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The Law on Belief and Religion (2018)
Vietnam’s Law on Belief and Religion came into force on January 1, 2018. It makes worship lawful only through a registered, state-approved organization. For Dega house churches, which have never been allowed to register as themselves, it turned an old practice into statute. The UN Human Rights Committee has found that it “unduly restricts” freed...
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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