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JMJ

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Please pray for the people of Laos and for the end of communism there and everywhere

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FabrizioParty like it's 1773!

The safest place for me to be is in the center of God's will, and if that is in the line of fire, that's where I'll be-Fr. T. Vakoc

I will continue to pray for these people and all others who are suffering in similar ways.



Mary

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"Those who encounter the Risen Jesus
and entrust themselves docilely to him have nothing to fear.
This is the message that Christians are called to spread
to the very ends of the earth." Benedict XVI

My prayer is offered for the citizens of Laos and for all who are oppressed.

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In Christ,

Jim B

I will consider your position if stated with firm, well-thought-out, quiet reasoning. Hateful diatribe, ad hominem attacks and shouted rhetoric don't impress.

JMJ

LAOS - Christians detained until they renounce faith

http://www.ucanews.com/2010/02/12/48-ch ... deny-faith


Please pray for these persecuted brothers in Christ, for the conversion of their persecutors and for the end of communist tyranny in Laos and wherever it continues unmolested by a cowardly "free world".

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FabrizioParty like it's 1773!

The safest place for me to be is in the center of God's will, and if that is in the line of fire, that's where I'll be-Fr. T. Vakoc

Fabrizio,

Thanks for posting this and other atrocities to our brothers and sisters in the other communists states in Asia. Our prayers for them, with special intentions for their sufferings this Lent.

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Ian DC
Blessed Ever Virgin Mary -- Sanctuary and resting-place of the Blessed Trinity where God dwells in greater and more divine splendour than anywhere else in the universe

This is so sad. About 25 or 30 years ago some friends of mine who were Vietnamese Buddhists who had lived in Laos for years told me that in their opinion that Laos was quite egalitarian in comparison to Vietnam in the fact that rich and/or educated Laotian people often associated with poor and uneducated countrymen of theirs as if they were all just countrymen rather much without class differences. I suppose that this type of perhaps egalitarian society might be somewhat due to the fact that Laos was a largely rural society (and Buddhist instead of Hindu?). I guess from their remarks, that even tho' they were both, husband and wife, native vietnamese, along with all their several children, they would rather have stayed living in Laos, since my friends were also uneducated themselves, if it were not for the Communist conquest of Laos which forced them to flee from Laos to USA. From these sad stories it seems that communism has ironically introduced increased class consciousness and class discrimination, of a different and more deadly type, into Laos. However, if the communism in China and Vietnam is anything at all representative of what has or may have come forth in Laos, in terms of capitalistic mafiosi-istic corruption, I might tend to guess that the communism in Laos too is mainly a cover for grabbing of land, power, money, etc. (BTW is seems that both Vietnam and Communist China are quite tolerant of trafficking of children from Vietnam to China and elsewhere in SE Asia as slaves and sex slaves.) Perhaps this type of situation is in some way not much unlike the persecution of tribal people and dahlits (outcaste) people, not only but esp. converts to Christianity, in India.

So ironic, it seems that often the "believers in progressivism, or in utopianism" become the most brutal. Of course that may perhaps to be expected with the blind believers in "onwards and upwards" becoming totally blind to their own personal fatal disease of "original sin".

I don't know if this has bearing or not but I just recently heard over the air a mention of a claim that Neville Chamberlain was a Unitarian Universalist tending toward this blind faith in "progressivism", "utopianism", which apparently may have made him a ripe stooge to fall for the words of the Fuhrer Adolph Hitler?

The apparent triumph of "onwards and upwards" naive blind "utopianism" and "progressivism" which seems to thrive on "creating/conjuring" ever new convoluted classes of oppressed victims (and new excuses for corruption?) to maintain divisiveness and political party power and funding, esp. on the "liberal" side, but not only there, does not give much cause for confidence and comfort in the future. Perhaps by the grace of God repentance and turning aside from lemming-like jumping off a cliff into the sea will avert disaster before an armageddon?

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David H.

My prayers for the the persecuted Christans and for an end to Communism.

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Rebecca

JMJ

11 Christians arrested in Laos for celebrating Christmas, 3 remain in custody
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/11-Chris ... 20477.html

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FabrizioParty like it's 1773!

The safest place for me to be is in the center of God's will, and if that is in the line of fire, that's where I'll be-Fr. T. Vakoc

JMJ

Food denied to 65 Laotian farmers to force them to renounce Christianity
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Food-den ... 20878.html

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FabrizioParty like it's 1773!

The safest place for me to be is in the center of God's will, and if that is in the line of fire, that's where I'll be-Fr. T. Vakoc

JMJ

Eight Lao Christians in prison for Christmas
http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Eight-La ... 23508.html

As we prepare to celebrate the birth of Our Redeemer and Savior, let's not forget that millions and millions of people around the world do not have the right to do as much or even to have religious items on their persons and to speak freely.

Every time we are tempted to think that the Church should "tone it down" when it comes to the right to live our faith publicly, think of those unsung heroes and martyrs for whom fidelity to Chirst means years in a concentration camp, tortures, death and retaliations on their relatives.

Pray for the people of Laos and for all believers and people of good will oppressed by inhumane ideologies and regimes. Their sacrificial intercession might be all that stands between us and the just wrath of the very God we are about to contemplate in his Incarnation.

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FabrizioParty like it's 1773!

The safest place for me to be is in the center of God's will, and if that is in the line of fire, that's where I'll be-Fr. T. Vakoc

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Ian DC
Blessed Ever Virgin Mary -- Sanctuary and resting-place of the Blessed Trinity where God dwells in greater and more divine splendour than anywhere else in the universe

JMJ

http://www.hrwlrf.net/pages/Official-Cr ... akhet.html
Official Crackdown on Lao Churches Now Spreads to Phin District of Savannakhet

Georgetown University was unavailable for comment.

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FabrizioParty like it's 1773!

The safest place for me to be is in the center of God's will, and if that is in the line of fire, that's where I'll be-Fr. T. Vakoc

Laos is a puppet state controlled by Vietnamese. Vietnamese troops are stationed permanently in Laos. Last year Laos and Vietnamese troops raped and killed four Christian Hmong women in Xieng Khouang province.

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James Daly

"It is the Lord." (Jn 21:7)

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James Daly

"It is the Lord." (Jn 21:7)