HANOI, May 16 (Compass Direct News) – Local officials in Lao Cai province have confiscated the land and home of a former opium addict because of his phenomenal success as an evangelist, local Christian sources said.
Sua Yinh Siong of Lau Chai village, in Sapa district in the Northwest Mountainous Region, had long been a desperate opium addict, leading to destitution for him and his family. In 2004, after hearing a Firm Foundation broadcast over FEBC radio in his own Hmong language and deciding to follow Christ, he was able to quit his debilitating opium addiction in astonishingly short order with God’s help, he said.
Siong broke completely from his animistic past, taking down paraphernalia for ancestor worship and other spirit-related articles and burning them. His joy over his liberation soon spread to others, and eventually more than 200 families in Sapa district also decided to follow Christ....