{"id":26156,"date":"2013-08-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/prayer\/the-right-to-choose-your-beliefs-480\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T21:56:36","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:56:36","slug":"the-right-to-choose-your-beliefs-480","status":"publish","type":"prayer","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/prayer\/the-right-to-choose-your-beliefs-480\/","title":{"rendered":"The right to choose your beliefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>After Mr Chu became a Christian in 2011, police arrested and beat him on his way back from Bible school. It wasn&#8217;t just him who suffered &#8211; his young nephews were also detained and beaten. All because in parts of Vietnam, local officials are determined to stop the spread of Christianity.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UN urgently needs to investigate the true situation in Vietnam. Professor Heiner Bielefeldt is the UN&#8217;s Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief, and it&#8217;s his job to visit countries around the world to report on whether they allow people to choose and change their religion freely, and worship in peace. We&#8217;re working closely with him as part of our Operation 18 campaign &#8211; a bold venture to ensure freedom of religion is respected around the world. But we know that your prayers are just as vital as our work with the UN, if we&#8217;re going to help Vietnam become a place where no-one has to fear arrest just for going to Bible school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This week please:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Pray for Mr Chu and his walk with God after the trauma of his experiences with the police;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Ask God to protect our partners and contacts within Vietnam, whose work often puts them at risk;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray for Vietnamese churches fighting official pressure as they try to spread the gospel;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Thank God for the work of the Special Rapporteur and the work we&#8217;ve already been able to do with him;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Ask God to change the hearts of the Vietnamese Government so that they will confirm a date for Professor Bielefeldt to visit Vietnam;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray that the Government of Vietnam will cooperate fully with the UN before, during and after the Special Rapporteur&#8217;s visit;<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Pray especially for the Operation 18 campaign on the 18th August &#8211; could you encourage your church to pray too?<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Please add a note in your diary to pray for the Operation 18 campaign on the 18th of every month.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Mr Chu became a Christian in 2011, police arrested and beat him on his way back from Bible school. It wasn&#8221;&#8217;t just him who suffered &#8221;&#8217;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"template":"","regions":[128,136],"class_list":["post-26156","prayer","type-prayer","status-publish","hentry","regions-east-asia","regions-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/prayer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40826,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/prayer\/26156\/revisions\/40826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=26156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}