World Watch List

Just wanted to let you all know that I have confirmed with Sareth, our Cambodian leader, that we will indeed be visiting a new contact in Vietnam next month when I go. We have to meet him in a public place in Ho Chi Minh City so that we will not draw attention to ourselves too much. It is now illegal to talk about Christianity outside the walls of the “official” church allowed by the government. We are hoping to encourage this man in his desires to reach the military and police in Vietnam.
Open Doors International, an organization that monitors Christian persecution across the world, has just published its Watch List:
“The deplorable situation facing North Korea’s Christians again causes the country to hold first position on the World Watch List. Saudi Arabia is ranked second, followed by Laos and Vietnam. Iran climbed five places, to number five, due to massive arrests of Christian converts, which took place last year. As a result, Turkmenistan moved down one place, to number six, followed by the Maldives. Bhutan, Myanmar and China complete the top 10.
Islam is the majority religion in four of the top 10 countries: Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, Maldives and Iran. Four countries have communist governments: North Korea, Laos, Vietnam and China. Two countries, Bhutan and Myanmar, are Buddhist.”
Vietnam, Laos, and Myanmar are countries that we are trying to establish believing military and police communities in.