Reverend Y Hin Nie, Research, Study and an Advocacy:
To all the World leaders of Democracy and Religious Freedoms;
To all the Churches around the World;
Request!..... to support the Montagnards Christian currently facing in Central Highland of Vietnam
Seeking Truly Religious Freedom from Montagnards Christian Beliefs is Trinity God’s, Jesus Christ Our Savior and Holy Spirits
(Quotes from Original)
(Ministry Of Foreign Affairs – Central Highlands Province facilities operation of Protestants….)
DEVELOPMENT PLAN EXCLUSIVELY FOR MONTAGNARDS FOR BETTER LIVING from 2006-2010
(Copy on September 20, 2007)
In Vietnamese
1.paragraph: Theo su cong-bo cua Nha nuoc Cong-san Vietnam, se dao-tao 21,811 Muc-su nham di cưu giup cac tinh, Huyen, va Xa thuoc dong-bao Dan-toc sinh-song. Se di truyen, giang dao cho den khi ho nhan lay mot Duc-tin va bat-buoc dong-bao dan-toc phai theo dao Tin-lanh theo duong loi co-cau cua cong san, duoi su lanh-dao cua dang, quan-ly cua Nha-nuoc, giao-dan lam chu y-nghia la: Truoc het la phai tho-phuong dang, theo su chi dao cua Nha-nuoc, khong duoc dat Chua la tren het.
In translations
THE MONTAGNARDS PROTESTANT CHRISTIAN BELIEFS IN GOD
According Ten Commandments. (Exodus 20:3-5)
The Ten Commandments (Deuteronomy 5:1-22) and God spoke all Word and saying:
Verse 3. You shall not no other God before Me.
Verse 4. You shall make yourself a carved image any likeness of any things that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Verse 5. You should not bow-down to them. For I am, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the Father upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.
Verse 6. but shown mercy to thousand, to those who loved Me and keep my Commandments.
II. The Beliefs.
1. Believing that the bible total of 66 books, 39 Old Testaments; and 27 New Testaments. It contains the Word Of God, which hold the only proclaim God teaching (I Timothy 3:16; Hebrew 4:12; 2 Peter 1:21).
* Therefore any Church activities, worshiping and self proclamation of Faith (beliefs) that are not according to the bibles, is considering is humanly doctrine.
2. Believing that the Trinity created the Church, "...I will built my Church..." (Mathew 16:18). Also, the church is informed from the group of people who "JESUS CHRIST BOUGHT HIS-OWN BLƠOD". (Acts 20:28) so that, He called the church as "Church Of Living God" (I Timothy 3:15).
* Therefore, a church does not need any authority, recognition or ordination to calling a church. (Church only received one's time (IRS) permission and protection by the Laws of Non-Profit Organization by For-faith base Organization).
3. Believing the Holding a position in the Church is chosen, and appointed by God. (John 15:16)
4. "It was who some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors or teachers. (Ephesians 4:11), the churches can only recognition a holding position close, voting or Churches Committee approval (Acts 1:23-24; I Timothy 4:14).
*Any outside interfering is against the bibles teaching.
5. Believing that, the church exiting is to "witness about God". Responsibility of witnessing to the end of the earth (Acts 1:8) Preach the Living Word of God either in the season or out of season (2 Timothy 4:2). A believer need to obey God rather then Men (Acts 5: 29).
*Then, and act permission witnessing does not require permission.
6. Believing, that any believer can call "GOD" as Father {Luke 12:32; John 20:17; Romans 8:5; Galatians 4:6). Relationship between believers as "Brother and Sister in Christ". (Galatians 6:10). And God will be ashamed to be call their God (Hebrew 11:16). Since, the Faith, all languages, and skin colors, genders have become a people of God ( I Peter 2:10). It is very important for churches to maintain relation ship to "carrier other burden" (Galatians 6:2).
We believe U.N and U.S and Free-World leaders included the Religious Leaders and Churches around the World must have a road map for Peace, Freedom and inform Democracy to Vietnam.
We must not allow the yoke of persecution for these Christians to continue.
We must stand with one voice, one heart, one task-working together to save the Montagnards and Vietnamese Christianity in Vietnam.
Thank you for the privilege and honor to speak freely. Thank you for remembering the Montagnards people and taking a stand for our survival. May God bless the you who are being sacrificed for Gospel of Jesus Christ and all World Leaders.
Respectfully Yours
Reverend Y Hin Nie, Pastor
International Religious Freedom Report 2003
Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor
Both the Constitution and government decrees provide for freedom of worship; however, the Government continued to restrict significantly those publicly organized activities of religious groups that were not recognized by the Government or that it declared to be at variance with state laws and policies. Although some non-recognized groups faced relatively few restrictions in practice, their status remained technically illegal. The Government generally allowed persons to practice individual worship in the religion of their choice, and participation in religious activities throughout the country continued to grow significantly. However, strict restrictions on the hierarchies and clergy of religious groups remained in place, and the Government maintained supervisory control of the recognized religions, in part because the Communist Party (CPV) fears that not only organized religion but any organized group outside its control or supervision may weaken its authority and influence by serving as political, social, and spiritual alternatives to the authority of the central Government.
