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"Mr President, once again, I would like to stress the dramatic situation of Christians in Laos and Vietnam. In both countries, the entire structure of the state and the apparatus of repression has been directed at the destruction of Christianity – of both the Catholic Church and Protestant groups.
In Laos, this is the result of a programme of the ruling communist party, which treats Christianity as a religion representing Western imperialism. In Vietnam, what is taking place is being done in contravention of formally existing law. The repression takes a variety of forms: arrests, torture, deprivation of freedom, intimidation and confinement in psychiatric institutions.
Such practices must not be allowed to pass without a strong reaction from European institutions. Although quite a number of people in Europe are fighting Christianity by legal means, it is our obligation, the obligation of all of us, to take action against the barbarity we are witnessing in some of the countries of Asia."@en1
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