Christian Personal Checks

Montagnard Christian Beaten to Death in Vietnam

By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries

PLEIKU CITY, VIETNAM (ANS) — International Christian Concern (ICC), Christian human rights group, says that it has discovered that an imprisoned Montagnard Christian died in Vietnam on March 11, 2010, from internal bleeding after a “long period of abuse and torture.”

ICC told the ASSIST News Service (ANS) that K’pa >>>Continue reading >>>

Vietnamese Authorities Raid House Churches and Threaten Attendees

Compass Direct News reports

HANOI – Local authorities in Vietnam have balked at registering house churches, contributing to a recent uptick in sometimes violent harassment of congregations.

Four police officers and two government officials broke up the Sunday morning worship service of a house church in Tran Phu Commune in Hanoi on July 26, announcing that it >>>Continue reading >>>

Police Attack House Church in Vietnam, Leaders Jailed

Compass Direct News reports

HANOI – Police invaded the Sunday service of the Agape Baptist congregation in Vietnam’s Hung Yen Province on June 7 and beat worshippers, including women, and arrested a pastor and an elder.

Christian sources said police put the two church leaders into separate cells, and each man was beaten by a gang of >>>Continue reading >>>

American being held in Ho Chi Minh City for sharing the Gospel of Jesus – Again

By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries

HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM ANS — A close friend of Dr. Paul Ai Tran, a much persecuted Vietnamese Christian leader whom the communist authorities grew so frustrated with because of his prolific church planting efforts that they deported him from Vietnam in 1999 to the United States, has >>>Continue reading >>>

Video – Persecution in Vietnam

From Release Internatinal, this special report from Vietnam, filmed on location. It features interviews with two wives whose husbands have been tortured and jailed for calling for freedom of worship and the return of land seized by the authorities. An ex-prisoner also paints a picture of brutality and overcoming faith behind bars.