Two-year-old boy and his parents sentenced to life in prison for having a Bible in North Korea

A two-year-old boy and his parents were sentenced to life in prison after authorities caught them with a Bible in their possession in North Korea.

And report The US State Department's International Religious Freedom Report for 2022 revealed that the entire family, including the two-year-old boy, was sentenced to life in prison in a political prison camp in 2009.

Christians who have been imprisoned in these camps have described terrible conditions and various forms of physical abuse.

The text stated that the Ministry of State Security is responsible for 90% of the documented human rights abuses of both followers of shamanism and Christians.

North Korean Christians caught with a Bible face the death penalty, and their family members, including children, are sentenced to life in prison.

The State Department, citing a report by Korea Future, a nonprofit organization that "works to expedite justice and support accountability" in North Korea, says the North Korean government persecutes people who engage in religious practices, possess religious items, have contact with religious people, or share religious beliefs.

Those persecuted may be arrested, detained, forced to work, tortured, deprived of a fair trial, deported, deprived of the right to life or subjected to sexual violence.

In December 2021, Korea Future published a report documenting the abuse of religious freedom against women in North Korea.

Based on interviews with 151 Christian women, she concluded that the most common forms of abuse were arbitrary detention, torture, deportation, forced labor, and sexual violence.

The information maintains that in countries with communist doctrine, mainly in the government of Kim Jong-Un, It is where Christians suffer the most abuse.

Life for Christians in North Korea was described as a "constant simmer of pressure; capture or death are just one mistake away."

In that country, parents often hide their faith from their children and worship is carried out "as secretly as possible."

A prisoner who was released in 2020 said authorities subjected Christians to the harshest treatment, once forcing them to stand for 40 days straight, causing inmates to lose the ability to sit.

Christians are considered a lower rung in North Korean society and are constantly "vulnerable and in danger," according to the report.