Christian Aid Worker Set to be Tried

(CSW) – The Japanese aid worker Mr Noguchi, who is detained in China for helping North Koreans, is due to appear in court in Nanning on Monday 28th June. We would be very grateful if you could pray for him. Other aid workers have been sentenced to years of imprisonment for similar activities and we would be grateful if you could pray that he will not suffer a similar punishment.

Please also pray for the two North Koreans who were arrested with him. One is a woman in her 40s who was born in Japan and taken to North Korea by her mother. The other is a man in his 50s who was born in West Japan and moved to North Korea in the early 1960s. Mr Noguchi initially refused to be released over fear of their welfare and we continue to be concerned over their fate.