Source: Mission Network News, September 17, 2013
According to a report from the Human Rights Watch for Lao Religious Freedom (HRWLRF), on August 30 the leaders of Nongdaeng village (a rural community in Central Laos) summoned representatives of 11 Christian families to the government headquarters building for an official meeting concerning religious affairs in the village.
During the meeting, officials ordered all 11 families – comprising 50 men, women, and children – to recant their Christian faith and return to their village’s traditional animist religion.
“They charged these Lao Christians with believing the religion of a foreign Western power, which is considered destructive to the Lao nation,” stated HRWLRF. “Officials expressed their intention that no Christian faith can be adhered to or practiced in Nongdaeng.”
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