HUNG YEN, Vietnam — Police invaded the Sunday service of the Agape Baptist congregation in Vietnam’s Hung Yen province June 7, beating worshipers, including women, and arresting a pastor and an elder. Christian sources said police put the two church leaders into separate cells and each man was beaten by a gang of five policemen. Pastor Duong Van Tuan of the house church in Hamlet 3, Ong Dinh Commune, Khoai Chau district said officers beat them in a way that did not leave marks — hard blows to the stomach.
The congregation in Hung Yen, a small but populous province that straddles the Red River 31 miles south of Hanoi, has endured harassment and attacks by police and other officials since April.
Police officers also disrupted worship services April 19, bloodying Tuan’s mouth with punches, and May 24 and 31.
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