Lao Officials to Expel More Christian Families from Village

The following is from Compass Direct News and is just another example of the type of persecution Christians are going through all over the world.  Please remember the Christians in Laos today. 

Katin chief says previously expelled Christians will be shot if they return.  

Officials in Katin village, southern Laos have ordered six more Christian families to renounce their faith or face expulsion in early January, advocacy group Human Rights Watch for Lao Religious Freedom (HRWLRF) reported today (Nov. 9).

The Katin chief and the village religious affairs officer, along with local security forces, recently approached the six families with the threat after having expelled 11 Christian families, totaling 48 people, at gunpoint last January. The six families now under threat had become Christians since the January expulsion.

The eviction last January followed months of threats and harassment, including the confiscation of livestock and other property, the detention of 80 men, women and children in a school compound and the death by asphyxiation of a Christian villager. (See www.compassdirect.org, “Lao officials Force Christians from Worship at Gunpoint,” Feb. 8.)  Read More