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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. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Persecution, Release International, Vietnam
Government Destroys New Church Building in Vietnam
Compass Direct News reports: HO CHI MINH CITY, December 17 – Local government officials in Dak Lak Province this morning made good on their threat to destroy a new wooden church building erected in September by Hmong Christians in Cu Hat village. At 7 a.m. in Cu Dram Commune, Krong Bong district, a large contingent of government officials, police and demolition workers arrived at the site of a Vietnam Good News Mission and Church, razing it by 8:30 a.m. Police wielding electric cattle prods beat back hundreds of distraught Christians who rushed to the site to protect the building. Five injured people were taken away in an emergency vehicle authorities had brought to the scene. The injured included a child who suffered a broken arm and a pregnant woman who fainted after … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Compass Direct, Persecution, Vietnam
Vietnamese Authorities Pressure New Christians to Recant
By Michael Ireland Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM (ANS) – Authorities in Lao Cai Province in Vietnam’s far north are pressuring new Christians among the Hmong minority to recant their faith and to re-establish ancestral altars, according to area church leaders, in violation of Vietnam’s new religion policy. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Assist News Service, Christian, Persecution, Vietnam
Vietnamese Authorities Pressure New Christians to Recant
Compass Direct News reports from Ho Chi Minh City (Sài Gòn): In violation of Vietnam’s new religion policy, authorities in Lao Cai Province in Vietnam’s far north are pressuring new Christians among the Hmong minority to recant their faith and to re-establish ancestral altars, according to area church leaders. Local authorities have warned that on Sunday (Nov. 23) they will come in force to Ban Gia Commune and Lu Siu Tung village, Bac Ha district, where the Christians reside, but they did not say what they would do. When the authorities in Bac Ha district in Vietnam’s Northwest Mountainous Region discovered that villagers had converted to Christianity and discarded their altars, they sent “work teams’ to the area to apply pressure. Earlier this month they sent seven high officials – including Ban Gia … Read entire article »
Filed under: Christian, Compass Direct, Persecution, Vietnam
Minister Murdered by Vietnamese Security Police
By Jeremy Reynalds Correspondent for ASSIST News Service SPARTANBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA ANS – An advocacy group for the Degars, the indigenous people of Central Vietnam, says the group is tormented on an ongoing basis by the Vietnamese government and many other Vietnamese people. Speaking in a news release, the Montagnard Foundation said not only do the Vietnamese authorities publicly beat up and murder Degars, but they abduct them from their villages where they are killed in secret. That, the group said, is what happened to a Christian minister called Mup. … Read entire article »
Filed under: Assist News Service, Christian, Persecution, Vietnam
