Tatmadaw Invited to ASEAN Summit in Controversial Decision

April 22, 2021 — 04/22/2021 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) – Concern is rising over the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) decision to invite Myanmar’s military junta to a special summit being held on Saturday...

Vu A Sua Family in Vietnam

April 19, 2021 —

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04/19/2021 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – Due to systemic persecution by their government, many Hmong Christians in the Northern Highland of Vietnam have fled their native...

Ethnic Ta Oi Christian Women Persecuted in Vietnam

February 25, 2021 — 02/25/2021 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – On the 30th of January 2021, a group of police officers came to stop a Bible study group in the house of sister Le...

A Reset to Released Vietnamese Pastor’s Life

February 9, 2021 —

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02/09/2021 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – Pastor A Dao in Vietnam was released on August 18, 2020, after serving four...

Vietnamese Christian Imprisoned for Trumped Up Charge Returns Home

January 27, 2021 — 01/27/2021 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – A pastor in northwestern Vietnam told ICC that on January 10, a Christian man named Sung A Khua returned home after serving two and...

Montagnard Christians Asked to Denounce Their Faith

January 24, 2021 — 01/24/2021 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – An ethnic Montagnard in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, along with four other Christians, were recently brought by the police to denounce their faith...

Free, But Never the Same

January 7, 2021 —

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01/07/2021 Washington D.C. (International Christian Concern) – When Pastor A Dao walked through the doors of...

Vietnamese Priest Sues Church Over Church Property

December 11, 2020 — 12/11/2020 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – A priest in southern Vietnam is taking the local government to court, since it fails to recognize the church’s legal ownership of former educational...

Imprisoned Pastor’s Son Asked to Renounce Faith, Faces Death Threats in Vietnam

December 9, 2020 — 12/09/2020 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – Prior to International Human Rights Day on December 10, Radio Free Asia’s (RFA) Vietnamese service spoke to several human rights groups to learn about...

Vietnam Forces Evangelical Church to Cancel Congress

December 3, 2020 — 12/02/2020 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – Vietnam’s largest evangelical church group has called off its congress to elect candidates for the next term of its clergy council, after the Vietnamese...

Vietnamese Catholic Activist Arrived in the U.S. for Asylum

November 26, 2020 — 11/26/2020 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – A Vietnamese Catholic activist, who joined to protest the Nghe An police harassment of students organizing religious activities and was arrested, has arrived in...

Imprisoned Vietnamese Activist Banned from Reading Bible

October 13, 2020 — 10/13/2020 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – Vietnamese activist and veteran Le Dinh Luong, who was arrested on July 24, 2017 for alleged subversion, while serving his 20-year sentence, has been...

Vietnamese Pastor Released After Four Years in Prison

October 5, 2020 — 10/05/2020 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – After spending over four years in prison for promoting religious freedom, a jailed Vietnamese pastor has finally been released in September. According to Alliance...

USCIRF Encourages Vietnam’s Religious Freedom Progress

September 16, 2020 — 09/16/2020 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) issued a press release on September 3rd calling on Vietnam's government to improve religious freedom....

Thien An Monks Reject False Media Accusations

September 2, 2020 — 09/02/2020 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – On August 17, a Vietnamese state-run Radio and Television Station aired a documentary, Some Monks at Thien An Monastery Appropriate Land and Distort the...

Monks Face Extreme Threat from Successful Land Grab

August 25, 2020 — 08/25/2020 Vietnam (International Christian Concern) – Government-led land-grabbers successfully seized part of the monastery's land called Cross Hill in Thừa Thiên Huếprovince. Just two weeks ago, on August 7, a...