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Viewing articles tagged 'dega protestant'
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The years between, 2005–2022
Between the Easter protests of 2004 and the attacks in Cư Kuin in 2023 there were no mass demonstrations in the highlands, and the world mostly stopped looking. The pressure did not stop. This page records what happened in those years, as far as independent sources let us: the arrests, the deaths in custody, the forced renunciations, the people...
Yang: the spirits and the old religion
Before the missions, every highland people lived among yang: spirits of the rice, the water, the mountain, the forest, the house, the jar and the gong. Most Dega today are Christian. This page describes the old religion as the ethnographers recorded it, how conversion changed it, and how the state now stages parts of it as heritage while punishi...
Our defenders and prisoners
Short records of highland people imprisoned for their faith, their organizing or their testimony, as documented by independent monitors. Each entry gives what the record shows and where it comes from. Many more names are in our prisoner records; this page profiles those whose cases are best documented.
The Evangelical Church and registration
Most Dega Protestants belong to congregations the state does not recognize. The largest state-recognized Protestant church is the Evangelical Church of Vietnam (South), and the choice put to highland house churches for twenty-five years has been the same: join it, or be treated as “Dega Protestants,” a label the state treats as political separat...
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