Tag: Vietnam

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

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

Police armed with guns and shock batons raided separate locations of the Duong Van Minh religious group

The Vietnamese first began making rubber sandals in the late 1940s, during the First Indochina War against the French

The Vietnam Committee on Human Rights tells RFA the government has ignored recommendations made three years ago

“It was pretty confronting and really troubling to see the liturgy being stopped by several officials,” said the archbishop of Hanoi

“May hatred and violence be stopped so that love and unity can develop more intensely,” said Bishop Aloisio

Father Giuse (Joseph) Trần Ngọc Thanh, OP, was killed in a knife attack in a mission area in Vietnam on Saturday, January 29

The Zen master was credited with bringing mindfulness to the West and whose reach in Buddhism was seen as second only to the Dalai Lama

Thich Nhat Hanh spent 39 years in France and advocated for religious freedom around the world