Another Year to Celebrate Christmas Behind Doors for Persecuted Lao Christians
12/13/2020 Laos (International Christian Concern) – As many Christians around the world are preparing themselves for the celebration of Christmas, in Buddhist majority Laos, the minority Christians face a difficult choice – if they do not celebrate behind closed doors, trouble might come find them.
In the communist country where practicing Buddhism and animism are the norm, Christians can easily offend their non-Christian neighbors who view Christianity as an alien religion or a tool of western imperialism.
UCA News reports that Christians in Laos are among Southeast Asia’s most persecuted religious minorities. Yet, the outside world has largely ignored their plight, except for a few Christian organizations that continue to aid their body in Christ in Laos and report on the latest atrocities against them.