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14th March 2010 |
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Pray for Vietnam
Population 88.5 Million People 270 per sq km Religion 54% Buddhist & 8% Christian
Positives Relative peace under communist rule after many horrific years of war. This has become a popular destination for tourists from Australia and many other countries. A growing, witnessing Church is emerging from years of persecution. A large-scale and sustained turning to God is taking place, in both registered and unregistered churches, and especially among the mountain tribal peoples of central and southern Vietnam. Praise God for preservation and growth. As in China, Communism failed to stamp out the witness, but rather strengthened and spread the flame of the Spirit!
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Prayer needs Constitutional guarantees of religious freedom are meaningless; actual government policy is to control all religious movements, including Buddhism. Persecution of Christians continues to be harsh, and particularly severe for unregistered and ethnic minority churches. Pray for those you may know who work in this country. Repression of all types of freedom continues, but at the same time, social ills are on the rise. Drug addiction, AIDS, prostitution and exploitation of children are all too common. There are two abortions for every live birth, one of the world’s highest rates. Pray that the ideological and moral darkness over this nation might be banished by the light of the gospel.
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