10/40 Window Emergency Prayer Alert- Laos
Prayer Alert-Laos (No. 9 on World Watch List)
MILITANT BUDDHISTS SEEK TO ELIMINATE CHRISTIANITY:
Christians arrested and murdered
Intercessors are needed to stand in the gap for Laos as officials in a remote village in the Asian nation’s central region are reportedly seeking to evict Christians who refuse to renounce their faith…
“Nakoon Christians have been worshiping underground in fear of arrest and imprisonment,” the group said, citing eyewitnesses.
“After learning that the Borikhamxay provincial authorities had recognized Christianity throughout the province in September 2006, the Lao Christians in Nakoon village began to be open in their Christian meetings,” added the LMHR, a French-based Lao exile group…
On March 13, committee members assembled more than 180 people in a bid to pressure the Christians to abandon their religion, the LMHR said. When the Christians refused, they were ordered to leave the village. It published an order to deport 46 people from 10 families.
But the Lao Foreign Ministry has rejected the allegations. Reports are also coming out of Laos that government agents are arresting Christian Believers who are never heard from again.
Two Christian men were taken from their farms in southern Laos and imprisoned. People close to the families said no charges were filed and no information had been released about the health or location of the men.
On January 18, 2007, five police officers burst into the home of one Christian family in north-central Laos and arrested a man. His wife and 12-year-old son were not allowed to speak with him before he was taken away. Efforts to locate him have been unsuccessful. Additionally, other Christians arrested in similar incidents were never found alive…
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