Source: Open Doors, February 9, 2018<\/p>\n
Vang Atu, a 28-year-old father to two kids, was the first Christian convert in his village in Vietnam. He comes from the Hmong tribe and once worshipped different spirits asking for luck, wealth, good health, and food; but when he surrendered his life to Jesus, he completely abandoned his animistic beliefs.<\/p>\n
As a part of the body of Christ, Vang Atu evangelized to other villagers and saw at least four families come to follow Jesus. His house became their place of worship and fellowship.<\/p>\n
One day in 2016, his house was destroyed by local authorities and villagers. He and his family were then forced to move out from their village.<\/p>\n
This is Vang Atu\u2019s prayer: \u201cPray with me that one day I\u2019ll be able to go back to my hometown and testify to the people about my faith in the Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u00bb Read full story<\/a> and watch a three-minute video.<\/p>\n \u00bb Religious persecution can be very complex, with many roots and manifestations. See, for example, a recent story about tensions between evangelicals and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church<\/a> that led to violence between the two groups (World Watch Monitor).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: Open Doors, February 9, 2018 Vang Atu, a 28-year-old father to two kids, was the first Christian convert in his village in Vietnam. He comes from the Hmong tribe and once worshipped different spirits asking for luck, wealth, good health, and food; but when he surrendered his life to Jesus, he completely abandoned his … Continue reading VIETNAM: Why One Christian Wants to Preach to His Persecutors<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7739,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7738\/revisions\/7739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}