"VIETNAM: Faithful defy government orders.

"Prayer Groups in Home Continue..."



From: The Catholic World Report, November 2010.

"An estimated 4,000 Vietnamese Catholics in three northwestern provinces are defying local government bans on public religious activities and are gathering to pray in homes.

"[S]aid Joseph Nguyen Van Tien, a father of five who has been interrogated several times by police: I am very happy that 120 local Catholics now gather regularly at my home on Sundays to pray. We fear nothing because we gather to pray for ourselves to live better lives and for our relatives on their death anniversaries..."

Just like Catholic Christians did so many centuries ago -- don't believe it? Check it out in ACTS.