On February 21 a group of officials travelled to Kengweng village and conducted a seminar entitled ‘Tricks of the Enemy.’ Officials and villagers of Kengweng were asked to join the seminar. At the end of the seminar on February 22 officials summarized the teaching sessions and ordered the confiscation of Kengweng church building and prohibited Christians from using it, which went into effect immediately. The officials banned Christians from any worship gathering anywhere in the village. Any future worship gathering must be approved by authorities. The confiscation of Kengweng church took place in less than two months after officials confiscated Nadaeng church in the same district. The church began in 1972 with two Christian Lao families. In 1975 Christians constructed the building and have used it for worship ever since. The village has 25 Christian families, consisting of 178 individual believers.

Pray: God’s protection for the thirty churches throughout Savannakhet province, pray also for religious freedom to continue to flourish according to the Lao constitution. (Ps.27:4)

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