Vietnam

Pope transferred Vincent Nguyên Van Ban, currently Bishop of Ban Mê Thuôt, as the new prelate of the Diocese of Hai Phòng in Viêt Nam.

In Vietnam, a charity clinic for rural peasants at the Thai Xuan Parish in the Xuan Loc Diocese has completed 20 years of healthcare service.

A forty-one-year-old Dominican priest was killed while listening to confession in the diocese of Kon Tum on January 29.

Pham Doan Trang, jailed last month for nine years, is named among three laureates of the 2022 Martin Ennals Award

A Vietnamese monk who promoted mindfulness in the Western world died at Từ Hiếu Pagoda, the Buddhist temple in Hue, Vietnam on Jan 22. He was 95.

An ethnic Hmong catechist from Phinh Ho Parish in Vietnam’s Yen Bai province has been kept in jail for spreading the Catholic faith among villagers, said a report by the Aid to the Church in Need.

The largest commercial city in southern Vietnam plans to allow religious places and inessential services to reopen with small groups as it has recorded no new Covid-19 infections for two weeks.

The Diocese of Xuan Loc in Vietnam marked “World Day of the Poor” at The Peace College Xuan Loc with Bishop Joseph Dinh Duc Dao.

Bishop Peter Kham of My Tho in Vietnam warned against what he described as the "viruses" of lies and violence that threaten the world amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Responding to the invitation of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Vietnam to help people affected by the coronavirus pandemic, the parish of Hai Duong set up a "Rice ATM" to facilitate the distribution of rice to those in need.