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Remembering North Korea's Christian martyrsBy Stephen Evans BBC News, SeoulChristmas is a time of great celebration for the world's two billion or so Christians. In one part of the planet, though, the lights are out. There is not be a flicker of recognition of the festival in North Korea - or not in public. It may be celebrated secretly, particularly as 2016 is the anniversary of a great Christian martyrdom on the banks of the Taedong river in Pyongyang.Nobody knows how many North Koreans celebrate the birth of Christ just over two millennia ago. For them, displays of faith can lead to prison or worse.And nobody knows either who will remember the death 150 years ago of a missionary on the banks of the Taedong river.The Welshman, Robert Jermain Thomas, was one of the big figures who brought Christianity to the Korean peninsula. Befitting his contribution, his death, around the end of August in 1866, has been marked with loud and joyous celebrations in churches in Cardiff and Seoul.But from Pyongyang, where Thomas was martyred, there has not even been a peep of the smallest trumpet.Read More At: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38404012
