Viet Nam receives Vatican delegation
A delegation from the Vatican arrived in Viet Nam Monday for a week-long visit, Agence France-Presse reported the same day.
Meetings were scheduled with government and religious officials, as well as the Hanoi People’s Committee, which has been involved in a dispute with the Vietnamese government over seized church lands.
The visit comes a little over a year after a landmark Vatican meeting between Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Pope Benedict XVI.
As the article notes, “Vietnam has Southeast Asia’s largest Roman Catholic community after the Philippines – about six million out of a population of 86 million – but relations have long been strained between Catholics and the Communist Party.”
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Meetings were scheduled with government and religious officials, as well as the Hanoi People’s Committee, which has been involved in a dispute with the Vietnamese government over seized church lands.
The visit comes a little over a year after a landmark Vatican meeting between Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Pope Benedict XVI.
As the article notes, “Vietnam has Southeast Asia’s largest Roman Catholic community after the Philippines – about six million out of a population of 86 million – but relations have long been strained between Catholics and the Communist Party.”
For the full article, click here.
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