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title="Christianity in Sudan">Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Tanzania" title="Christianity in Tanzania">Tanzania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Togo" class="mw-redirect" title="Christianity in Togo">Togo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Tunisia" class="mw-redirect" title="Christianity in Tunisia">Tunisia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Uganda" class="mw-redirect" title="Christianity in Uganda">Uganda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Zambia" title="Christianity in Zambia">Zambia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Zimbabwe" title="Christianity in Zimbabwe">Zimbabwe</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Asia" title="Christianity in Asia">Asia</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a 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title="Christianity in Saudi Arabia">Saudi Arabia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Syria" title="Christianity in Syria">Syria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Turkey" title="Christianity in Turkey">Turkey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_the_United_Arab_Emirates" title="Christianity in the United Arab Emirates">United Arab Emirates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Yemen" title="Christianity in Yemen">Yemen</a></li></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Europe" title="Christianity in Europe">Europe</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Albania" title="Christianity in Albania">Albania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Andorra" class="mw-redirect" title="Christianity in Andorra">Andorra</a></li> <li><a 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title="Christianity in Serbia">Serbia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Slovakia" class="mw-redirect" title="Christianity in Slovakia">Slovakia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Slovenia" class="mw-redirect" title="Christianity in Slovenia">Slovenia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Spain" class="mw-redirect" title="Christianity in Spain">Spain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Sweden" class="mw-redirect" title="Christianity in Sweden">Sweden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Switzerland" class="mw-redirect" title="Christianity in Switzerland">Switzerland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Christianity in Ukraine">Ukraine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Christianity in the United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Christianity in England">England</a></li> <li><a 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Suriname">Suriname</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Uruguay" class="mw-redirect" title="Christianity in Uruguay">Uruguay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christianity_in_Venezuela" class="mw-redirect" title="Christianity in Venezuela">Venezuela</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-below"> <span class="nowrap"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:P_christianity.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/P_christianity.svg/16px-P_christianity.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/P_christianity.svg/24px-P_christianity.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/P_christianity.svg/32px-P_christianity.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="360" /></a></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portal:Christianity" title="Portal:Christianity">Christianity portal</a></td></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-navbar"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239400231">.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:inline;font-size:88%;font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .navbar-collapse{float:left;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .navbar-boxtext{word-spacing:0}.mw-parser-output .navbar ul{display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;line-height:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::before{margin-right:-0.125em;content:"[ "}.mw-parser-output .navbar-brackets::after{margin-left:-0.125em;content:" ]"}.mw-parser-output .navbar li{word-spacing:-0.125em}.mw-parser-output .navbar a>span,.mw-parser-output .navbar a>abbr{text-decoration:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-mini abbr{font-variant:small-caps;border-bottom:none;text-decoration:none;cursor:inherit}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-full{font-size:114%;margin:0 7em}.mw-parser-output .navbar-ct-mini{font-size:114%;margin:0 4em}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}@media(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .navbar li a abbr{color:var(--color-base)!important}}@media print{.mw-parser-output .navbar{display:none!important}}</style><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Christianity_by_country" title="Template:Christianity by country"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Christianity_by_country" title="Template talk:Christianity by country"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Christianity_by_country" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Christianity by country"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a></b> is a minority religion in <a href="/wiki/Laos" title="Laos">Laos</a>. </p><p>In 2015, Christians in Laos numbered 200,000 to 210,000, with 50,000–60,000 thousand for Catholics and 150,000 for Protestants, based on rough estimates conducted by LFND.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBaileyHien2021307_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBaileyHien2021307-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2021, estimates showed that there were 100,000 Catholics, 200,000 evangelicals, 4,700 Methodists and 2,500 Seventh-day Adventists.<sup id="cite_ref-US_State_Dept_2022_report_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US_State_Dept_2022_report-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are three recognised Churches in Laos: the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Lao_Evangelical_Church" title="Lao Evangelical Church">Lao Evangelical Church</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Seventh-day_Adventist_Church" title="Seventh-day Adventist Church">Seventh-day Adventist Church</a>. The Laotian government repressed all activities of religion from 1975 to 1989.