
World Vision is an international Christian relief and development nongovernmental organization. It began in 1950, during the Korean War, when the American missionary Bob Pierce and Korean church leaders, including the Rev. Han Kyung-chik, began helping war orphans and widows.
- Sarah BarryPeople
Sarah Barry (born 1930) is a missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS, the Southern Presbyterian Church). In 1961 she co-founded University Bible Fellowship (UBF) in Gwangju, South Korea, with Samuel Lee (Lee Chang-woo), and in 2002 she became the second general director of UBF worldwide.
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