Announcing Our Dedicated-Language Website in Vietnamese

By God’s grace, Ligonier has launched its online outreach in Vietnamese. Thanks to the generous support of ministry friends such as you, vi.ligonier.org is Ligonier’s twentieth dedicated-language website, providing a new online library of biblical teaching and discipleship materials for nearly 100 million Vietnamese-speaking people worldwide.

Vietnamese is one of the most spoken languages in the world. As the national language of Vietnam, it is primarily used in Southeast Asia, but large Vietnamese-speaking communities also exist in Cambodia, the United States, and beyond.

Less than 2% of the people in Vietnam profess faith in Christ, with many evangelical Christians belonging to the H’mong, Zao, and Jarai minority tribal groups. Professing Christians in this region have long faced opposition, from Buddhist resistance in past centuries to Communist repression in recent decades. In 2018, the Law on Belief and Religion provided the Vietnamese government with additional authority to restrict or prevent religious gatherings that have not been registered. Every church must apply for registration, but approval is often denied. As a result, many congregations have experienced increased hostility and persecution, penalized for meeting after being denied registration.

Often, believers in tribal minority groups face severe persecution from both government officials and family members. Despite fierce opposition, reports of God’s people proclaiming His Word continue.

This new Vietnamese website offers an online library of trusted teaching from Dr. R.C. Sproul and other gifted teachers, including translated articles on topics relating to the Christian life, the Ligonier Statement on Christology, and historic Christian creeds. All these resources will be dispersed broadly through Ligonier’s new Vietnamese Facebook and Instagram pages.

Please join us in praying that this outreach will strengthen the church throughout Southeast Asia as Vietnamese-speaking Christians are equipped to stand firm in the gospel when faced with hostility.

With the launch of vi.ligonier.org, Ligonier is now sustaining active ministry in seventeen of the top twenty languages of the world. This online outreach also contributes to Ligonier’s aim of developing the world’s most extensive library of discipleship resources that are true to the historic Christian faith.

This global gospel outreach depends on the prayers and generosity of donors such as you. Thank you for helping to make it possible to translate, publish, and distribute trusted teaching in Vietnamese so that people in Vietnam, across Southeast Asia, and worldwide may know the holiness of God.