Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsForced Recantations of Faith Continue in Vietnamclipped by: wiccantexanNew Christians in northwest violently compelled to return to ancestor worship.A Vietnamese man violently forced to recant his fledgling Christian faith faces pressure from authorities and clansmen to prove his return to traditional Hmong belief by sacrificing to ancestors next month. Christians Sung A Sinh and Hang A Xa of Trung Phu village were also beaten about the head and back and fined a pig of 16 kilos each so that local authorities could eat, according to the reports. The documents stated that the reason for the mistreatment of the Christians was that they abandoned ?the good and beautiful? traditional Hmong beliefs and practices to follow Protestant Christianity. Following Po?s written recantation, authorities subjected him to further family and clan pressure and ?fines,? as well as rites to satisfy traditional Hmong spirits said to have become upset when he offended them by becoming a Christian. Interview with "Special Forces Soldier who Knew OSAMA !clipped by: leevardiclippers remarks: ........Fascinating insight with NO BIAS....Might SURPRISE YOU ! Al was a professional soldier and one of the originals in Special Forces. As I understand it, he had the only SF unit back in the days of the Vietnam war that was called "the Auger unit". Since then, SF units have been named after states. He shared a number of insights into that conflict including the adventure of walking out of a country that the US wasnt in. Then there was recondo school and time is Saudi Arabia before going to work for a large telecommunications company and spending even more time in the KSA. I interviewed him once - on the record - for a Peoplenomics.com piece (Issue #150, September 5, 2004 in the library if youre a subscriber) since hes the only person I know who had personal dealings with Osama Bin Laden. An extract from that piece: Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |