http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:59:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24374/widow-of-murdered-vietnam-christian-forced-to-hand-over-children http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24374/widow-of-murdered-vietnam-christian-forced-to-hand-over-children#comments Mon, 31 May 2010 12:10:16 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=24374 "H’Nguen, was forced to take her two children, H’Danh and Y-Ly, to the Nhan Hoa Police Station" on May 3 "and told she must sign documents giving custody to the government," said International Christian Concern (ICC), an advocacy group closely monitoring the case.

Her husband, Montagnard Christian K’pa Lot, died in March of torture while being detained for publicly expressing his Christian faith and fighting for religious rights, ICC and other activists said.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/24374/widow-of-murdered-vietnam-christian-forced-to-hand-over-children/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23419/house-church-vietnam http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23419/house-church-vietnam#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:55:41 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=23419 In what religious freedom advocates regarded as a breakthrough in Vietnam, authorities granted rare permission to unregistered house church groups to hold a large, public Easter-related service here last night.

More than 15,000 people gathered at Tao Dan Stadium.

Leaders of the celebration and religious freedom advocates in Vietnam said the event was significant in that unregistered house churches were allowed to hold a large public celebration. They added that authorities must have felt enough pressure to consider the event less harmful than possible negative publicity from denying permission. ]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/23419/house-church-vietnam/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16932/protestant-sects-receive-certificates-of-religious-practice http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16932/protestant-sects-receive-certificates-of-religious-practice#comments Wed, 27 Dec 2006 13:04:52 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16932/protestant-sects-receive-certificates-of-religious-practice http://www.religionnewsblog.com/16932/protestant-sects-receive-certificates-of-religious-practice/feed 0