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBaileyHien2021296_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBaileyHien2021296-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Religious practice resumed to be permitted after the <a href="/wiki/Lao_People%27s_Revolutionary_Party" title="Lao People's Revolutionary Party">Party</a> held a congress and released two new doctrines called as chintanakan mai or <a href="/w/index.php?title=New_thinking_(Laos)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="New thinking (Laos) (page does not exist)">new thinking</a> and kanpianpeng mai or <a href="/w/index.php?title=Renovation_(Laos)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Renovation (Laos) (page does not exist)">renovation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBaileyHien2021296_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBaileyHien2021296-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMorev2002395_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorev2002395-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Laotian religious freedom began increasing in 2000s, when the government started opening the dialogue up with <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> and numerous organisations.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBaileyHien2021296_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBaileyHien2021296-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Catholicism">Catholicism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christianity_in_Laos&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Catholicism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Laos1_558.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Laos1_558.jpg/220px-Laos1_558.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Laos1_558.jpg/330px-Laos1_558.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Laos1_558.jpg/440px-Laos1_558.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption>Sacred Heart Catholic Church (<a href="/wiki/Pro-cathedral" title="Pro-cathedral">pro-cathedral</a>, built 1928), Vientiane.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:4.9.1.46.ThaSeminar.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/4.9.1.46.ThaSeminar.jpg/220px-4.9.1.46.ThaSeminar.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/4.9.1.46.ThaSeminar.jpg/330px-4.9.1.46.ThaSeminar.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/4.9.1.46.ThaSeminar.jpg/440px-4.9.1.46.ThaSeminar.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption>Catholic Training Center in Thakhek.</figcaption></figure> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_Laos" title="Catholic Church in Laos">Catholic Church in Laos</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Jean_Khams%C3%A9_Vithavong" title="Jean Khamsé Vithavong">Jean Khamsé Vithavong</a></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a> is officially recognized by the government.<sup id="cite_ref-US_State_Dept_2022_report_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US_State_Dept_2022_report-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2007 many Catholics were ethnic Vietnamese, concentrated in major urban centers and surrounding areas along the Mekong River in the central and southern regions of the country; the Catholic Church had an established presence in five of the most populous central and southern provinces, and Catholics are able to worship openly. Initially brought by Italian missionaries in seventeenth century but was left dormant for sometimes, Catholic missions entered Laos again when Laos was a French colony in late nineteenth century,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMorev199831_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMorev199831-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> especially after 1893 when French colonial government decided to protect Catholic missionaries across Laos.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBaileyHien2021296_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBaileyHien2021296-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are 100,000 Catholics in Laos in 2022,<sup id="cite_ref-US_State_Dept_2022_report_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US_State_Dept_2022_report-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> rising from 50,000 - 60,000 Laotian Catholics in 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBaileyHien2021307_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBaileyHien2021307-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2007 many Catholics were ethnic Vietnamese, concentrated in major urban centers and surrounding areas along the Mekong River in the central and southern regions of the country; the Catholic Church had an established presence in five of the most populous central and southern provinces, and Catholics are able to worship openly.<sup id="cite_ref-fr_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fr-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Catholic Church's activities were more circumscribed in the north, where there were four bishops - two located in Vientiane and others located in the cities of Thakhek and Pakse.<sup id="cite_ref-fr_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fr-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>One of the two bishops resident in Vientiane oversaw the Vientiane Diocese and was responsible for the central part of the country, while the second bishop resident in Vientiane was the Bishop of Luang Prabang - he was assigned to the northern part of the country, but while the Government did not permit him to take up his post, it did permit him to travel to visit church congregations in the north.<sup id="cite_ref-fr_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fr-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The church's property in Luang Prabang was seized after 1975, and there is no longer a parsonage in that city.<sup id="cite_ref-fr_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fr-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An informal Catholic training center in Thakhek prepared a small number of priests to serve the Catholic community while several foreign nuns temporarily serve in the Vientiane diocese.<sup id="cite_ref-fr_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fr-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are no dioceses in the country, but it is divided into four <a href="/wiki/Apostolic_vicariate" title="Apostolic vicariate">Apostolic vicariates</a>: the <a href="/wiki/Vicariate_Apostolic_of_Luang_Prabang" class="mw-redirect" title="Vicariate Apostolic of Luang Prabang">Vicariate Apostolic of Luang Prabang</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Vicariate_Apostolic_of_Paks%C3%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="Vicariate Apostolic of Paksé">Vicariate Apostolic of Paksé</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Vicariate_Apostolic_of_Savannakhet" class="mw-redirect" title="Vicariate Apostolic of Savannakhet">Vicariate Apostolic of Savannakhet</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Vicariate_Apostolic_of_Vientiane" class="mw-redirect" title="Vicariate Apostolic of Vientiane">Vicariate Apostolic of Vientiane</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Protestantism">Protestantism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christianity_in_Laos&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Protestantism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Protestantism_in_Laos" title="Protestantism in Laos">Protestantism in Laos</a></div> <p>Approximately 400 <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> congregations conduct services throughout the country for a community that has grown rapidly in the past decade. Rough estimate Protestants to number as many as 150,000.