SDA Church Receives Certificate of Religious Practice in Viet Nam

[Key Guy]

Full Text: http://www.thanhniennews.com/politics/?catid=1&newsid=23541

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Two large Protestant sects in Ho Chi Minh City - the Vietnam Seventh-Day Adventist Church and the Vietnam Grace Baptist Church - have officially received certificates of religious practice.

The certificates were handed over to the sects' dignitaries by Nguyen Thanh Xuan, Vice Chairman of the Government Committee for Religious Affairs, who also took the opportunity to wish them a merry Christmas at a ceremony Saturday.

Xuan affirmed that the Vietnam Seventh-Day Adventist Church and the Vietnam Grace Baptist Church are provided with all legitimate rights as well as favorable conditions for performing religious practice, printing and publishing prayer books, building or upgrading worship places and organizing seminars and religious events.

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

How cool!!!

Almost missed this story....

[Key Guy]

According to a Mission Spotlight report that we saw over the weekend, there may be as many as 400,000+ Adventists worshiping and studying in Nam without being officially affiliated with the church there!