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Laos: Widow forgives husband’s killers
The widow of a murdered church leader in Laos has been telling Release International she forgives her husband’s killers who tried to destroy the church.

'Abigail' says Christianity is spreading in Laos - despite persecution - and Christians are growing strong in the faith. She tells her story in the latest edition of Release's World Update on the Persecuted Church.

The Lao authorities have arrested or detained at least 90 Christians in recent weeks following raids on three provinces.

In one incident, villagers killed a Christian by pouring rice wine down his throat until he drowned. When family members buried him and put a wooden cross on his grave, village officials accused them of ‘practising the rituals of the enemy of the state’.

And instead of tracking down the killers, they rounded up 17 Christian families and locked them up without food for three days to try to force them to renounce their faith.

The authorities have long regarded evangelical Christianity as part of a foreign-backed plot to undermine the communist revolution.

During a recent fact-finding visit to Laos, Release met Abigail - not her real name - whose husband was murdered for his faith.

Abigail is continuing her husband’s work, looking after churches he set up.

He was away for longer than expected on church business when news came that his body had been found. He had been brutally murdered.

Before he left Abigail sensed a dread that something like this could happen. She told Release: “I always said, please don't come home late because you have enemies who will try to kill you.”

“Don't worry,” he replied. “But I said, ‘How can I not worry, because our children are still young? If something happened to you, how would I live?'”

But what she feared most happened. Her husband had been missing for several days before his body was found. To begin with Abigail was distraught: “I was crying, crying, crying and asking God why he took my husband away - he was the one that the church and the people needed more than me.”

Abigail’s children were angry and wanted revenge, but she explained to them: “The punishment is up to God and not up to us.”

Abigail does not know who killed her husband - though she believes the killers' motives were clear - it was to stop the church.

“The reason I believe he was killed was because he served God. The church is growing. We are training and making more Christian disciples and leaders.”

Now Abigail has taken on her husband’s work in caring for the Christians he brought to the Lord.

Christians in Laos face a choice - of worshipping in churches heavily restricted by the state, or going underground. The stakes are high. They risk being seen as enemies of the state, of coming under surveillance, being arrested, imprisoned without trial - and tortured to renounce their faith.

But the harder the authorities stamp on Christianity, the more it spreads. However, the work Abigail’s husband began will continue.

 



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SeeHarHed


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Where did you find this article from?

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http://www.christiantoday.com/article/laos.cracks.down.on.believers.reports.release/21478.htm

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God bless Abigail and Christians.



-- Edited by khonthakek at 16:48, 2008-09-26

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I feel bad about what happen. The government should not do that. It is bad.
At the same time, how is it making Lao people feel if one day our culture will be lost forever.
Imagine there is no temple for us to go to, or nobody speak Lao anymore.
To me, it's about individualism that makes the world great.


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Don't believe what you read sometime. This could be Christian propaganda in which they want to spread thier belief, not only preach but through convertion as well. They will alway paint Christian as the good, and that is exactly what it's in this article.

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So, what you're saying is...  You can't believe anyone? There's no truth to anything? Hhhhmmmm.. I don't know what to think.

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SeeHarHed wrote:

So, what you're saying is...  You can't believe anyone? There's no truth to anything? Hhhhmmmm.. I don't know what to think.

When there is a smoke, there is a fire but since the story is from Christian website itself, I would take it as a grain of salt. In Christianity, the Evangelism is very intrusive and I am sure you know it. It is worse than Catholic or Protestant. These religious freaks are bunch of hypocrites; they only know how to preach and they never practice what they preach. I get turn off every time I listen to them. If I have to choose one of the religions in the world, Buddhism would be the first on my list due its moderation. I am not saying this because of my background is Buddhist, but by reading its five precepts, I know right away is not that strict comparing to other religions.

 



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