When local missionaries in Laos shared the Gospel with a woman running a small business a little over a year ago, they had no idea she would have such spiritual impact – enough to draw the ire of a local communist official.
Everyone in Tuan’s* village in Vietnam sacrificed to the spirits and gods of their ancestors, but at a friend’s house in a village a four-hour walk away, he heard the Gospel and put his faith in Christ.
Fifteen years after a Vietnamese ordinance promised freedom of religion, a new Christian dares not speak of Christ in his own village, while another receives a machete blow to the face for his faith.