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Cu Kuin, June 2023 — and the trial that followed
At about half past midnight on Sunday, June 11, 2023, two groups of armed men attacked the commune headquarters at Ea Tieu and Ea Ktur in Cu Kuin district, Dak Lak. Nine people were killed: four police officers, two commune officials, and three civilians whose names have never been published. We do not defend that attack and nothing on this page...
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 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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