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In February, sustained night-time attacks by "villagers with the hand of the government behind them" in Vietnam's Central Highlands destroyed the homes and thousands of coffee plants of ethnic Sedang Christians. Eventually four families were forced to flee for their lives.
Newly converted Christians in Vietnam's Central Highlands were terrorized last week – their homes and personal property badly damaged or destroyed in four consecutive night raids, and some of the faithful seriously injured from beatings in broad daylight.
Protestant Christians and leaders of other faiths in Vietnam are criticizing a new decree on religion that went into effect this year as a significant step backward, with one Christian activist saying it could put an end to the house-church movement.
Officials in Vietnam's Muong Cha district, Dien Bien Province, destroyed two new church buildings of ethnic minority Hmong Christians this month and threatened to tear down a third.