(Prayer information via OpenDoors) The government views the church with suspicion, seeing Christianity as a foreign influence and Christians as Western agents. A new law introduced at the beginning of 2013 requires all churches to register at a local level, and yet this is made very difficult for them. Youth work and training of church…
By Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra Secretary of State John Kerry’s December trip to Vietnam was meant to improve relations and urge greater protection of human rights in a country that climbed three spots on a list of the world’s worst persecutors of Christians. Kerry attended Mass in Ho Chi Minh City, a move faith-based adviser Shaun…
By Open Doors Communism, deep spiritual allegiance and persecution are all challenges that Christians in Vietnam face. It is a mainly Buddhist country (52.48%), with a population of over 90 million people. Vietnam is ranked #18 on the Open Doors World Watch List, which is three spots up from its ranking in 2013. Though these…
International Christian Concern Police officers attacked a Christian couple in Lào Cai province, Vietnam, last Monday after the couple refused to recant their newly found Christian faith. Police repeatedly struck both the husband and wife until the wife began bleeding, at which point the police halted the beating and released her. The attack came after…