Vietnam ‘Government Assailants’ Attack Christian Center, Several Detained
By BosNewsLife Asia Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos
HANOI, VIETNAM (BosNewsLife)-- Rights activists say violence against a Christian center and the detention of several believers in southeast Vietnam is the latest in a series of attacks targeting devoted Christians and unregistered churches in the Communist-run nation
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Jailed Pastor Abused in Vietnam After Speaking To US Delegation
By BosNewsLife Asia Service with reporting by Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife
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Vietnam Authorities “Halt” Construction Work On Church Land
By BosNewsLife Asia Service with BosNewsLife Asia Correspondent Santosh Digal reporting from Manila
HANOI, VIETNAM (BosNewsLife)-- Amid protests against reported church destructions, the city of Hanoi has ordered one of its districts to stop construction work on land claimed by the Catholic church, BosNewsLife monitored Thursday, May 7.
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Vietnam Police “Kill” Cristian Farmer Amid Rural Crackdown
By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent BosNewsLife
HANOI, VIETNAM (BosNewsLife)-- Degar Montagnard Christians and other believers in several areas of Vietnam's Central Highlands faced another day of persecution Friday, February 27, after at least one Christian peasant was hacked to death by security forces and an angry mob, missionary workers and a key official told BosNewsLife.
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Vietnam Christian Dissident Released; Evangelist Palau On “Historic” Visit
By BosNewsLife Asia Service
HANOI, VIETNAM (BosNewsLife)-- A Vietnamese Christian lawyer and dissident has
pledged to continue her fight for more democracy in the Comnunist-run Asian nation, after leaving prison where she spent three years for challenging the authorities and advocating a multi-party government, BosNewsLife learned Tuesday, March 30.
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Vietnam Activists Fear New Religious Law
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Catholics Protest Vietnam Sewage Plant On “Church Land”
By Voice of America (VOA) Correspondent Marianne Brown reporting from Hanoi, Vietnam, special to BosNewsLife.
HANOI, VIETNAM (BosNewsLife)-- A tense calm has returned to the streets of Vietnam's capital Hanoi after hundreds of people marched through the center in an ongoing dispute between the state and the Catholic Church over the use of land.
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Vietnam High Lands Christians Attacked; One Church Leader Killed
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Catholics Injured In Vietnam Crackdown On Prayers For Land
By BosNewsLife Asia Service
HO CHI MINH CITY (BosNewsLife)-- A tense calm returned to Vietnam's largest city Friday, August 2, after several people were injured in a violent government crackdown on Catholics praying for the resolution of land disputes, Christian rights activists said.
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Vietnam Pastors Receive Long Prison Terms; Elderly Christian Tortured
By BosNewsLife Asia Service with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos
HANOI, VIETNAM (BosNewsLife)-- Christian rights activists asked Vietnam Monday, November 29, to release pastors who received long prison terms on charges of “undermining national unity."