persecution of christians in laos

Golden Lampstead Church, a well-known and highly persecuted church in the city of Linfen in Shaanxi province. The church has been under government scrutiny, with one of its pastors serving 7 years in jail. 

On the 9th of Jan,2018-more than a hundred police officers were reported to have surrounded the church, plants explosives around the $2.6m construction building, and demolished it to the ground. The church is the latest church that the government has clamped down, others include house churches. The unregistered churches are the religious gathering which did not register with the government, so as to opt-out of government surveillance.

              

The recent rise in the surging popularity of non-state approved churches may be one of the reasons for the recent demolition of the church of 50,000 congregations. A Catholic church was also blown up last year, and the demolition of these buildings will continue if the new regulations go into effect next month, The new rule gives more power to the communist party in the country.

In a report by the state-run newspaper, the reason for the demolition was that;  "Christian offered his farmland to a local Christian association and they secretly built a church using the cover of building a warehouse."

           

 

                The remains of the demolished church

 

The report claimed that the building violated the building codes.

The church was built via the contribution of the church member,and during construction in Sept. 13, 2009, more than 

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Two villages in central Lao province have threatened to jail Christians who continues to practice Christianity in the province. The authorities of Nhang and Don Keo in Nakai district, Khammouane province had banned Christians activities in the area last month and have also threatened them to stop the reading the Bible or holding any religion ceremonies in the community.

According to locals around the community, village chief named Sone and four police officers arrested and detained a four Christians in the Nakai police district where a police officer named Phonxay threatened to throw them in jail unless they signed a document to denounce their religion or believe, RFA reports.

                   

The officer threatened them to sign the documents in 2 hours, but were later given untill Wednesday to sign the document. The Christians in Nhang are said to be 22, while the Christians in Don Keo are 32. The Christians were reported to be practising since 2013, something the Laos government opposes, as it sees the Christian religion as a threat due to its traditional opposition to communism.

We Don't Know Phonxay

According to the RFA reports, police in Nakai district has denied knowing any police with the name Phonxay, and that they currently are not aware of the current development of Christians getting threatened by any of its officers.

The Laos population is dominated by Buddhist, and Christians is only 1.5 percent of the 7 million. 

The three main churches are Laos include the Roman Catholic church, Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Lao Evangelical Church.

 

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