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New religion-control law changes little in Vietnam after 1 year

December 18, 2018 Vietnam

Four families of Hmong Christian believers were attacked by their village chief and other villagers at midnight of March 1, 2018, in a northwest province in Vietnam. A law establishing government regulation of religion is ignored in remote areas of the country, where ethnic minorities continue under heavy persecution. Photo: World Watch Monitor

...Evangelical Christianity among Hmong and other ethnic minorities. Brutal social opposition by family and clan is encouraged and augmented by local civil and police authorities. This, not infrequently, culminates in...

Thailand called to release detained Vietnamese Montagnard refugees

September 3, 2018 Asylum seekers, Cambodia, Children, Hmong, Minorities, Montagnards, Refugees, Religious freedom, Thailand, Vietnam

The Montagnard-people are persecuted because of their faith but getting asylum in neighbouring countries is difficult. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...such as food, shelter, and sanitation are being provided for these Christian children.” Vietnam Meanwhile another Vietnamese ethnic minority group, the Hmong people, also face harassment under the pretext of...

Persecuted Christians celebrate Easter with mixed emotions

April 3, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country Aleppo, Bashar Warda, Catholics, Easter, Erbil, Gaza, Hanoi, Hmong, Indonesia, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Israel, Jakarta, Jerusalem, Ludhiana, Maluku, Marawi, Middle East, Mindanao, Minorities, Philippines, Pope Francis, Prince Charles, Southeast Asia, Syria, Vietnam

Flag of Syria is waving as sign of victory over the destroyed heavily damaged city of Aleppo. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...travelled 160km north-west to Yen Bai Province, where he visited nine parishes, sub-parishes and mission stations. He baptised and administered Confirmation to members of the ethnic minority Hmong people group...

Contrasting freedoms for Vietnam’s Christians

March 27, 2018 Vietnam Evangelical Church of Vietnam, Hmong, Ho Chi Minh City, Maria Tran Thi Nga, Religion Law, Vietnam

...in Christianity is the Hmong people. However they are viewed with distrust by local authorities, who remember that the Hmong sided with the US in the Vietnam War, and there...

‘Vietnam targeting religious followers, whose sole wish is to live their faith in peace’

March 22, 2018 Ahmed Shaheed, Central Highlands, Hmong, Vietnam

Hmong Catholics, Vietnam 2010 (CC/Flickr/[email protected]) The Paris-based Vietnam Committee on Human Rights (VCHR) has expressed “deep concern” over an attack earlier this month on 24 Christians from the Hmong people...

Hmong Christians hospitalised after mob attack in Vietnam’s northwest

March 15, 2018 Vietnam Catholics, Central Highlands, Hmong, Human rights, Vietnam

...authorities about the incident. Injured nose of one of the Hmong victims (World Watch Monitor) Among the one million Hmong in Vietnam, there are an estimated 400,000 Christians – a...

The ‘remarkable religious transformation’ of Vietnam’s Hmong

November 16, 2017 Vietnam Central Highlands, Converts, Hmong, Religion Law, Vietnam

Among the one million Hmong there are now an estimated 400,000 Christians (World Watch Monitor) Christianity started spreading among the Hmong in the highlands of northwest and central Vietnam in...

What are ‘Engines of persecution’?

January 17, 2015

...Bangladesh or the Hmong in Vietnam. Ecclesiastical Arrogance This is where a church tries to impose its version of Christianity on everyone, especially other Christians, and refuses to accept the...

Two steps back?

March 2, 2013 Vietnam Catholics, Central Highlands, Communism, Dien Bien, Hanoi, Hmong, Hoa Binh, Minorities, Nguyen Van Dai, Protestants, Religion Law, Religious freedom, Vietnam

...the new decree, it appears to be a standard requirement. All the while, many Hmong congregations already one or two decades old and affiliated with Evangelical Church Vietnam North, which...

Vietnamese officials destroy two new church buildings

June 27, 2012 Vietnam Churches, Dien Bien, Evangelical Church of Vietnam, Hmong, Vietnam

Vietnamese officials in Muong Cha district, Dien Bien Province, destroyed two new church buildings of ethnic minority Hmong Christians this month and threatened to tear down a third. The Ho...

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