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Additionally, notify the Vietnamese tourism minister that you will not be visiting Vietnam until religious rights are honored there: (Mrs.) Vo Thi Than, Director General, Vietnam National Administration of Tourism, 80 Quan Su St., Hoan Kiem Dist., Hanoi, Vietnam (Fax: 011.84.4.9424115).

Pray for registered churches to withstand pressures to compromise their faith, for protection for unregistered churches, and for pastors and others imprisoned for their belief.

— Jeff M. Sellers

For more articles on Vietnam, see Christianity Today's World Report and Yahoo's full coverage.

Previous Christianity Today articles about religious freedom in Vietnam include:

Christmas in Vietnam | A missionary writes about this year's bleak holiday in the Dak Lak Province (Dec. 26, 2002)

Vietnam's Hidden Tragedy | American church leaders manipulated as communists cover up abuse of tribal Christians. (Sept. 20, 2002)

Proposed Repatriation of Vietnamese Tribal Christians May Be Flawed | The government continues to persecute believers while giving a guarantee for the safety of returning refugees. (Jan. 29, 2002)

Empty Legal Rights | What you can do to help persecuted Christians in Vietnam. (Jan. 15, 2002)

Activist Christian Pastor Arrested In Vietnam | Public Security Police have busted up Mennonite services four times this year. (August 24, 2001)

Viet Nam Protestants Call Conference 'Miraculous' | But tribal minority Christians fear future persecution. (Feb. 14, 2001)

'We Are Always In Persecution' | Vietnam's Christians are arrested, tortured, and fined, even though the government claims to promote religious freedom. (Jan. 10, 2001)

Vietnam Protestants Call Conference 'Miraculous' | But tribal minority Christians fear future persecution. (Feb. 14, 2001)

Vietnam Jams Hmong Christian Radio Broadcasts | Government tries to curb spread of Protestant Christianity along Chinese border. (Sept. 1, 2000)

Authorities Destroy 'Church' in Vietnam | Crude structure in Ho Chi Minh City slum had been erected only hours earlier. (July 27, 2000)

Christians Targeted in Vietnam's Highlands | Crackdown follows massive anti-government protests. (June 26, 2001)

Napalm Victim Now Agent for Peace | Canadian Christian remembers tearing burning clothes from her flesh. (Feb. 8, 1999)

Jesus Can Still Mean Jail | The plight of Vietnam's 700,000 evangelical Christians. (Nov. 11, 1998)

House Pastors Jailed in New Crackdown | Seven Vietnamese pastors imprisoned. (Jan. 6, 1997)

Previous Bearing the Cross articles include:

China—January 2004

North Korea—July 2003

Indonesia—April 2003

Nigeria—Feb. 2003

Egypt—Dec. 2002

Cuba—Oct. 2002

Turkmenistan—Aug. 2002

India—June 2002

Saudi Arabia—April 2002

Iran—March 2002

Vietnam—January 2002

Pakistan—Nov 2001

Laos—Oct, 2001

North Korea—Aug. 2001

Sudan—June 2001

Indonesia—April 2001

China—March 2001

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April 2004, Vol. 48, No. 4