08/26/2022 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – On Monday, seven embassies in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi issued a joint statement marking […]
Montagnard Christians Asked to Denounce Their Faith
01/24/2021 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – An ethnic Montagnard in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, along with four other Christians, were recently brought by the police to denounce their faith in front of other villagers.
Rô Da, told Radio Free Asia’s Vietnamese service that on January 15, the police of Ea Lam village and Song Hinh district, Phu Yen province, brought him and four others before a gathering at Pung tribal village for a denouncement session.
About 20 people from the local authorities forced the villagers to come and witness the denunciation session against six people, though one was absent. The five men present were Messrs Nay Y Blang, Nay Y Lới, Ksor Y Blang, Hwing Y Nuk and Rô Da, who are part of the Montagnard Evangelical Church of Christ.
Imprisoned Pastor’s Son Asked to Renounce Faith, Faces Death Threats in Vietnam
12/09/2020 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – Prior to International Human Rights Day on December 10, Radio Free Asia’s (RFA) Vietnamese service spoke to several human rights groups to learn about the erosion of human rights in the country. These groups, including Human Rights Watch, comment that human rights in Vietnam do not improve but instead deteriorate, especially in the context of 2020 with the global economic turmoil and COVID epidemic- 19 raging everywhere.
Among the offenses, the communist regime’s ongoing persecution against Christians, especially those with ethnic minority background, was mentioned. Many Christians are put in jail under trumped up charges for several years, some have been imprisoned and tortured repeatedly.