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The church they closed
Most Dega are Christians, and the state has decided that one form of our Christianity is not a religion at all but a political conspiracy in religious dress. That decision is the legal hinge on which most of the last twenty-five years of persecution in the highlands turns.
Hà Mòn: the Catholic movement the state calls an “evil way”
Hà Mòn is a Catholic movement among Dega in Kon Tum and Gia Lai that grew from reports of the Virgin Mary appearing at a village that was to be flooded for a dam. The state treats it as an “evil way” religion, and since 2010 its followers have been pressed to renounce it, arrested and given long prison sentences.
The highland Catholic Church under the Socialist Republic
The Catholic Church came to the highlands with the Kon Tum mission (see The Kon Tum mission), and today many tens of thousands of Bahnar, Jarai, Sedang and other highlanders are Catholic. After 1975 the church lost most of its priests and has worked since under close control. It has been treated more gently than the house churches, but not left...
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