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IDOP CANADA – Vietnam 2012. Vietnam. Capital city - Hanoi. Total population: 89 million Buddhists: 52.4% Christians: 9.4 % One of the few communist nations of the 21 st century, freedom of religion remains diminished.

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Vietnam

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  1. IDOP CANADA – Vietnam 2012 Vietnam • Capital city - Hanoi. Total population: 89 million • Buddhists: 52.4% Christians: 9.4 % • One of the few communist nations of the 21st century, freedom of religion remains diminished. • Buddhism is the official religion. Also increasingly, animistic practices and ancestral worship are being encouraged at the local village level, making it difficult for Christians to integrate with the community. • Close to 70 % of the total number of believers in the country are tribal people. This group continues to face the brunt of the government’s restrictions and persecution. • The World Watch List ranking for Vietnam for 2012 is at the 19th position.

  2. IDOP CANADA – Vietnam 2012 Vietnam • Challenges Before Vietnamese Christians • Over the past two years, the communist government has been tightening controls on freedom of expression, association and assembly. Media censorship is increasing, especially on the Internet. • New converts to some Protestant communities face discrimination, intimidation, and pressure to renounce their faith. In a covert way, individuals continue to be imprisoned or detained for religious activity. • The Evangelical church has grown ninefold since 1975, and this has brought about its own challenges, unity being a prime need today. The government uses the lack of unity among different groups to bring about conflict, division and mistrust in the church. • Economic progress is bringing on a new wave of materialism, causing the younger generation to be impacted greatly.

  3. IDOP CANADA – Vietnam 2012 Vietnam • Recent Incidents of Persecution • The communist country has come down heavily up activities deemed “politically dissident” during the first quarter of 2012. This includes prayer meetings of believers meeting in small groups. • In the beginning of 2012, religious officials closed down two Christian churches in an undisclosed district in the northwest of Vietnam, according to a house church pastor known to Open Doors. • Pastors are used to police summons, interrogations and surveillance, and at any time police can intervene and ask for meetings to be stopped. • As a tactic to discourage new churches from mushrooming in tribal villages, authorities are hiring local thugs and hoodlums to beat up pastors. There have been many instances which have taken place this year already.

  4. IDOP CANADA – Vietnam 2012 Vietnam • Prayer Points • Wisdom and discernment for Church leaders and pastors in Vietnam. • Believers to stand firm in their faith and hope in Christ in spite of increased restrictions on their activities. • Ethnic and tribal believers to manifest Christ’s peace, joy and wisdom whenever they are summoned to the police station. • God’s special protection over His people in every part of the country, especially evangelists and pastors who are reaching out with the Gospel and establishing house churches.

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