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The church they closed
Most of us 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, written into a prime minister’s instruction in February 2005, is the legal hinge on which most of the last twenty-five years of persecution in the highlands turns. This page...
The Evangelical Church and registration
Most of our Protestants belong to congregations the state does not recognize. The largest state-recognized Protestant body 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 named Dega Protestants, a label the state treats as separatism. This page is...
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