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(Compass Direct News) In violation of Vietnams new religion policy, authorities in Lao Cai Province in Vietnams far north are pressuring new Christians among the Hmong minority to recant their faith and to re-establish ancestral altars, according to area church leaders.

Local authorities have warned that they will come in force to Ban Gia Commune and Lu Siu Tung village, Bac Ha district, where the Christians reside, but they did not say what they would do. When the authorities in Bac Ha district in Vietnams Northwest Mountainous Region discovered that villagers had converted to Christianity and discarded their altars, they sent work teams to the area to apply pressure.

(In November) they sent seven high officials to try to convince the converts that the government considered becoming a Christian a very serious offense.

Christian leaders in the area said threats included being cut off from any government services. When this failed to deter the new Christians, they said, the officials threatened to drive the Christians from their homes and fields, harm them physically and put them in prison.