Police Attack House Church in Vietnam, Leaders Jailed

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Compass Direct News reports

HANOI – Police invaded Sunday service Agape Baptist congregation Vietnam’s Hung Yen Province June 7 beat worshippers, including women, arrested pastor elder.

Christian sources police church leaders separate cells, beaten gang policemen. Pastor Duong Van Tuan house church Hamlet 3, Ong Dinh Commune, Khoai Chau district officers beat tt leave marks: hard blows stomach.

The beatings ce retaliation Pastor Tuan refusing leave police ordered, Christian sources said. church elder we released lr evening.

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

By Dan Wooding, Founder ASSIST Ministries

HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM ANS — close friend Dr. Paul Ai Tran, persecuted Vietnamese Christian leader communist authorities grew frustrated prolific church planting efforts deported fm Vietnam 1999 United States, told ANS Tran held ur “city” arrest Ho Chi Minh City, fy Saigon. Read the rest of this entry »

Video - Persecution in Vietnam

From Release Internatinal, ts special report Vietnam, filmed location. features interviews wives we husbands tortured jailed calling freedom worship return land seized authorities. ex-prisoner paints picture brutality overcoming faith bd bars.

Government Destroys New Church Building in Vietnam

Compass Direct News reports:

HO CHI MINH CITY, December 17 – Local government officials Dak Lak Province morning gd threat destroy wooden church building erected September Hmong Christians Cu Hat village.

At 7 a.m. Cu Dram Commune, Krong Bong district, contingent government officials, police demolition workers arrived site Vietnam News Mission Church, razing 8:30 a.m. Police wielding electric cattle prods beat bk hundreds distraught Christians rushed site protect building.

Five injured people we tn emergency vehicle authorities brought scene. injured included child suffered broken arm pregnant woman fainted ar bg poked stomach electric cattle prod. Villagers fear miscarry.

By day’s badly injured woman bn returned village, authorities wd divulge we was.

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Vietnamese Authorities Pressure New Christians to Recant

By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service

HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM (ANS) - Authorities Lao Cai Province Vietnam’s north pressuring Christians Hmong minority recant faith re-establish ancestral altars, according church leaders, violation Vietnam’s religion policy.

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