evidence: In September, the Ministry of Home Affairs ordered local authorities to take measures to "eliminate" the World Mission Society Church of God due to what it stated were legal violations. [...] Several religious leaders said authorities sometimes solicited bribes to facilitate approval of applications. [...] State-run media and progovernment websites sometimes equated certain Christian denominations and other religious groups, often ones associated with ethnic groups such as the Vang Chu H’mong, Ba Co Do (God Loving Us), An Dien Cuu Roi (Salvation Grace) in the Northwest Highlands, Ha Mon Catholics, Degar Protestants, Evangelical Church of Christ (Tin lanh Dang Christ) in the Central Highlands, and Khmer Krom in the southwestern region, with separatist movements, blaming them for political, economic, and social problems.