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBaileyHien2021307_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBaileyHien2021307-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other estimates put the figures at over 200,000 in 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-US_State_Dept_2022_report_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US_State_Dept_2022_report-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Laos1_606.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Laos1_606.jpg/220px-Laos1_606.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Laos1_606.jpg/330px-Laos1_606.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Laos1_606.jpg/440px-Laos1_606.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3648" data-file-height="2736" /></a><figcaption>Protestant Church, Haiphong Road, Vientiane.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:3.30.5.4.EvKirche.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/3.30.5.4.EvKirche.jpg/220px-3.30.5.4.EvKirche.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/3.30.5.4.EvKirche.jpg/330px-3.30.5.4.EvKirche.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/3.30.5.4.EvKirche.jpg/440px-3.30.5.4.EvKirche.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2736" data-file-height="3648" /></a><figcaption>Protestant Church, Luang Prabang Road, Vientiane.</figcaption></figure> <p>Many Protestants are members of ethnic <a href="/wiki/Mon%E2%80%93Khmer_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Mon–Khmer languages">Mon-Khmer groups</a>, especially the <a href="/wiki/Khmu_people" title="Khmu people">Khmu</a> in the north and the <a href="/wiki/Bru_people" title="Bru people">Brou</a> in the central provinces. Numbers of Protestants have also expanded rapidly in the <a href="/wiki/Hmong_people" title="Hmong people">Hmong</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yao_people" title="Yao people">Yao</a> communities. In urban areas, Protestantism has many lowland Lao followers. Most Protestants are concentrated in <a href="/wiki/Vientiane" title="Vientiane">Vientiane</a> Municipality, in the provinces of Vientiane, <a href="/wiki/Sainyabuli_province" title="Sainyabuli province">Sainyabuli</a>, Luang Prabang, <a href="/wiki/Xiangkhouang" title="Xiangkhouang">Xiangkhouang</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bolikhamsai_province" title="Bolikhamsai province">Bolikhamsai</a>, Savannakhet, <a href="/wiki/Champasak_province" title="Champasak province">Champassak</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Attapeu_province" title="Attapeu province">Attapeu</a>, as well as in the former <a href="/wiki/Xaisomboun_province" title="Xaisomboun province">Xaisomboun</a> Special Zone, but smaller congregations are located throughout the country. </p><p>The LFND officially recognizes only two Protestant groups – the LEC and the Seventh-day Adventist Church – and requires all non-Catholic Christian groups to operate under one of these organizations.<sup id="cite_ref-US_State_Dept_2022_report_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US_State_Dept_2022_report-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2021, estimates showed that the LEC had 200,00 members;<sup id="cite_ref-US_State_Dept_2022_report_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-US_State_Dept_2022_report-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in the same year, Seventh-day Adventists numbered slightly more than 2,500 country-wide with congregations in Vientiane Municipality as well as <a href="/wiki/Bokeo_province" title="Bokeo province">Bokeo</a>, Bolikhamsai, Champassak, Luang Prabang, and Xieng Khouang provinces. Members are mainly Chinese and <a href="/wiki/Miao_people" title="Miao people">Meos</a>. At the end of 30 June 2019 it had four churches.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Christian denominations that have some following in the country, but which are not recognized by the government, include the <a href="/wiki/Methodist" class="mw-redirect" title="Methodist">Methodists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Christ" title="Church of Christ">Church of Christ</a>, <a href="/wiki/Assemblies_of_God" title="Assemblies of God">Assemblies of God</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lutherans" class="mw-redirect" title="Lutherans">Lutherans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baptists" title="Baptists">Baptists</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses" title="Jehovah's Witnesses">Jehovah's Witnesses</a> and <a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints">the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a>. Official membership numbers are not available. </p><p>All approved Christian religious groups own properties in Vientiane Municipality, although some of their properties are not officially recognized by the Government. In addition, the Protestant LEC maintains properties in the cities of Savannakhet and Pakse. Three informal churches, one for English-speakers, one for <a href="/wiki/Korean_language" title="Korean language">Korean</a>-speakers, and one for Chinese-speakers, serve Vientiane's foreign Protestant community. </p><p>In 2005, a Protestant church in <a href="/wiki/Savannakhet_Province" class="mw-redirect" title="Savannakhet Province">Savannakhet Province</a> was closed down by the government. Among the <a href="/wiki/Hmong_people" title="Hmong people">Hmong</a> of <a href="/wiki/Laos" title="Laos">Laos</a> 20% were Christians in 1998. With around 300 congregations, Protestantism grew rapidly between 1995 and 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-liberty_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-liberty-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Freedom_of_religion">Freedom of religion</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Christianity_in_Laos&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Freedom of religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to the US government and other agencies there have been instances of the Laotian government attempting to make Christians renounce their faith, and have several times closed down Christian churches.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They also say that there are two religious prisoners in Laos, both members of the Lao Evangelical Church, and that in 2005, a church in Savannakhet Province was closed down by the government.<sup id="cite_ref-liberty_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-liberty-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2023, the country was scored 1 out of 4 for religious freedom;<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it was noted that the <a href="/wiki/Lao_People%27s_Revolutionary_Party" title="Lao People's Revolutionary Party">Lao People's Revolutionary Party</a> controls clergy training and supervision of Buddhist temples. 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