Vietnam Archives - Pray for the Nations

Hmong, Montagnard Christians in Vietnam “Stateless” Due to Their Faith

03/24/2019 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – Religious minorities in communist Vietnam are facing systematic discrimination due to their faith. UN needs to step in to address the issue, according to a human rights group. At the 40th session of the UN

Vietnamese Government Ignores Displaced Residents in Predominantly Catholic Area

01/20/2019 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – About 100 displaced residents from Loc Hung in Tay Ninh Province have gone to the offices of the city government, the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and the national assembly to submit a petition pleading

Vietnam’s communists intensify control of internet

A group of 17 U.S. lawmakers on July 18 wrote to the Vietnamese government protesting its tough new “cyber-security” laws, that force internet companies such as Facebook and Google to store their users’ data in the country and open offices

Hmong Christians hospitalised after mob attack in Vietnam’s northwest

Four Vietnamese Christian families – 24 people in all – have been attacked by a mob led by the village chief, local sources have revealed to World Watch Monitor. Four people were hospitalised for eight days after the 1 March attack, with

The ‘remarkable religious transformation’ of Vietnam’s Hmong

Christianity started spreading among the Hmong in the highlands of northwest and central Vietnam in the late 1980s through a Hmong-language Christian radio program broadcast from Manila and has led to “a remarkable religious transformation … in the past three

600 Days Have Passed, Vietnamese Christian lawyer Nguyen Van Dai Still Imprisoned

CC Note: On December 16, 2015, 25 police officers arrested Mr. Nguyen Van Dai, a human rights lawyer and well-known defender of religious freedom at his house in Hanoi after searching his house and confiscating several of his belongings. He

Vietnamese Child’s Feet Healed Through Prayer

Two young Vietnamese parents are rejoicing after their crippled 2-year-old daughter miraculously began walking after being prayed for by local missionaries. According to a report from Christian Aid Mission (CAM), the couple, from Vietnam’s Central Highlands, were on their way

Hanoi Students Arrested During Bible Study.

As students gathered for a Bible class in Hanoi, Vietnam, security forces arrived and arrested the assembled believers. On January 23rd, Pastor Nguyen (not his real name) reported that “Last week we were arrested by Hanoi security during our Bible

Pray for Vietnamese Pastor In Solitary Confinement in Prison.

A Lutheran pastor imprisoned in Vietnam has been transferred to another camp and kept in solitary confinement because he stood up for the rights of other prisoners, according to his wife. Tran Thi Hong went to visit her husband, Pastor

Call to Vietnamese Government to Revise new Religious Laws.

Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), together with over 50 civil society organisations and Vietnamese religious groups, has called upon the Vietnamese government to further revise its draft Law on Belief and Religion, to conform with Vietnam’s obligations under international human rights law.