(Morning Star News) – The government of Vietnam has denied the Evangelical Church of Vietnam (South) permission to hold its scheduled bi-annual Clergy Assembly, according to the Bureau of Religious Affairs. After the ECVN(S) announced on Nov. 25 that it was “postponing” the assembly scheduled for Feb. 1-3, 2021 because the government had denied permission, […]
Vietnam Denies Permission for ECVN(S) to Hold Clergy Assembly
Country’s largest evangelical body forced to ‘postpone’ conference.
December 2, 2020 By - 2 Comments
Christian Rights Activists in Vietnam Charged with Serious ‘Crimes’
Officials accuse advocates of seeking to 'overthrow' government.
August 11, 2017 By - Leave a Comment
(Morning Star News) – After 19 long months of investigative detention following his Dec. 16, 2015 arrest, renowned human rights attorney Nguyen Van Dai was finally charged with a crime on July 30. Vietnamese authorities charged Dai, 35-year-old legal associate Le Thu Ha and four other human rights activists, including Pastor Nguyen Trung Ton, 45, […]
Persecuted Rights Advocates in Vietnam Seek Help from World’s Democracies
Beatings, prison also constitute an attack on liberty.
June 13, 2016 By - Leave a Comment
(Morning Star News) – In 2006, the U.S. State Department removed Vietnam from its list of Countries of Particular Concern, citing the release of religious prisoners and the easing of religious restrictions. Two months later, the United States granted Vietnam permanent normal trade status, paving the way for Vietnam to join the World Trade Organization […]
‘Accident’ Kills Evangelical Pastor, New Christian in Vietnam
Wife of pastor, church elder critically injured.
May 26, 2016 By - Leave a Comment
VINH, Vietnam (Morning Star News) – On the evening of May 5, pastor Dang Ba Nham, his wife, and a church elder were praying on a roadside with a woman who had recently converted to Christianity in this city on the north central coast of Vietnam. They stood in front of the property of the new […]
Five Months of Attacks on Mennonite Church in Vietnam Prompt SOS
Christians harassed at center, homes and workplaces.
November 14, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
(Morning Star News) – Police in Vietnam on Wednesday (Nov. 12) employed thugs wielding hammers and metal cutters to ransack a church center and drag away nine Christians, who were then charged with not having proper papers – documents officials had confiscated from them in previous raids. The toughs – accompanied this time, inexplicably, […]
Christians in Vietnam Church Center Beaten, Locked Up in Massive Raid
Authorities show brazen disregard for law, religious rights.
June 24, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
(Morning Star News) – Blaring police loudspeakers awoke Bible school students at a Mennonite church center in southern Vietnam at about 11 p.m. the night of June 9, a prelude to a night of violence and detention that would seriously injure 20 people. Police called for the owner of the compound in Binh Duong Province […]
Authorities in Vietnam Incite Villagers to Attack Christian Converts
Ethnic minorities targeted in rural areas.
April 15, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
(Morning Star News) – Inciting social hostility appears to have become a key way government officials in rural Vietnam try to contain, or at least slow, the growth of Christianity among ethnic minorities, sources said. Ethnic Hmong Christians were the targets of two incidents the past two months in Vietnam’s northwest. Village officials in Son […]
Morning Star News’ Top 10 Persecution Stories of 2013
In Nigeria, terrorists weren’t the only ones terrorizing Christians.
January 10, 2014 By - Leave a Comment
(Morning Star News) – Last year Egypt saw its greatest level of attacks on Christians; more Christians were killed in Syria’s civil war than anywhere else; and an Islamist rebel take-over in the Central African Republic brought new atrocities to the historically unstable country. But where political instability and civil war were not contributing factors, […]
Vietnam Inflicts Massive Official Force on Catholic Demonstrators
Dozens seriously injured in protest against arrest of two Christians.
September 9, 2013 By - Leave a Comment
LOS ANGELES (Morning Star News) – An estimated 40 people on Vietnam’s north-central coast were seriously injured after authorities on Wednesday (Sept. 4) broke up a protest over the arrest and detention without charges of two Catholics. Several of those injured were in life-threatening condition after hundreds of police and militia with tear gas, batons and […]
After Persecution for Faith, a Rare Religious Rights Success in Vietnam
Christian villagers given new land, farms.
June 27, 2013 By - Leave a Comment
(Morning Star News) – Vietnamese authorities in Kontum Province this month resettled four severely persecuted ethnic Sedang Christian families on new land not far from where their homes and farms had been destroyed last February. This is a rare, positive government response to persecution and an important step in the struggle for religious liberty – […]