Tag: Vietnam

The sudden departure is a highly unusual move in communist Vietnam, where political changes are normally carefully orchestrated

The country has been included on a State Department watch list for violating religious freedom

Thu, 74, founder of the An Dan Dai Dao religious group, was serving a life sentence in Gia Trung Detention Center

According to parish priest Joseph Nguyen Van Thoan, the land has been owned by the Church for more than 100 years

Joseph Bui Cong Trac will be the second auxiliary bishop chosen by the Vatican after Louis Nguyen Anh Tuan was appointed in 2017

Local authorities occupied the land in 1972 and the parish priest said there have been several attempts by the Church to secure its return

The Evangelical Church of Christ’s claims came just ahead of Wednesday’s U.S.-Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue

Bishop-elect Tran, 56, was 9 years old when he and his family left South Vietnam on a barge in Saigon in April 1975

Vietnam was one rank below Russia, which plunged down the list from last year because of war in Ukraine

More than 300,000 people in Vietnam hunkered down in shelters overnight