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The charges against Pastor Bui Van Ba stem from a police raid on a prayer meeting in his home on August 18, 2003. (see https://www.vomcanada.com/vn-2003-09-03.htm). While invading the home, police knocked his ailing wife to the floor. She later fainted with severe chest pains. Believers pleaded with police to let him take his wife to the hospital, but they refused. Instead, they turned on Ba and brutally beat him, hitting his head against the concrete wall. Eventually one of the believers was allowed to take his wife to the hospital, but Ba was taken to the police station where he was chained to a post and beaten. He was released the next day, but remains under house arrest.
While Vietnamese believers are rejoicing that the trial has been postponed, they realize that the trial could resume at any time. They call on Christians around the world to pray with them for justice and religious freedom.
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