The CPV moved more formally to recognize and more fully to support the role of "legal" religious activity in society, but at the same time, citing the overriding importance of "national unity," asserted more explicitly its control over religious groups. Religious groups faced difficulties in training and ordaining clergy, and some restrictions in conducting educational and humanitarian activities. Religious figures encountered the greatest restrictions on their activities when they engaged in activities that the CPV perceived as political activism and a challenge to its rule. There have been credible reports since 1999 that officials pressured many Hmong and other ethnic minority Protestants in several northwestern provinces as well as many Montagnards in several Central Highland provinces to renounce their faith. Local police appeared also to have attempted to coerce some Protestants in Khanh Hoa province to abandon their faith during 2002. The penal code, as amended in 1997, established penalties for offenses that are defined only vaguely, including "attempting to undermine national unity" by promoting "division between religious believers and non-believers." In some cases, particularly involving Hmong and Montagnard Protestants and Hoa Hao followers, when authorities charged persons with practicing religion illegally, they used Article 258 of the Penal Code that allowed for jail terms of up to 3 years for "abus(ing) the rights to freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of belief, religion, assembly, association and other democratic freedoms to infringe upon the interests of the State." There were reports that officials fabricated evidence, and that some of the provisions of the law used to convict religious prisoners contradicted international instruments such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant for Civil and Political Rights that Vietnam has ratified. According to credible reports, the police arbitrarily detained and sometimes beat religious believers, particularly in the mountainous ethnic minority areas. Police abuses of unrecognized Protestants in the Central Highlands in part were related to the Dega independence movement actively espoused by some groups that identify themselves as Protestants.
The Government controlled the administrative process leading to the creation of official organizations for the major sanctioned religions, including the naming of their officers. In some cases, (most notably with Hoa Hao, Cao Dai, Buddhist, and Protestant followers), some former leaders of the unofficial pre-1975 organizations, as well as many believers, rejected the official organizations.
While there were some improvements in the status of respect for religious freedom in the country during the period covered by this report, the situation remained poor or worsened for many ethnic minority Protestants in the Central Highlands and Northwest Highlands. Official government recognition is required for all religious groups (as well as for social organizations) to operate legally; those without official status, especially certain sects and denominations of Buddhists, Protestants, Hoa Hao, and others, operated illegally. Oversight of recognized religions and harassment of unrecognized religious followers varied from locality to locality, often as a result of varying local interpretations of national policy. These restrictions were particularly harsh in the Central Highlands, the Northwest Highlands, and some other, mostly border, provinces during the period covered by this report, although the numbers of religious believers in those locations appears nonetheless to continue to grow. Religious practice and observance was generally less restricted in other parts of the country. During the period covered by this report, some members of unrecognized religious groups were beaten, arrested, and/or detained by the authorities. There were unverifiable reports that between one and seven ethnic minority Protestants died in police custody or died as a result of beatings during the period covered by this report. The Government confirmed the death of only one, but stated that it was due to natural causes. In April 2001, the Government officially recognized the Southern Evangelical Church of Vietnam (SECV). The Government also recognized some additional SECV congregations during the period covered by this report. However, the SECV complained that the Government forced over 400 congregations in the Central Highlands that were affiliated with the SECV's underground predecessor to disband since 2001. The Government also reportedly destroyed or forced the demolition of a number of buildings used for worship in the Central Highlands. Since ethnic unrest in February 2001 in the Central Highlands provinces of Gia Lai and Dak Lak, the Government has taken action against Protestant ethnic minorities whom it suspected of participating in unauthorized political activities. Many of these Protestant ethnic minorities, however, did not belong to recognized denominations, and were not protesting for religious reasons, but rather were protesting against the loss of traditional homelands to recent migrants, mostly ethnic Vietnamese, and abusive police treatment in the provinces. The authorities detained several Protestant leaders during the reporting period and security forces harassed some local Christians. Ethnic minority Protestants reportedly continued to be forced or pressured to recant their faith, especially those suspected of belonging to the Dega movement, which advocated political autonomy for the region. Foreign diplomats visited the Central and Northwest Highlands several times during the period covered by this report, although the provinces continued to provide "escorts" and plainclothes "security." The Government continued to restrict or supervise closely access to these provinces by diplomats, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), journalists, and other foreigners, making it difficult to verify conditions in those areas. In a few areas, police routinely questioned persons on account of their religious views and arbitrarily detained some religious believers whose activities were deemed to constitute illegal gatherings or other violations of criminal law. Local officials occasionally broke up unsanctioned religious meetings, apparently using a noxious gas on one such occasion, and arbitrarily subjected groups of Protestant Christians who were worshipping in house churches in ethnic minority areas to detention and harassment. Authorities also imprisoned persons under article 258 of the Penal Code for “using religion to infringe upon the interests of the State.”
The scriptures of bibles ".....Suddenly a light shown from heaven. Then he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him., "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?. And He said, "Who are you Lord? Then the Lord said to him:" I am Jesus whom you are persecuting, It is hard for you to kick against the goads". So he, trembling astonished, said, Lord, what do you want me to do? Then the Lord said to him, "arise and go to in to city, and you will be told what you must do". Acts 9:4-6
I believed, Today God, Jesus Christ Our saviors, Lord can change the Hanoi heart too. Are you willing to join with Me and pray for Hanoi. God said in Mathew 18:19.."Again I say to you, if two of You agree on earth concerning any things that they ask. it will be done for them by My Father in heaven. God can move the mountain and jump it's into ocean, it wills be done by the faith of the Grace and mercy of God through you and I my friend.
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